Is it me

(GR)Killer said:

Or are the servers starting to lag really bad? i have been spiking alot lately and...no...can't say it....getting packetloss? :/ sometimes it becomes too unplayable (screen freezing up or you are moving 10x's slower making aim harder).

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Hmm, sometimes I get lag too (with the rare 3-5 seconds lag spike), but that has been the case since I started playing the demo, so I really can't say that the situation got worse. Unfortunately I can't find any more servers with <100 ping, so some lag is to be expected, I guess.

I havent experienced much difference except when i changed isp to a faster conn

We're experiencing issues with xeno-tech. Since DE, PET, and NB are all on the same box on the same pipe, we all have problems when any server is decently loaded.

The main problem being that xeno-tech only has what appears to be one windows server box. For UTXMP it wasn't an issue since they had a bunch of linux boxes and UTXMP wasn't as much of a resource hog.

PhatAzz said:

We're experiencing issues with xeno-tech. Since DE, PET, and NB are all on the same box on the same pipe, we all have problems when any server is decently loaded.

The main problem being that xeno-tech only has what appears to be one windows server box. For UTXMP it wasn't an issue since they had a bunch of linux boxes and UTXMP wasn't as much of a resource hog.

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Why are there no links anywhere to "donate" through paypal? Every one of our forum sites and the game servers themselves ought to have a paypal link to shoot Xeno-Tech some $$. They deserve all the support we can give them.

Or am I the only one who would cough up 10-20 bucks every so often?
Just make it easy for me to do so and I'm there.

Yeah I noticed that too. XMP is not playing freindly with the windows boxes. I have been playing around with linux and managed to use EQ2's method of running a linux U2:XMP box. Linux server by far give better stability and ping then windows boxes. Oh welll will have to deal with it. I will pass on the information to Xenotech to see if they will convert the server over to linux.

Chr0matic said:

Why are there no links anywhere to "donate" through paypal? Every one of our forum sites and the game servers themselves ought to have a paypal link to shoot Xeno-Tech some $$. They deserve all the support we can give them.

Or am I the only one who would cough up 10-20 bucks every so often?
Just make it easy for me to do so and I'm there.

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LOL, dude, each of the clans pay for their server. It's a commercial service. If you want to donate, donate to say one of the clans so they MOVE to a better service.

Of note, Pet is going to try to collocate their own server that's close to the Wash DC hub. Get in touch with Pet Owl, he will be setting it up sometime at the end of this week. If anyone needs donation, it's going to be him.

PhatAzz said:

LOL, dude, each of the clans pay for their server. It's a commercial service. If you want to donate, donate to say one of the clans so they MOVE to a better service.

Of note, Pet is going to try to collocate their own server that's close to the Wash DC hub. Get in touch with Pet Owl, he will be setting it up sometime at the end of this week. If anyone needs donation, it's going to be him.

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If I'm not mistaken, Alpha has never actually had to pay for their server. Since now having two servers that may be different.

owl should have his server company up and running this week, hopefully this will provide an alternative to the overloaded xeno-tech servers that bogs down w/ 6 people on it. of course pet will provide one of these severs for public use free to the community <3

w00t a super-server. Must keep the house warm

Dude wipe your pc and reinstall it all... I played on Xenotech a few times from UK and have never got any packetloss...

Usually your network / ISP / PC that causes packetloss... Which sounds like the aim thing you have You still need to lead shots tho

(GR)Killer said:

i got like 15 viruses and like 1 zillion spyware...heh no protection

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Killer is the real reason behind the Master Server being down!

Prolly your PC being homo then Wipe it lol and buy Norton

Xenotech has very poor peering to the east coast and Comcast customers to name a few.. It's really a peering issue for most. Alot of people from the east coast of the US get drug thorugh att.net in Alanta area which is very overloaded and has been for nearly a year and counting. What's interesting to note is the =vÐ= servers are physically in the same data center as the Xenotech U2 servers but peered in a significantly different way. So, the /\ and DE XMP servers ping very high with huge outloss and significantly different trace route from hte =vÐ= servers despite being physically within a 100 yards of each other are fine. This has been an ongoing issue with Xenotech for 9 months with me. When I finally emailed them with the problem, traceroutes from both NB U2XMP server and the =vÐ= box. The reply I got from Xenotech was CPU upgrades will help connectivity with Comcast customers. It hasn't and the traceroutes proved that won't help. WTF? I gave them a traceroute for a server physically in the same spot that seems to have good peering to the east coast and Comcast. Not to mention the fact, most people with my problems on Xenotech, seem to have good luck on connectivity to the =vÐ=servers. I don't know, /end rant I guess..

Not saying our server rocks or anything, it's OK at best, but it's had significantly better results than the Xenotech servers for alot of people in in a similar situation to me for this kind of performance.

Wipe the disk, not even Norton can save you if you had so much crap on it. Spyware will try to hog bandwidth like anything if there's a lot of it, so a R&R is probably the best route. And then install a good firewall and stuff straight away.