Sky LLU and WoW?

[hominid]

I've recently been getting very bad lag on my BT connection, which has been confirmed to be exchange congestion by my ISP(entanet) - which I do believe. Latency is in high 40's-low 50's all day and then come 5-6pm it goes to sometimes well over 1000ms which is unplayable, let allone in a 25man raid.

I've looked on Samknows and my exchange is Sky LLU enabled and I want to see what peoples experiences are on the service?

Any information like latency etc would be very helpfull in making me decide. It's not the connect(bt) but the LLU(sky's own equipement) service that I'm thinking of getting, so any experiences would be helpfull.

 

[hominid]

What about the latency to WoW servers, I know they don't use fastpath for the ADSL connection so I wondered how much difference in latency that caused?

 

[hominid]

Well after having to bow out of another 25 man raid tonight with 4k latency which is obviously unplayable I'm going to move to Sky LLU.

From what I've read the WoW europe servers are located in France, so not a million miles away. I've not had lag problems in the last three years and it's only from 5pm onwards, after 12 it goes back to 40ms latency - so unusable for teh time period I need it for, it's a joke.

 

[hominid]

I'm on fastpath with Sky LLU. I think the Interleaved thing is for longer lines so if you are miles from the exchange then it might affect you. Even when I was on Interleaved in my old house I had them reduce a setting at their end and my pings dropped from 60+ to around 40, this took an email and a few days.

A ping of 40 would be fine as long as it's stable 40ms, I just don't want to sign up to a 12 month contract and still be in the same position.

It would be a bonus if you can get fastpath, but from all that I've read the interleaved is enabled by default. My line is only 2km, with an attenuation of 25db, but not sure if that is a long line in dsl terms or not.

Anyway, MAC code applied for and hopefully Sky can sort me out asap.

Thanks everyone.

 

[hominid]

Thanks for the offer but the servers don't respond to icmp/ping tests via command prompt.

I'm now all signed up to sky unlimited and go live on Tuesday the 18th so I'll find out then