Server-Side Latency Spikes at the Start of Races

Did a trace for all 3 burst races. The first one didn't have any of the usual lag, but i forgot to copy to clipboard before the 2nd race. IIRC the Wrst was about 280.


#1: w/o Firefox and w/o Google Drive (280 as i said)


#2: w/ Firefox and w/ Google Drive (some gdrive files updating)
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| WinMTR statistics |
| Host - % | Sent | Recv | Best | Avrg | Wrst | Last |
|------------------------------------------------|------|------|------|------|------|------|
| home.Home - 0 | 746 | 746 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 10.31.176.1 - 0 | 746 | 746 | 38 | 62 | 731 | 39 |
| STTLWAWBCI01.bb.telus.com - 0 | 746 | 746 | 41 | 57 | 726 | 43 |
| te1-5.bbr01.wb01.sea01.networklayer.com - 0 | 746 | 746 | 42 | 59 | 739 | 45 |
| ae0.bbr01.cs01.den01.networklayer.com - 0 | 746 | 746 | 68 | 84 | 775 | 72 |
| ae12.bbr02.eq01.dal03.networklayer.com - 0 | 746 | 746 | 81 | 98 | 794 | 83 |
| ae1.dar02.sr01.dal01.networklayer.com - 0 | 746 | 746 | 81 | 98 | 795 | 85 |
| po2.fcr05.sr06.dal01.networklayer.com - 0 | 746 | 746 | 82 | 99 | 762 | 84 |
| 14.2c.c0ad.ip4.static.sl-reverse.com - 0 | 746 | 746 | 81 | 97 | 789 | 84 |
|________________________________________________|______|______|______|______|______|______|
WinMTR v0.92 GPL V2 by Appnor MSP - Fully Managed Hosting & Cloud Provider


#3: w/ Firefox (2 active tabs on pathofexile.com), w/o Google Drive
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| WinMTR statistics |
| Host - % | Sent | Recv | Best | Avrg | Wrst | Last |
|------------------------------------------------|------|------|------|------|------|------|
| home.Home - 0 | 750 | 750 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 10.31.176.1 - 0 | 750 | 750 | 38 | 49 | 208 | 57 |
| STTLWAWBCI01.bb.telus.com - 0 | 750 | 750 | 41 | 43 | 57 | 42 |
| te1-5.bbr01.wb01.sea01.networklayer.com - 0 | 750 | 750 | 42 | 44 | 139 | 45 |
| ae0.bbr01.cs01.den01.networklayer.com - 0 | 750 | 750 | 68 | 70 | 128 | 69 |
| ae12.bbr02.eq01.dal03.networklayer.com - 0 | 750 | 750 | 81 | 84 | 101 | 83 |
| ae1.dar02.sr01.dal01.networklayer.com - 0 | 750 | 750 | 81 | 83 | 106 | 83 |
| po2.fcr05.sr06.dal01.networklayer.com - 0 | 750 | 750 | 82 | 85 | 226 | 84 |
| 14.2c.c0ad.ip4.static.sl-reverse.com - 0 | 750 | 750 | 81 | 83 | 94 | 83 |
|________________________________________________|______|______|______|______|______|______|
WinMTR v0.92 GPL V2 by Appnor MSP - Fully Managed Hosting & Cloud Provider
SC: 95 97 93 96 100 93 94 93 94 95 96 97 94 93 94
HC RIP: 94 96
Character archive: view-thread/963707
Last edited by unsane on Nov 20, 2015, 1:59:58 PM

Okay here is the 2nd hop from your 2nd run -

| 10.31.176.1 - 0 | 746 | 746 | 38 | 62 | 731 | 39 |

The number highlighted is the worst response to that hop. I'd normally ignore it if it was only 1 hop, but it carries forward through the rest of the hops.

This means that you are getting spikes in latency before you even leave your providers network.

This is from your 3rd run -
| 10.31.176.1 - 0 | 750 | 750 | 38 | 49 | 208 | 57 |

That 208 is a spike that you might be concerned about, but by the end:

| 14.2c.c0ad.ip4.static.sl-reverse.com - 0 | 750 | 750 | 81 | 83 | 94 | 83 |

There is no large spike, so I wouldn't be worried about it. Was the 3rd run more stable for the race for you? It's possible the Google drive was the problem on the 2nd run. Typically, you will run out of available speed on upload much quicker than on download. If that's the case PoE would have suffered as a result.

For the number of hops you have, your overall response times seem high. Are you on a cell or wireless network? It's still in a playable range, I'm just curious.
"I would have listened... I would have understood!" - Scion

Have you removed Asus ROG/GameFirst yet?
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MaxTheLimit wrote:
Was the 3rd run more stable for the race for you? It's possible the Google drive was the problem on the 2nd run. Typically, you will run out of available speed on upload much quicker than on download. If that's the case PoE would have suffered as a result.

IIRC the 3rd run was similar to the first, pretty smooth. While it seems that GDrive is the problem i'm pretty sure i tested multiple times w/ GDrive off and was always getting the issue regardless. Yet here today not. I'll do some more tests in non-burst races and see.

"
MaxTheLimit wrote:
For the number of hops you have, your overall response times seem high. Are you on a cell or wireless network? It's still in a playable range, I'm just curious.

I hover around 60 ping in-game. Not on cell or wireless, have Dry DSL.
SC: 95 97 93 96 100 93 94 93 94 95 96 97 94 93 94
HC RIP: 94 96
Character archive: view-thread/963707
"
unsane wrote:
I hover around 60 ping in-game. Not on cell or wireless, have Dry DSL.

It's not that there is anything wrong. It's just higher than I've usually seen from a hardwired connection. I guess it could be something as simple as fastpath versus interleve DSL service.

Keep us updated on tests. Maybe the G drive is a red herring and the server is having intermittent issues that just didn't show up today.
"I would have listened... I would have understood!" - Scion

Have you removed Asus ROG/GameFirst yet?
This race (Soulthirst) didn't really have the start of instance rubberbanding... Had G Drive off. Starting to seem like G Drive might have been the issue after all, but that's so bizarre. Was certain i was getting the rubberbanding every race regardless of G Drive.


|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| WinMTR statistics |
| Host - % | Sent | Recv | Best | Avrg | Wrst | Last |
|------------------------------------------------|------|------|------|------|------|------|
| home.Home - 0 | 4504 | 4504 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 10.31.176.1 - 0 | 4502 | 4502 | 37 | 48 | 276 | 97 |
| STTLWAWBCI01.bb.telus.com - 0 | 4502 | 4502 | 41 | 42 | 65 | 42 |
| te1-5.bbr01.wb01.sea01.networklayer.com - 0 | 4502 | 4502 | 41 | 43 | 116 | 43 |
| ae0.bbr01.cs01.den01.networklayer.com - 1 | 4499 | 4498 | 68 | 69 | 199 | 70 |
| ae12.bbr02.eq01.dal03.networklayer.com - 0 | 4502 | 4502 | 81 | 83 | 181 | 84 |
| ae1.dar02.sr01.dal01.networklayer.com - 0 | 4502 | 4502 | 81 | 83 | 116 | 84 |
| po2.fcr05.sr06.dal01.networklayer.com - 0 | 4502 | 4502 | 82 | 85 | 278 | 83 |
| 14.2c.c0ad.ip4.static.sl-reverse.com - 0 | 4502 | 4502 | 81 | 82 | 95 | 82 |
|________________________________________________|______|______|______|______|______|______|
WinMTR v0.92 GPL V2 by Appnor MSP - Fully Managed Hosting & Cloud Provider
SC: 95 97 93 96 100 93 94 93 94 95 96 97 94 93 94
HC RIP: 94 96
Character archive: view-thread/963707
Last edited by unsane on Nov 20, 2015, 10:19:16 PM

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