On 25 Aug, John Lange wrote:
My question for the group is, is anyone else experiencing this problems? I'm trying to determine how wide spread this is before attempting to escalate the issue.
I just wanted to add a "me too". Strangely enough, I started playing some UT2004 again (after a 6 month absence) on the weekend and immediately noticed horrendous lag/jitter. It was really bad on the weekend but was a fair bit better yesterday and today.
It wasn't just a jitter issue -- Shaw was dropping packets all over the place too, based on my ping tests.
I use cricket for traffic monitoring and it's pretty clear packet loss and latency went to hell in the past week. The graphs represent traffic between 2 Shaw Extreme modems, one in Chazwood, one on Regent.
http://tecnopolis.ca/transient/latency.gif http://tecnopolis.ca/transient/loss.gif
Let us know how it goes with Shaw... the "Extreme" service is supposed to be FOR gamers and is advertised as having low latency, etc.
I would strongly urge anyone who is having issues with Shaw to call and file a ticket. So far they don't appear to be doing anything to resolve the problem.
John
On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 11:39 -0500, Trevor Cordes wrote:
On 25 Aug, John Lange wrote:
My question for the group is, is anyone else experiencing this problems? I'm trying to determine how wide spread this is before attempting to escalate the issue.
I just wanted to add a "me too". Strangely enough, I started playing some UT2004 again (after a 6 month absence) on the weekend and immediately noticed horrendous lag/jitter. It was really bad on the weekend but was a fair bit better yesterday and today.
It wasn't just a jitter issue -- Shaw was dropping packets all over the place too, based on my ping tests.
I use cricket for traffic monitoring and it's pretty clear packet loss and latency went to hell in the past week. The graphs represent traffic between 2 Shaw Extreme modems, one in Chazwood, one on Regent.
http://tecnopolis.ca/transient/latency.gif http://tecnopolis.ca/transient/loss.gif
Let us know how it goes with Shaw... the "Extreme" service is supposed to be FOR gamers and is advertised as having low latency, etc.
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