Lag issue

quikrufio · Post by **quikrufio** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 2:05 am

For some unknown reason, i have been getting HORRIBLE lag on Babel server. However, I highly doubt that it is the server itself acting up, but my actual internet lagging. Along with that though, I am at college, running on a t3 connection. me, my roomie and others in the hall all have lag issues. but my cousin, not the same isp, is completely fine. no lag at all. any ideas on how i am able to fix the lag issue? no i can not port forward.

Bakemaster · Post by **Bakemaster** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 2:08 am

My first instinct is to blame your school for having a crappy connection, or someone at your school who is eating up all the bandwith with a torrent program.

allan_b · Post by **allan_b** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 2:56 am

It seems a lot of schools limit any traffic that is not http (web traffic).

quikrufio · Post by **quikrufio** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 9:57 pm

What are the ports that SRO uses? Maybe I can get them (the tech people here) to forward them for me/us. However, I found out I now have the same problem when I try to play CS. Weird. Never happened before. Was fine until 2 days ago

banzaimonkey · Post by **banzaimonkey** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 11:49 pm

Many schools use something called a "packet shaper" to prevent P2P traffic. This basically caps the bandwidth flowing through various ports so random port numbers can't be used by P2P clients. This basically means that any non-standard protocol will suffer from poor bandwidth allocation, and you'll need to find out the port info for SRO. You can try looking around for port numbers, or you can download a program called Ethereal which will log the packets sent to / from your computer. You can use this to isolate which ports are being used by various programs, and you should be able to use it to get the port numbers for the login server and the game server. It'll be easier if you can find a port list somewhere though, so maybe check the official forums. Usually a search for "ports" will bring you the relevant info.

This found in Google's cache:

- netstat -an without S at the end of the first word

Anyway opened ports seems to be
15779
15883
hackshield login

I got: "222.111.150.113:80"

Someone posted earlier that the above IP is the one used for the server, and port 80 is HTTP. If you can view the internet, you should be able to connect to SRO. You may want to try out some network diagnostic tools, such as those found at http://www.broadbandreports.com, to see if there's some unique problem with your connection (i.e. lost packets, bad ping times, etc.).

Bakemaster · Post by **Bakemaster** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 12:03 am

I was getting pretty bad lag today in Babel as well. Might be a serverwide condition.