Strange trick I found:

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I was working a daemon over by Fire Temple last night with my tamer.
I didn't break Roar or Roar Sr out of the stables this time, I just
went there to whack on daemons. About halfway through Ebnor's status
bar the Lag Monster hit - HARD. Started freezing for 5, 10 seconds at
a time. Fortunately I had just peace'd the daemon so I lag-stepped
away and Recalled home. That took over a minute; I was sure I was
dead.

I logged out and ran UOTrace. The first hop off my local ISP routers
was running at 260ms with 30% packet loss and it got worse between
there and Pacific. So I waited 5 minutes and checked it again and the
route was still shot and again 5 minutes later the same result.

Then just on a whim I ran a trace *to* the first wigged-out router and
this came back at 10ms. I re-ran the trace to Pacific and everything
cleared up; I was back to my normal 10ms-20ms with 0% packet loss all
the way to the server (I live less than 100 mi from the servers).

I wouldn't think that tracing to the bad router would do anything but
that was the only thing I did different.
--
I'm on a journey in search of myself.
If I get back first, let me know that I'm
looking for myself and don't let me leave.

 

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"OrionCA" <orionca@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> I was working a daemon over by Fire Temple last night with my tamer.
> I didn't break Roar or Roar Sr out of the stables this time, I just
> went there to whack on daemons. About halfway through Ebnor's status
> bar the Lag Monster hit - HARD. Started freezing for 5, 10 seconds at
> a time. Fortunately I had just peace'd the daemon so I lag-stepped
> away and Recalled home. That took over a minute; I was sure I was
> dead.
>
> I logged out and ran UOTrace. The first hop off my local ISP routers
> was running at 260ms with 30% packet loss and it got worse between
> there and Pacific. So I waited 5 minutes and checked it again and the
> route was still shot and again 5 minutes later the same result.
>
> Then just on a whim I ran a trace *to* the first wigged-out router and
> this came back at 10ms. I re-ran the trace to Pacific and everything
> cleared up; I was back to my normal 10ms-20ms with 0% packet loss all
> the way to the server (I live less than 100 mi from the servers).
>
> I wouldn't think that tracing to the bad router would do anything but
> that was the only thing I did different.
> --
> I'm on a journey in search of myself.
> If I get back first, let me know that I'm
> looking for myself and don't let me leave.

UOTrace uses Tracert. So all your doing is a ping that pulls the server
name. Sounds more like Murphy visited you and you just got lucky when you
did that. Nothing I can thing of that coulda gone wrong that UO Trace woulda
done anything about. Smile and breath deep, enjoy the day, the Server Gods
have forgiven whatever (Probably Imagined) transgression that they were mad
about!

Alminair