![]() Then when swtor moved the west coast servers to the east coast, I had to deal with terrible routing across the different internet backbone of the US just to get to the servers.Īs someone who has a IT technical background and experience, I thought I knew a fair bit till I started trying to trouble shoot half the lag issues this game has thrown my way for 10+ years. Not only because of the distance, but also because I live in what could be classified as rural Australia (not in a main city). I live in Australia and I have had to deal with more lag issues than the majority of players still playing swtor. If people aren’t willing to at least test to rule out other issues, then they are their own worse enemies. And once they understand what they are seeing, they acknowledge that’s it’s not Bioware. Most of the people I have dealings with who have problems are willing to test with ping plotter as a starting point to find out what’s going on. ![]() Both in private msgs and in forums posts. I’m constantly trying to help people understand the lag issue they might be having. So it should say something when someone as critical of Bioware as myself tells you that 99% of the time it’s not the servers or Biowares fault when players have these lag problems. If you follow any of my posts on this forum you will know I’m not a bioware white knight or anything like that. If that was the case we would not have so many complaints of lag as we do. Help is offered to those who help themselves. You'll be able to see live statistics and information on what is happening. ![]() You can then enter the swtor server ip you are connected to and it will run a live trace route, showing all the connection hops along the way. This is why you have to run this each time if you want to get an accurate read on the server ping. It usually has an ip like this - 159.153.65.233 or 159.153.65.232īut because it changes each time you login it will be different. It will show you the 2 swtor connections to the server IP (I usually have the netstat command saved in a txt file for notepad and just copy and paste it into the command prompt) Type this command into the command shell after you have opened it. (Depending on which Windows you have, there are different ways to run it in Administrator mode, so do a quick Google search on how too for your windows version) Now run command prompt in Administrator mode To find out the server IP (it changes everytime you log in now) you need start swtor and then go back to your Windows desktop. Install it so you can look at the hops to the server I still blame it on cheap servers as they are trying to save money. The point here is that most companies are well aware of the issues and wait until they absolutely have to fix it before they do. I used wireshark for an old company I worked for to find an issue in chicago which slowed our connection bandwidth down to a crawl, only happened around five or at the busiest time in after noon and actually told them exactly where the issue was.it took them six months before the switch finally gave out before they pushed to get it replaced. I do have a gaming machine built by me like the hundred other ones i build, if i buy a game and play it online and discover issues with a bad connection which really hurts my and hundreds others game play then who is it really hurting? So should I do my own investigation to discover the problems location? I am not going to waste my time figuring out where an issue is because even when I do is there a solution? Call up so and so at a switch and tell them they have a bad switch or hub?
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