Slow "Updating" in Minkata.71

[Mac_Fife]

OK, here's something else to try...

Lets see if there's a big variation in the round trip time. Go to http://www.pingtest.net/ - when the map appears drag the circle in the lower over to the US. Roughly in the centre of the large map there's a star and hovering the pinter on that should show an option for a server in Denver, Colorado. Click on it to run a Ping/Jitter test. That server is josted by Comcast so ought to be on the pretty much the same network as the Foundry.

For comparison, here's my result:

I'm not too bothered about the ping time itself, but big numbers for jitter or packet loss could be significant.

[Treehugger]

is mine - if I'm pasting in the correct link

[Mac_Fife]

Well nothing scary in that. 6ms of jitter and no packet loss is pretty respectable.

[sut]

hehe closer seems to help

[rarified]

After restarting the server from today's crash, I did find that one of those manifests (list of the game files and their checksums that is used to avoid copying already up-to-date files from the server) was out-of-sync with the real files. That may have contributed to the slow start-up.

See if things are better now.

_R

[Mac_Fife]

hehe closer seems to help

Indeed.
But as far as closer goes, I'll see your 78ms ping and lower you to 23ms with zero jitter :




Actually, the Minkata backend server fell over a little while ago and on the restart rarified noticed an error in the manifest which he has now fixed. You might find that speeds things up a bit.
[Edit - rarified beat me to it]

[Treehugger]

I can beat your ping, Mac (I'm closer to Milton Keynes!), but not your jitter!

Sadly, the post-crash version is no faster - I've just timed the spinning circle phase as 4 mins 12 sec. MOULa was 1 min 4 secs.

[JWPlatt]

I get pings in the high 60s.

As for load times, I timed from launch to Uru screen (click through cached logon, TOS, and logo) as 40 seconds for Minkata and 63 (55 on second try) seconds for MOULa.

[sut]

Mine stayed the same Oh well I tried hehe

[janaba]

I just did the ping test one and I think the load speed cannot have much to do with the pings
as mine is much higher than yours, ok, I'm at a distance of 5000 miles, but my login speed is
quite acceptable ...



I've tested the progress bar/spinning circle speeds (until login/avatar selection screen) of

Minkata - 1 min 30 sec
MOULa - 1 min 40 sec (I clicked the logo away and counted then as the others don't have it)
Gehn - 14 sec

and this is quite good ... Treehugger and Mac e.g. seem to have a much faster internet speed,
but Treehugger can go and have a coffee before being logged in ...

Here's a more closer to Colorado test with even 100 miles more