Joined: 07 Feb 2007Posts: 1Location: North Yorkshire
I've been with freeserve/Wanadoo and now Orange for other 3years.
I have been playing world of warcraft for over a year on and off and never used to have any problems.
Recently I have been experiancing servere peak time lag between the hours of 6pm and 10pm. Thinking this could be an issue with my pc/virus software or firewalls I have been through and done absolutely everything to check my connection is in good working order.
Also if there was a problem with my firewall/game/pc etc surely the problem would not be intermittent....
No, I am convinced that I have narrowed it down to the poor ISP that is Orange. This topic on the World of Warcraft forums confirmed my suspicions.
Recently I agreed to stay with Orange in exchange for a drop in my monthly payments to £12.99 from £17.99 (Yes I know I was being ripped off) a month for the maximum speed on my line of 2mb, till April apparently, when I should get 8mb.
Realsing that the Isp was the problem I rang a few days later and requested my MAC code. I was told I may get stung as I had agreed to a 1yr contract! I never saw a contract or signed a thing! They may charge me a cancelation fee!
I can play wow late nights, early mornings, weekends, no problems Its weeknights at peak time when the latency suddenly jumps to 256 lowest and around 2000 peak. Making the game unplayable
Opinions pls, I have put so much effort into correcting this, bought a new router ffs, costing me £90. I have learnt so much about tracert, opening ports, and anything else to do with running wow. It seems that the problem all along has been a poor isp.
From that forum thread you linked to the tracert's show something pretty clear. The route goes out of Planet (used by Orange as a backbone network), through a london based system and off to telia, which so I believe is a larger continental network mainly originating from Sweden.
Changing ISP could avoid it but the worst case senario is you join another that happens to have traffic go the same route. Right now as I've never heard of Orange having anything to do with Telia and as it's several steps down the route it's doubtful they have any direct contact with them.
You could try a tracert and see if it's the same problem that you're experiencing.
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