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Help! My Game server is laggy !

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vmarkx3

Member
My setup

AMD 1600+ XP
EPOX 8K3A MB
512 MEGS DDRAM PC2100
1.5/768 Cable connection (Charter pipeline)
Linksys Router
WINXP (internal firewall: OFF)

Usually run ZONEALARM, but turn it off when playing.

The problem:

I have no problems playing Dungeon Siege on other servers, but when I tried to setup a game server everyone that joins has some major lag problems.

Did the following at DSLreports.com:
Tweak Test: (RWIN=20320(close to it))
Line Quality: (NO problems from East or West coast)
Speed Test: always get around 1472/711

Router setup:
Port forwarding setup:

2300 UDP - Primary ZoneMatch Port.
6073 UDP
2302-2400 UDP - Secondary: Inbound
2302-2400 UDP - Secondary: Outbound

Used DMZ also

Both method allow users to connect to my server, but they get lag. (unplayable amount)

Yesterday, someone only 200 miles away from me was having lag on my game server. I dropped the server and joined someone server, had no lag, then found out there on a 128K ISDN connection from POLAND!! (I am in BOSTON AREA) I PINGED them directly and was getting 130-150ms !!

I have a feeling its either WINXP or Router??
 
Game servers require high speed connections. HIGH HIGH Speed, not the residentional "high speed". You can probably hold 4 people max without lag and that are close to you (geographically) because your cable has 786kbps upload (~98KB). Most of the servers you play on are probably t1 and above.

Oh yea I forgot. I haven't played this game but if it's usually people who host the games and theres no dedicated servers (like Rogue spear and Rainbow six), then it all depends on the people that connect to you and how many you can hold with no lag. You can probably hold more people that have your ISP than people from around the world.
 
According to the manufacture of DS, if you have a 56K connection, you can have 4 users in total playing on your server. Also max PING required is 200ms, not exactly strick.
 
MORE INFO:

Linksys firmware: 1.42.7, Apr 02 2002 (lastest)
Tweak Test:

http://monitor.dslreports.com/tweak/block:1495644?service=cable&speed=1500&os=winXP&via=normal

Line Quality:

http://www.dslreports.com/quality/nil/828923


1. Route Trace to yahoo.com:

NeoTrace Trace Version 3.25 Results
Target: www.yahoo.com
Date: 8/5/2002 (Monday), 5:41:00 PM
Nodes: 26


Node Data
Node Net Reg IP Address Location Node Name
1 - - XXXX 42.758N, 71.468W ll
2 1 - 10.85.0.1 Unknown
3 2 1 66.189.0.65 Unknown 065-0-189-66.wo.cpe.charter-ne.com
4 2 1 66.189.0.2 Unknown 002-0-189-66.wo.cpe.charter-ne.com
5 2 1 66.189.0.230 Unknown 230-0-189-66.wo.cpe.charter-ne.com
6 3 - 12.125.39.13 Unknown
7 3 2 12.123.40.102 Unknown gbr2-p70.cb1ma.ip.att.net
8 3 2 12.122.11.193 Unknown tbr1-p013401.cb1ma.ip.att.net
9 3 2 12.122.10.22 40.583N, 74.617W tbr2-p013701.n54ny.ip.att.net
10 3 2 12.122.11.22 40.583N, 74.617W gbr2-p20.n54ny.ip.att.net
11 3 2 12.123.1.133 40.583N, 74.617W gar1-p370.n54ny.ip.att.net
12 4 3 206.24.193.129 Unknown acr2-so-2-1-0-0.newyork.cw.net
13 5 3 208.172.50.61 Boston acr1-loopback.boston.cw.net
14 5 4 208.172.51.202 Unknown ibr02-p5-0.wlhm01.exodus.net
15 6 4 64.14.70.67 Unknown bbr01-g2-0.wlhm01.exodus.net
16 7 4 206.79.9.105 Unknown bbr01-p1-0.wlhm03.exodus.net
17 8 4 66.37.192.4 Unknown bbr02-g2-0.wlhm03.exodus.net
18 9 4 209.1.169.65 Jersey City bbr01-p2-0.jrcy01.exodus.net
19 10 4 216.32.223.130 Jersey City bbr02-g5-0.jrcy01.exodus.net
20 10 4 216.32.132.14 Unknown bbr01-p6-0.whkn01.exodus.net
21 10 4 216.35.65.84 Unknown bbr02-g5-0.whkn01.exodus.net
22 10 4 216.32.132.193 Unknown bbr01-p0-0.stng01.exodus.net
23 10 4 216.33.99.83 Unknown dcr01-g5-0.stng01.exodus.net
24 10 4 216.33.98.10 Unknown csr22-ve242.stng01.exodus.net
25 10 - 216.35.210.126 Unknown
26 11 5 64.58.76.225 Sunnyvale w4.dcx.yahoo.com


Packet Data
Node High Low Avg Tot Lost
1 0 0 0 1 0
2 43 16 18 56 0
3 23 17 18 56 0
4 28 17 18 56 0
5 26 17 19 56 0
6 24 19 19 56 0
7 32 19 19 56 0
8 26 18 18 56 0
9 70 24 25 56 0
10 35 24 25 56 0
11 34 24 24 56 0
12 71 24 25 56 0
13 48 29 31 56 0
14 40 30 31 56 0
15 58 30 34 56 0
16 55 30 32 56 0
17 61 30 31 56 0
18 40 30 33 56 0
19 58 30 33 56 0
20 54 30 32 56 0
21 116 30 32 56 0
22 72 36 39 56 0
23 53 36 38 56 0
24 160 36 42 56 0
25 210 36 37 56 0
26 46 36 38 56 0


2. Speed test (ec) 1413/711 kbps

3. Q.How many people before gets laggy? A. Anyone who joins, even if its only 1 person.

4. Q. Bypass HUB A. I'll try this soon
 
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