Problem solved. Lag on Skial servers

[Joeman]

This is a persistent problem now... Whenever the player count on the EU servers goes over 16, my ping increases by a significant amount.. e.g. Before everyone joins, my ping will average 40. After everyone joins, it never goes below 130! This, is only happening on the skial EU servers- I have no problems on lotusclan etc... But in terms of playability, I may aswell be playing on the NY servers with this ping.

Please help.

 

[takethepants]

Can you try pinging one the servers directly through the command prompt? Never trust the ping in the server browser. Also, I think the EU servers are in France, so it looks like you're getting low ping on a UK server, so they're farther away too

 

[Joeman]

ping times:
72 ms : Mr.Mafia
71 ms : Derpy Hooves
81 ms : eeisenkrein
104 ms : mati_0610
85 ms : d-fens
87 ms : Maršál SadistickyCZ
216 ms : juhokorhonen2
123 ms : papy
444 ms : chuba
110 ms : mattymace
170 ms : BRASSIE
159 ms : Synks
342 ms : Hirius123
57 ms : 4SS_4SS_1N
64 ms : beastynature
183 ms : Sicarius
91 ms : H.S.A.S.
87 ms : Maršál DvořinovskýCZ
246 ms : nicksbrownie
85 ms : EL Gaucho
79 ms : nielssonicman
87 ms : Master Chief
68 ms : Cedk06
105 ms : Pan Krakers

 

[Joeman]

ping times:
72 ms : Mr.Mafia
71 ms : Derpy Hooves
81 ms : eeisenkrein
104 ms : mati_0610
85 ms : d-fens
87 ms : Maršál SadistickyCZ
216 ms : juhokorhonen2
123 ms : papy
444 ms : chuba
110 ms : mattymace
170 ms : BRASSIE
159 ms : Synks
342 ms : Hirius123
57 ms : 4SS_4SS_1N
64 ms : beastynature
183 ms : Sicarius
91 ms : H.S.A.S.
87 ms : Maršál DvořinovskýCZ
246 ms : nicksbrownie
85 ms : EL Gaucho
79 ms : nielssonicman
87 ms : Master Chief
68 ms : Cedk06
105 ms : Pan Krakers

There actually are all quite high...

Notice mattymace, hes from britain too...

 

[takethepants]

There actually are all quite high...

Notice mattymace, hes from britain too...

These aren't that high and if you're both from Britain I would suspect it's just an ISP or distance thing since there are others with lower ping. A lot of those others are probably connecting from Russia, India, etc.

 

[Master Chief]

Hi.I have problem with ping on this server as well.But this wasn't happening before.Earlier the ping was quite good,but now...It starting to bug me.It says that ping is 45,but it lags like it's 87.So Skial,do something!!!!!!

 

[Ninja_DC]

Have a look at this
http://p19.smokeping.ovh.net/ovh-server-statistics/show.cgi?filter=uk;target=EU.AS2856

It's showing consistently 100ms ping spikes from the UK to France on mostly BT and Virgin lines.

You have to wait for OVH to accommodation for the increased traffic load on these routes.
Consequently Skial EU servers are running off OVH dedicated servers.
http://www.ovh.co.uk/

 

[Joeman]

So its the server operator's problem then. Is there nothing you can do in the meantime?