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mobile era? you know that happen in 2007 right?
We are not looking at regular mobile phones here, we are talking about smartphones, the ones that revolutionised the technological industry.
Here are the statistics from 2008-2014
. It doesn't show the ones for 2015 and 2016 but it is very obvious it is even higher than what it is at 2014.
Amount of high volume streaming usage of internet services also increased within the last 2 years, corporations moving to cloud technology, media consumption rate rising and the like. In short, there is just more internet compared to when Tera is just released. Heck, I can say everything was way less laggier 5 years ago compared to now despite having a better internet speed. 10mbps at 2008 upgraded to 500mbps now and I feel internet is less stable for gaming regardless of what I play. While everything is indeed faster in terms of loading of videos and various larger sized media, but when it comes to sending reliable packets to gameservers, it is just going to be many times worse than original due to the heightened traffic of media to begin with.
Server sided lag was a permanent (almost daily) feature of NA Tera since then.
So yeah, maybe this new "mobile era" started 2~3 months ago.....
No, if you're comparing to 2-3 months ago (not to multiple years ago), then it's most likely the switch from Zayo to Savvis combined with the specific issues they already explained.
There is also a separate issue on the table about ping spikes, particularly in instances. The issue in this thread, though, is about an increase in average/median ping caused by routing.
It's literally a trade-off, and there's no solution that's better for everyone. The issues Comcast people were having before on Zayo were pretty horrendous but it was more about widespread packet loss (particularly during prime time) than average/median ping. On the whole, it's more stable than it was (because it was even worse). That doesn't mean it's "good" obviously.
im not talking about comcast though, every internet provider is having these issues. how can ppl that live in the same city as eme placed servers having 20 more extra ping? what changed or who [filtered] up that did this. like i know what you're saying but you're not seeing that this is honestly eme and their new servers. they moved their server to something more [filtered] to save more money.
...it's not, though. My own ping has not gone up on average after this switch (many days I'm actually 10 ms less than I used to be). People who live in Chicago can have 20ms added to their ping if it takes a different route, and it still has nothing to do with the servers. And other people may get there in less hops, or over less congested hops, and it'll be lower. It's how routing works.
Savvis is generally not "more [filtered]", and I don't think it's cheaper than Zayo. And, honestly, this is not "EME and their new servers" as the server upgrades they did happened nearly a year ago, long before they switched backend providers. (People may remember the large maintenance windows when this happened.) When they switched from Zayo to Savvis, they didn't change the servers at all.
I know it's very easy to believe it must be negligence, incompetence, or greediness, but for this particular issue I don't see any evidence to support that. Now there is a second issue with ping spikes in instanced content, and that is more directly related to them, I think.
so then if it is the "route" how can one change their actual root their modem takes, cause how can i be fine until this "new server" spacecats said they did?
The upgraded servers and backbone provider are separate issues. As demonstrated by your traceroute, your higher ping times happen in the steps before you hit the server. They did not change servers recently, but upgraded them (and their infrastructure) within the last year, but long before these particular issues started.
Even if it's out of their control, the problem impacts EME, and similar small businesses, more than it impacts the providers. For many portions of the internet in the US a single service provider has control over large portions of a region, in addition to the fact they aren't blamed for the poor service anyways. Just like how if Americans on the east were to have problems with say Comcast, what could they do? They either deal with it, or have no internet. EME has tried multiple providers, but each have problems in different areas. This is why larger businesses choose to handle a lot of it themselves.
You can ask your ISP nicely.
hell my ISP wont even give me faster net cause theyre money hungry like crappy eme.