A question to European players, especially those in the UK.

[Norathorr]

Hi guys often when I play on p1999 I am experiencing high latency. Sometimes 1100 ish ms. My internet connection is a decent one, I am just wondering is this solely because I am based in London, or is there anything else I can do to change this?

[Swish]

It shouldn't be that high, on a good day I'm on about 200, sometimes when the server is busy it tends to go up to ~400-450.

Are you playing on wireless and at a fair distance from the router? If so, try plugging an ethernet cable in, or even buying a 20 metre one if nobody objects to you running it along the wall :D. Will make the connection more stable.

Based in Essex, so not far from you.

[formallydickman]

I occasionally play while in France and a good day is about 150-200 ms. I've also played from Birmingham a handful of times and seem to recall ~200 ms.

[Norathorr]

I am plugged into the router, so I have no idea as to why its like this. My computer is also very powerful so I just dont see any reason why it should be so high:(

[Swish]

Has it always been that high or just recently? When was the last time you reset the router? Clutching at straws but an old router I had was famed for literally stopping for about 1-2 seconds and carrying on, piece of crap...and a reset used to (seemingly) help it behave :p

[Norathorr]

It seems totally random! It was fine today but the last couple of days before its been awful. I will try restarting router each time I log on and see if that has an effect. Thanks again:)

[cadiz]

For what it's worth I get an average of 180-200ms from the Czech Republic which
Is expected for transatlantic latency. When I was in the United States it was around 60s or so.

[Llodd]

Uk here too, mine averages around 140.

Start by removing your router from the equation.

[cadiz]

Check your hops to p99 servers via 'MTR', it's basically traceroute but has some additional features.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTR_%28software%29

[Sebekkha]

Buckinghamshire here 140-180 with Sky broadband , I did have it over 1000 once handing epic peices in at trak teeth but I just restarted my eq client and it resolved

[Infuriati]

What about latency with other games?

[Jo soap]

193ms from Birmingham (UK) today. Generally the connection is very solid.

[Norathorr]

Seems like it has evened out for me. I have had no latency problems in any other games including eq1 live. I play on AB server when I was on live. Hopefully this problem goes away for good now. Thanks everyone for your replies!