[RTC List] Bandwidth bottlenecks & online gaming

[Sean Connors]

Hi Kevin,

For what it is worth, my tracert to worldofwarcraft.com was essentially the same:

 14   165 ms   166 ms   159 ms  mdf001c7613r0003-gig-10-1.lax1.attens.net [12.12
9.193.242]
 15     *        *        *     Request timed out.
...
 30     *        *        *     Request timed out.

Trace complete.

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Kevin Nelson 
  To: 'Redwood Tech' 
  Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2008 7:40 PM
  Subject: [RTC List] Bandwidth bottlenecks & online gaming


  I'm on AT&T DSL. My son keeps having problems with his World Of Warcraft account lagging. That has me wondering:

   

  How demanding are these games on our overall internet capacity?

  How often is that pipe hitting maximum capacity? (Does anybody know?)

   

  His friends who were on SuddenLink eventually left it, because game-related lags were next to impossible to tolerate. 

   

  When I did a tracert on worldofwarcraft.com, the network times out around a network called:  

   

  11    74 ms    75 ms   129 ms  mdf001c7613r0003-gig-10-1.lax1.attens.net [12.129.193.242]

  12     *        *        *     Request timed out.

  .

  30     *        *        *     Request timed out.

  Trace complete.

   

  Yet ventrilo.com, another online service my son uses simultaneously to running WOW, doesn't experience those timeouts.

   

  So comes another question: Is the issue not a local one, but rather one probably located somewhere around the Los Angeles airport?

   

  Thanks,

  Kevin Nelson



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