Online Gaming and Latency

A couple of us here (my son and I) like to play World of Warcraft.
I'm using a MBP 2.4G with 4G ram and OS 10.5.6
My son uses a MDD Dual 1G with 2G ram and OS 10.5.6 and an ATI 9800 Pro video card.
My network is a combination wired/wireless. When everything is running well I'm happily playing wirelessly. I have been hard wired since the latency issue started in order to take the wireless out of the troubleshooting.
I have done all the normal troubleshooting I can come up with Including:
-Reboot router (Actiontec GT701-WG) and verified current firmware. (Reboot at least daily)
-Run permission repair, cache cleaning, maint scripts, including Disk Warrior
-Have flushed DNS cache
-Have done various game specific tasks - verifies my game files are good
-Have spoken with my ISP and, well, I'm not completely ignorant, but the 'speak' he uses with me is so far over my head, I can't imagine what it must sound like to someone more ignorant than me.
-I've been emailing game support without resolution 'yet'.
-I've been running traceroutes off and on all day everyday
Here is an example traceroute, note hops 8 and 9:
+1110PM 060609 BAD!!!!! 6000ms latency+
+Traceroute has started ...+
+traceroute to 12.129.224.112 (12.129.224.112), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets+
+1 * * *+
+2 65.75.196.129 (65.75.196.129) 45.632 ms 44.771 ms 43.231 ms+
+3 ip-colo-rtr0-todsl.ipinc.net (65.75.192.1) 44.261 ms 43.712 ms 43.333 ms+
+4 207.170.194.201 (207.170.194.201) 43.826 ms 42.971 ms 43.682 ms+
+5 peer-03-so-0-0-0-0.sttl.twtelecom.net (66.192.248.25) 46.688 ms 47.785 ms 46.171 ms+
+6 ge1-1-1-1000M.ar4.SEA1.gblx.net (67.17.109.249) 47.487 ms 46.661 ms 47.153 ms+
+7 192.205.33.237 (192.205.33.237) 47.983 ms 192.205.34.93 (192.205.34.93) 47.169 ms 192.205.33.237 (192.205.33.237) 47.492 ms+
+8 cr2.st6wa.ip.att.net (12.122.146.178) 79.614 ms * 1175.552 ms+
+9 * * cr1.sffca.ip.att.net (12.122.28.33) 409.047 ms+
+10 cr1.la2ca.ip.att.net (12.122.3.122) 77.428 ms 77.929 ms 80.495 ms+
+11 gar5.la2ca.ip.att.net (12.122.128.25) 88.029 ms 76.059 ms 76.741 ms+
+12 12.122.255.74 (12.122.255.74) 77.464 ms 76.538 ms 77.751 ms+
+13 mdf001c7613r0003-gig-10-1.lax1.attens.net (12.129.193.242) 76.843 ms 77.544 ms 77.568 ms+
+14 * *+
The traceroutes show very bad hops somewhere in the line 90% of the time. Sometimes it is hop 2, sometimes in hop 13 and sometimes an in between hop. Occasionally I get a good traceroute, but it seems if I run two back to back one of them is bad.
Bottom line at the moment is .... I'm feeling like the monkey in the middle. ISP pointing at WoW and WoW pointing at ISP.
Any suggestions please. I'm at my limit concerning my knowledge.

Hello Bradley,
In a learning curve here, entered a few of the terminal commands with varying results - some commands not found others 'apparently' functioning. which and which mtr were both 'command not found' while locate mtr produced a list that I removed results which I could see weren't relevant (stuff regarding displays and other apps unrelated). How am I doing? I found a link I'[ll have to go back and have a look regarding 'extensive help' for mtr. I have another 'mentor' helping me with FrameSeer to get to a relevant server to inspect. Apparently the server I have been tracing to is a login server and not a game server.
mbp:~ buz$ sudo mtr
sudo: mtr: command not found
mbp:~ buz$ which mtr
mbp:~ buz$ locate mtr
/Developer/Makefiles/CoreOS/ReleaseControl/mtree
/Developer/Makefiles/CoreOS/ReleaseControl/mtree/BSD.include.dist
/Developer/Makefiles/CoreOS/ReleaseControl/mtree/BSD.local.dist
/Developer/Makefiles/CoreOS/ReleaseControl/mtree/BSD.release.dist
/Developer/Makefiles/CoreOS/ReleaseControl/mtree/BSD.root.dist
/Developer/Makefiles/CoreOS/ReleaseControl/mtree/BSD.usr.dist
/Developer/Makefiles/CoreOS/ReleaseControl/mtree/BSD.var.dist
/Developer/Makefiles/CoreOS/ReleaseControl/mtree/BSD.x11.dist
/Developer/Makefiles/CoreOS/ReleaseControl/mtree/Darwin.root.dist
/Developer/Makefiles/CoreOS/ReleaseControl/mtree/Darwin.usr.dist
/Developer/Makefiles/CoreOS/ReleaseControl/mtree/Darwin.var.dist
/Developer/Makefiles/CoreOS/ReleaseControl/mtree/README
/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/Kernel.framework/Versi ons/A/Headers/i386/mtrr.h
/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/Kernel.framework/Versio ns/A/Headers/i386/mtrr.h
/System/Library/Frameworks/Kernel.framework/Versions/A/Headers/i386/mtrr.h
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/Extras/lib/python/numpy /random/mtrand.so
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/Extras/lib/python/wx-2. 8-mac-unicode/wx/lib/customtreectrl.py
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/Extras/lib/python/wx-2. 8-mac-unicode/wx/lib/customtreectrl.pyc
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/share/ri/1.8/system/F ileUtils/rmtree-i.yaml
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/share/ri/1.8/system/P athname/rmtree-i.yaml
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CoreUI.framework/Versions/A/Resources/AquaUI.b undle/Contents/Resources/resizesmtranslucent.png
/usr/sbin/mtree
/usr/share/man/man8/mtree.8
/usr/share/man/man8/mtree.8.gz
/usr/share/zsh/4.2.3/functions/_mtr
/usr/share/zsh/4.3.4/functions/_mtr
mbp:~ buz$ sudo mtr www.yahoo.com
sudo: mtr: command not found
mbp:~ buz$ mtr www.yahoo.com
-bash: mtr: command not found
mbp:~ buz$ traceroute www.yahoo.com
traceroute to www-real.wa1.b.yahoo.com (209.131.36.158), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 * * *
2 65.75.196.129 (65.75.196.129) 94.666 ms 92.091 ms 62.777 ms
3 ip-colo-rtr0-todsl.ipinc.net (65.75.192.1) 43.509 ms 43.279 ms 43.465 ms
4 207.170.194.201 (207.170.194.201) 43.390 ms 43.179 ms 43.565 ms
5 peer-02-so-0-0-0-0.palo.twtelecom.net (64.129.248.19) 61.005 ms 58.430 ms 58.572 ms
6 ae1-p140.msr1.sp1.yahoo.com (216.115.107.53) 58.590 ms ae0-p150.msr2.sp1.yahoo.com (216.115.107.73) 58.254 ms ae1-p140.msr1.sp1.yahoo.com (216.115.107.53) 59.021 ms
7 te-9-1.bas-a2.sp1.yahoo.com (209.131.32.23) 59.692 ms te-8-1.bas-a1.sp1.yahoo.com (209.131.32.17) 59.194 ms te-9-1.bas-a2.sp1.yahoo.com (209.131.32.23) 59.471 ms
8 * * *
^C
mbp:~ buz$

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~The TRACEROUTES AND PATHPINGS ARE FROM A HARDWIRED CONNECTION~
Links:
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https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/performing-a-traceroute
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Enough of the chat, i will link couple trace routes and path pings.
Traceroute(Around June):
Tracing route to 63.240.161.189 over a maximum of 30 hops
1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms Wireless_Broadband_Router.home [192.168.1.1]
2     7 ms     7 ms     7 ms L100.LSANCA-VFTTP-70.verizon-gni.net [96.229.205.1]
3    11 ms    12 ms    12 ms G0-14-1-4.LSANCA-LCR-21.verizon-gni.net [130.81.189.240]
4    12 ms     9 ms    10 ms so-4-1-0-0.LAX01-BB-RTR1.verizon-gni.net [130.81.151.246]
5    10 ms     *       10 ms 0.xe-3-0-0.BR3.LAX15.ALTER.NET [152.63.114.241]
6     9 ms    10 ms     9 ms 192.205.35.161
7    62 ms     *       66 ms cr1.la2ca.ip.att.net [12.122.82.246]
8    63 ms     *       63 ms cr1.slkut.ip.att.net [12.122.30.29]
9    75 ms    72 ms    76 ms cr2.dvmco.ip.att.net [12.122.30.26]
10    76 ms    74 ms    72 ms cr1.cgcil.ip.att.net [12.122.31.86]
11    69 ms    71 ms   199 ms gar18.cgcil.ip.att.net [12.122.99.21]
12    70 ms    72 ms    62 ms 12.122.251.18
13    71 ms    72 ms    71 ms 63.240.130.206
Tracing route to 63.240.161.189 over a maximum of 30 hops
1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms Wireless_Broadband_Router.home [192.168.1.1]
2     7 ms     7 ms     6 ms L100.LSANCA-VFTTP-70.verizon-gni.net [96.229.205.1]
3     8 ms    12 ms    11 ms G0-5-3-0.LSANCA-LCR-21.verizon-gni.net [130.81.185.4]
4    93 ms    49 ms    10 ms so-6-0-0-0.LAX01-BB-RTR1.verizon-gni.net [130.81.29.124]
5    11 ms     9 ms     9 ms 0.xe-3-0-0.BR3.LAX15.ALTER.NET [152.63.114.241]
6    11 ms     9 ms     9 ms 192.205.35.161
7    69 ms    71 ms    69 ms cr1.la2ca.ip.att.net [12.122.82.246]
8    67 ms    67 ms    66 ms cr1.slkut.ip.att.net [12.122.30.29]
9    70 ms    71 ms    72 ms cr2.dvmco.ip.att.net [12.122.30.26]
10    70 ms    71 ms    72 ms cr1.cgcil.ip.att.net [12.122.31.86]
11   160 ms   127 ms   107 ms gar18.cgcil.ip.att.net [12.122.99.21]
12   196 ms   226 ms   377 ms 12.122.251.18
13    69 ms    76 ms    70 ms 63.240.130.206
RECENT TRACEROUTES
Traceroute1:
Tracing route to 12.129.209.68 over a maximum of 30 hops
1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms Wireless_Broadband_Router.home [192.168.1.1]
2     7 ms     7 ms     7 ms L100.LSANCA-VFTTP-70.verizon-gni.net [96.229.205.1]
3    18 ms    12 ms    11 ms G0-5-3-0.LSANCA-LCR-22.verizon-gni.net [130.81.185.2]
4    13 ms     9 ms    20 ms ae2-0.LAX01-BB-RTR2.verizon-gni.net [130.81.22.238]
5     7 ms     9 ms    10 ms 0.xe-8-1-0.BR3.LAX15.ALTER.NET [152.63.115.69]
6    55 ms    49 ms    77 ms 192.205.35.161
7    12 ms    12 ms    17 ms cr2.la2ca.ip.att.net [12.122.84.70]
8     9 ms    12 ms    11 ms gar29.la2ca.ip.att.net [12.122.129.241]
9     9 ms     9 ms    14 ms 12-122-254-238.attens.net [12.122.254.238]
10    17 ms    14 ms    15 ms mdf001c7613r0003-gig-12-1.lax1.attens.net [12.129.193.254]
Traceroute2:
Tracing route to 12.129.209.68 over a maximum of 30 hops
1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms Wireless_Broadband_Router.home [192.168.1.1]
2     7 ms     6 ms     8 ms L100.LSANCA-VFTTP-70.verizon-gni.net [96.229.205.1]
3    12 ms    11 ms    10 ms G0-5-3-0.LSANCA-LCR-22.verizon-gni.net [130.81.185.2]
4    38 ms    13 ms    11 ms ae0-0.LAX01-BB-RTR2.verizon-gni.net [130.81.22.246]
5     9 ms    10 ms     9 ms 0.xe-9-1-0.BR3.LAX15.ALTER.NET [152.63.115.65]
6    12 ms    15 ms    11 ms 192.205.35.161
7    12 ms    14 ms    14 ms cr2.la2ca.ip.att.net [12.122.84.70]
8    77 ms    13 ms    39 ms gar20.la2ca.ip.att.net [12.122.128.181]
9    12 ms    12 ms    13 ms 12-122-254-238.attens.net [12.122.254.238]
10    12 ms    11 ms    12 ms mdf001c7613r0004-gig-10-1.lax1.attens.net [12.129.193.250]
Pathping(Conducted on 11/3/13):
Tracing route to 12.129.209.68 over a maximum of 30 hops
0 Angel-HP.home [192.168.1.2]
1 Wireless_Broadband_Router.home [192.168.1.1]
2 L100.LSANCA-VFTTP-70.verizon-gni.net [96.229.205.1]
3 G0-5-3-0.LSANCA-LCR-22.verizon-gni.net [130.81.185.2]
4 ae0-0.LAX01-BB-RTR2.verizon-gni.net [130.81.22.246]
5 0.xe-9-1-0.BR3.LAX15.ALTER.NET [152.63.115.65]
6 192.205.35.161
7 cr1.la2ca.ip.att.net [12.122.82.246]
8 gar29.la2ca.ip.att.net [12.122.129.241]
9 12-122-254-238.attens.net [12.122.254.238]
10 mdf001c7613r0004-gig-10-1.lax1.attens.net [12.129.193.250]
11     *        *        *
Computing statistics for 250 seconds...
            Source to Here   This Node/Link
Hop RTT    Lost/Sent = Pct Lost/Sent = Pct Address
0                                           Angel-HP.home [192.168.1.2]
                                0/ 100 = 0%   |
1    0ms     0/ 100 = 0%     0/ 100 = 0% Wireless_Broadband_Router.home [192.168.1.1]
                                0/ 100 = 0%   |
2 213ms     9/ 100 = 9%     9/ 100 = 9% L100.LSANCA-VFTTP-70.verizon-gni.net [96.229.205.1]
                                0/ 100 = 0%   |
3   13ms     0/ 100 = 0%     0/ 100 = 0% G0-5-3-0.LSANCA-LCR-22.verizon-gni.net [130.81.185.2]
                                0/ 100 = 0%   |
4   15ms     2/ 100 = 2%     2/ 100 = 2% ae0-0.LAX01-BB-RTR2.verizon-gni.net [130.81.22.246]
                                0/ 100 = 0%   |
5   16ms     1/ 100 = 1%     1/ 100 = 1% 0.xe-9-1-0.BR3.LAX15.ALTER.NET [152.63.115.65]
                                0/ 100 = 0%   |
6   16ms     0/ 100 = 0%     0/ 100 = 0% 192.205.35.161
                              100/ 100 =100%   |
7 ---     100/ 100 =100%     0/ 100 = 0% cr1.la2ca.ip.att.net [12.122.82.246]
                                0/ 100 = 0%   |
8 ---     100/ 100 =100%     0/ 100 = 0% gar29.la2ca.ip.att.net [12.122.129.241]
                                0/ 100 = 0%   |
9 ---     100/ 100 =100%     0/ 100 = 0% 12-122-254-238.attens.net [12.122.254.238]
                                0/ 100 = 0%   |
10 ---     100/ 100 =100%     0/ 100 = 0% mdf001c7613r0004-gig-10-1.lax1.attens.net [12.129.193.250]
Trace complete.
I had a pathping from June, can't find it anywhere..
Thank you ahead of time! I hope my issue is fixed because i can't stand it anymore.

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http://www.speedtest.bbmax.co.uk/results.php?t=1333920063&v=15486878
http://www.speedtest.bbmax.co.uk/results.php?t=1333920583&v=15486955
however i always get loads of lag when playing on xbox live, to the point it is not worth playing, it gets worse than when I was on normal copper wire broadband.
I have also noticed that there is quite a delay before web pages open when browsing the internet in general, my ping used to be pretty consistent at around 17 - 20ms before I switched to infininty but now seems to jump around lot even going as high as 300ms on occasion.
my line profile seems to have set at 38.10mb which I am happy with, and the engineer who installed my infinity said that my line stats were excellent.
all this said then why do i seem to be suffering when using xbox live??

Hi Cameron
No I have been trying it with the wireless disabled, although on our old connection this wasnt an issues, myself and my son could both use our xboxs together on the one connection and still it was better than at presen
I didnt have the cable in the gigabyte port, I have now though, what does this port do?
Yes port forwarding set to xbox live

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Here i go again thinking about stepping up on motherboaerds and cpus! If you have an opinion on which would make the best online gaming setup let me here you hollor! I will only go with intel so all amd lovers dont bother!

He's better off with a Q6600 over the E6850, because you can clock the Q6600 to QX6850 speeds and it's quad core, so future proof anyway.
And the Q6600 costs less.
However the CPU will be very limited by that 7900GT.
A 8800GTX or HD2900XT would be a better choice.
EDIT: Get a G0 stepping Q6600, they have a lower TDP of 95w and require less voltage.

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I see many people on coming on complaining that they are getting many disconenctions, lag, high ping rates etc...which leads me to my question, Is BT Infinity good for online gaming?

I came to infinity from VirginMedia where jitter is awful and your TBB graph would be full of yellow! On infinity my jitter is pretty much non existent and latency is very low.
Regards,
Paul

Complete Drop Out when online gaming

Recently I have managed to convince my landlord of weekday digs (I work away all week) to sign up for infinity, after having this installed to great effect at my own home residence some months back.
I play an online racing game which uses ports 6654 & 6655 which are configured through the router to allow gaming to be played online with others.
Latency or lag has always been an issue for some users of this game with poor connections, (me included) but when we switched from cable Virgin to Infinity here, i hoped my latency issues would be resolved. Not so, its even worse. Worse to the point where I DC from the game completely, or suffer horrendous latency.
I do run wireless, and the situation is better when hard wired through LAN, but when at home I never experience problems of this magnitude.
I am only 10ft away from router & modem when wireless, with no other users connected when i get the problem.
I have run a Tracert Ping check, and the final 'hops' are above 110...not a good sign.
Upload and download speeds are great and as they should be for this service.
I can not see a DSL filter fitter, but assume its pre-fitted in the juntion box?
Any ideas on this would be most appreciated as its runing my gaming experience, of which I moderate but can not even play!

What are the first couple of tracert hops? They should give an idea of latency due to ping (first hop high; should be <1ms on a wired connection) and latency due to interleaving (second hop significantly higher than first hop, should be around 6ms without interleaving, mine is aroung 15ms with interleaving).
If the remaining hops are high, that is BT routing. I have silly Winchester-London routing via Sheffield that adds and extra 9/10ms with the hop norht and the hop south.
Even with interleaving and routing I still get 29ms typical to BBC. Your talk of 100 sounds horrendous.

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ThisisReality wrote:
I have been trying for almost a year trying to get online gaming to work with my router. I've been trying to play Age of Empires 2. I've done about anything and everything to get myself about play. I know it's my router as when I connect my computer directly to the modem, it works and I'm able to play online. I can never see the room when I use my router. My router is a WRT54G v2.2. It's been upgraded to the latest firmware which is one of the things I tried with no luck. I have tried port forwarding, but it didn't work. I followed this website exactly and tried it more than once: http://portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/Linksys/WRT54G/Age_of_Empires_II.htm But no luck... I also even tried to enable DMZ, but no luck either. I tried Hamachi too. We're able to connect and all, but nothing either. I don't know what's wrong, but if anyone can help, I will appreciate it greatly. However, maybe I did something wrong with port forwarding. You never know, but most likely not. Still...
Hi
As u have upgraded the router, ports are aleready forwarded and Even DMZ is enableD?(enufff !! shew!)
click on security on the router page , Un chek block anonymous internet request.
Set MTU to 1350 under set up tab.
hey can u connect computer directly to ur Modem/ISP , and try accessing the game .
maybe ur ISP firewall is acting on u !! ??(happened with me , its weird !! )
let me know the status .
pe@c3
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What Mac product is best for online gaming?

I purchased a MacBook Pro for my daughter & she loves it. She was a little disappointed that she couldn't play some of her online games because the web browser wasn't compatible. Other than that she had no complaints.
Is there a software that's needed in order to play online games? I'm not sure I want to purchase a Mac Desktop for the family & have issues with online gaming.
Anyone have any suggestions?

Well for browser based games you likely have to install Firefox and the Flash browser plugin, they are likely not accepting Safari in particular because of it's small market share.
Firefox, Chrome and IE they have to support.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/plugincheck/
https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
Online gamming tend to mean heavy duty 3D games that are competitive, require a very powerful video card etc. for that really no Mac is ideal, a Windows 7 3D gaming tower is a more preferred option as the video cards can be upgraded.
Sure one can play offline 3D games well on a Mac, but that's not as much fun as online competitive gaming is.
For that you might want to consider a PlayStation 3 for lower cost, easier to use larger screen (HDTV) and a level playing field in hardware.

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I am curious as to if a G5 can be used for a Server for Online Gaming prior to my going out and purchasing one. I am new to Apple computers and would like to know if i bought the Full Upgraded version.. would the game work and be able to handle the amount of gamers that play the game.. (currently approximately 200-300 players at any given time)
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Yes it certainly can but which online games have
server versions that run on a G5?
Maybe i didnt explain it better... I want to use my G5 to be the HOST server for the online game.. is "this" possible??

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Do courses specific to Flash 8 exist? I have also been thinking
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MX2004. Does anyone know if courses and certiification exist for
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Interesting fix. Being new to Macs I am not sure how that happened to you. I checked my Safari's info and Open with Rosetta was already unchecked. It's not that I cannot completely play Java games on Pogo, but if the game window does not crash, the game table will be blank and the chat text area will be shown, or the chat text area will be blank while the game table shows up.
It is frustrating. Still, I think it is more to do with the developers and web designers than with our out of the box settings. In comparison, the majority of Windows PC's can play games on Pogo, Yahoo, MSN, etc., without much more than downloading and install ActiveX.
If a Windows PC and a Mac both have the same version of Java installed, and all required platform updates are installed, respectively, what common sense reasoning would be behind the conflict that either platform would have with interacting with a Java based online gaming site?
The coders do not write for the lesser number of site traffic. Hard to swallow, but it is my honest opinion. Still, I gave up frustrations I could count on when I shut down my PC for the last time and I do not intend to allow a lack of gaming to get me down as a new Mac user.

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