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My Old Servers Ache - Chronic Pain
iTZKooPA on Thursday, February 25, 2010 - 7 Comments Tags: lag, lagtheridon, latency, magtheridon, old server, old servers, original servers, ping, raiding 
Magtheridon, my home server, has been off ever since the Lich King was released upon the masses. Pings of 100-200ms (56k speeds) have become the norm. Unplayable pings of 500ms and beyond plague prime time on Tuesday and Wednesday. As the week moves on the server becomes more playable. To little to late, as the damage is done to most guilds. Including mine, which raids on Tuesdays and Wednesdays only.
After a successful 25-man with my two 10-man guilds last Tuesday, this Tuesday's was an absolute disaster. While forming the raid we realized that the pings were going all over the place, from tolerable to two seconds of lag. We zoned in hoping that the instance cluster would be more stable. It wasn't. We cleared trash, but could not get past Marrowgar due to the sporadic latency. After the raid dissolved a 10-man was formed to tackle Ignis, the new weekly quest. Our assumption was that being outgeared would make up for any lag. The quick demise of Flame Leviathan gave us hope. False hope, we wiped. Repeatedly. Our failing was chalked up to lag and everyone logged in disgust. Who knows if my rogue will get his weekly done now...