Constant packet loss

[Harkle]

G'day guys.. Been having a problem with packet loss data from doo servers altho it isn't restricted to any 1 location.. (marketplace, Wilderness area, 6man dungeons)
i dont get any lag at all.. just loss

only been happening over the last 14 days,
here is my trace

Tracing route to gls.ddo.com [74.201.102.13]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms NB6.home [192.168.1.1]
2 13 ms 14 ms 11 ms lo1.mel-lns4.vic.westnet.com.au [202.173.
3 14 ms 14 ms 15 ms gi3-9.mel-core.vic.westnet.com.au [202.173.
4 13 ms 11 ms 19 ms gi1-24.mel-pipe-bdr1.iinet.net.au [203.215.6.142]
5 28 ms 25 ms 29 ms gi15-1-3.syd-ult-core1.iinet.net.au [203.215.20.12]
6 28 ms 24 ms 24 ms te13-0-0.syd-mas-core1.iinet.net.au [203.215.20.149]
7 179 ms 174 ms 175 ms 34023.sydp06.cu.reach.com [134.159.160.57]
8 184 ms 183 ms 179 ms i-10-0-0.wil-core02.bx.reach.com [202.84.140.102]
9 181 ms 185 ms 184 ms i-1-2.tlot03.bi.reach.com [202.84.251.238]
10 * * * Request timed out.
11 259 ms 259 ms 259 ms cr2-cr1.lax009.internap.net [66.79.146.206]
12 * * * Request timed out.
13 * * * Request timed out.
14 * * * Request timed out.
15 * * * Request timed out.
16 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * * Request timed out.
18 258 ms 258 ms 259 ms acs007-wdc005-844-cr2.wdc005.internap.net [66.79.147.198]
19 260 ms 260 ms 259 ms cr1-cr2.wdc005.internap.net [66.79.146.201]
20 * * * Request timed out.
21 * * * Request timed out.
22 257 ms 254 ms 254 ms nym009-phi004-813-cr2.nym009.internap.net [66.79.147.10]
23 259 ms 259 ms 260 ms bsn006-nym009-9-cr1.bsn006.internap.net [66.79.158.9]
24 248 ms 250 ms 249 ms bsn004-bsn006-792-mpr1.bsn004.internap.net [66.79.145.34]
25 250 ms 249 ms 250 ms border1.te7-1-bbnet1.bsn003.pnap.net [63.251.128.43]
26 249 ms 250 ms 257 ms turbine-6.border1.bsn003.pnap.net [64.95.76.202]
27 249 ms 249 ms 250 ms 74.201.102.154
28 252 ms 255 ms 253 ms gls.ddo.com [74.201.102.13]

Trace complete.

Ive spoken to my isp and they say the time outs are normal, Unused pipelines or some such..

they got me to ping their servers with an extended ping.. ie; "ping westnet.com.au -t"

the results were no loss's at all after pinging for a little over an hour.. (pink floyd made this time go faster)
here is a few lines

Reply from 202.72.148.215: bytes=32 time=87ms TTL=247
Reply from 202.72.148.215: bytes=32 time=85ms TTL=247
Reply from 202.72.148.215: bytes=32 time=85ms TTL=247
Reply from 202.72.148.215: bytes=32 time=86ms TTL=247
Reply from 202.72.148.215: bytes=32 time=85ms TTL=247
Reply from 202.72.148.215: bytes=32 time=85ms TTL=247
Reply from 202.72.148.215: bytes=32 time=92ms TTL=247

This is an intermittent problems, sometimes once in 30mins, other times it can happen within 5 mins of the previous spike

Most times it happens i can still hear ingame voice with no stuttering and see everyone moving, but i cannot move or be heard via ingame VoIP, it will comtimes fix itself after about 2 mins..
Other times it will boot me from the game after a time

[Whippy]

I have also been experiencing packet loss over the last 14 days. Having played ddo for several years, this is the first time I have had these problems. All hardware at home has been checked/replaced and the problems remain.

However mine is not constant it is intermittent. It is especially high during raids where there is a lot going on like shroud/tod. (I have never had problems in these raids before).

I am also an international player, from the uk, and I have spoken to several other international players who are also experiencing the same issue. Also for the last 2 weeks or so.

Last night I had 92.5% loss in ToD.

[Harkle]

G'day again all..

TYvm to the people of thelanis that read this and contacted me in-game with possible soloutions..

Turns out the latentcy slide bar in the audio config was the cause..
I had recently increased this from the defualt 250.0 to 350.0, for the reason of fixing stuttering voice's..

since sliding it back to 250.0 i have not once had any loss / DC's

2 weeks of ripping my hair out over that.. lol..
ok, time to go buy a wig and get back to playing!!

Enjoy all