unplayable lag with time warner's road runner lite
ven, 10/22/2010 - 09:05
Time Warner offers a cable broadband package called 'Road Runner Lite' which is a little cheaper than the standard cable internet from them but has the speed capped at something like 768kbps down/128kbps up, like most flavors of DSL
this has been just fine to me for most of my online gaming (i play a lot of team fortress 2) but it doesn't seem to be enough for Spiral Knights since i end up with a 5-second delay while I'm playing
my neighbor is paying $X/month for the full service (also through time warner cable), and if i switch to his (unsecure) wireless it plays just fine, smooth as you please
what's the official internet speed requirement for spiral knights? is my problem the up or the down? will i need to stop being a pansy and cough up the extra $5/month to more than double my bandwidth?
ven, 10/22/2010 - 13:21
#2
I put in a request to time
I put in a request to time warner this morning to up my bandwidth to their normal 3mbps service thinking that it'd take a couple days for them to get around to it and they actually ALREADY DID IT, so even if their product is lousy their response times are amazing
unfortunately this now makes me completely useless for trying to troubleshoot this issue since it's all working great now, sorry :( i didn't do anything to my router or my PC during this process so my finger is still pointed squarely at not having a big enough pipe
The delay was totally consistent as I was playing the game (not lag 'spikes', just a smooth 'hit bush/walk around/five second wait/bush disappears'), and the networking tab in task manager showed a near-constant level of usage (which was only about 5% of the wireless adapter's max bandwidth)
ven, 10/22/2010 - 18:03
#3
Alright
Well I'm glad you got it working! That would certainly point at an issue with that bandwidth. I do know of others at that speed that doesn't have those issues though.
So I'm curious if anyone else has this problem at this or around this bandwidth?
In the example above, 5 second delay between swinging and the bush squishing is no fun, mine happens while the swing is still in progress, though a bit slower than that will likely work as well.
lun, 10/25/2010 - 19:09
#4
I would like to add to this,
I would like to add to this, that my internet right now is slower than dial-up and I still have minimal lag.
Breaking things, attacking monsters and all that are all pretty much instant.
My current gripe is with shields, they're the only thing that don't block instantly when I activate them. But that happened even when my internet was at full speed, so maybe the 1~2 second delay I get when blocking attacks is just a part of the shield.
ven, 10/29/2010 - 03:07
#5
Yo Pos.
You wanted to know if
Yo Pos.
You wanted to know if other people had trouble at this bandwidth.
I also have Roadrunner Lite 768kpbs down/128kbps up internet.
I can play fine when it's just me using the connection, and I'm not doing anything else with the connection. However, I am on a home network with another computer for the rest of my family, and any time then even browse the web I have massive lag problems.
Now, it's not just your normal sort of lag where you jump around a bit and then settle back to playing normally once they're done using the connection. No, once I start lagging, I'm unable to continue playing and have to quit the game because for some reason SK is unable to pick up where it left off. I can still slash things, but it will take about 5 seconds between slashing and seeing the effects.
Do you have any ideas why I'm unable to stop lagging once it starts?
-Burninator
mar, 11/09/2010 - 17:11
#6
Since I have the same issue
Since I have the same issue (and I suspect anyone with limited upstream bandwidth does), here's a (rather annoying, but...) workaround to avoid having to quit and rejoin:
Kill SK (for Windows users, ctrl-alt-delete and then find "javaw.exe" in the process list -> end process) and reclient/reconnect. This way you stay in whatever gate level you're in and don't lose progress/energy/heat etc there.
I'm curious if anyone else has this same bandwidth and what experience they have?
Also Benemas there is also the small chance it could be your own wireless router, try and see if using a cable instead will make a difference, maybe try it briefly directly connected via a cable to the cable modem if it's separate from your wireless router. And also you could try to power cycle your modem and/or router as well to see if this makes a difference.
How frequent is that 5 second delay?
Try and run both a virus scanner and a spyware scanner to rule out something eating your bandwidth.