I give up. Prior to today I could login and it flew through the process. Now it hangs during authentication. Once logged in latency is 40ms or less, but soon shoots up to between 3000 and 7000ms. If I don't get DC-ed, I'm stuck and can't logoff or Exit Game, I have to kill it through the task manager. It's on all three characters. Cadeyrn/Booty Bay, Catigern/Darnassus and Cadigern/between Darnassus and points east.

I'm in Iowa, USA... 85ms consistently. Haven't DC'd or lagged at all.

I use Qwest Internet with a 3MB connection.

*shrugs* I don't know what the deal is, Nat. I'm in New Jersey and this just started this morning. Den's in Colorado and has no problems either. My latency is rarely over 45ms. if it is, there are a lot of folks playing and a BG is in progress, but it never goes above 125ms even then.

Sounds like you may have a worm.
I would grab the latest Ad-Aware free version and possibly also Spybot S+D.
If it's not that then it's likely an ISP issue, not from your house to the ISP, but within their core, which means it's probably widespread.

As of 6:30 PM EST everything is back to normal... 33ms latency and no DC's. I'd love to see an explanation for this mess. lol

Nayana, I'm a tech and have SpyBot, AdAware and Malware Bytes. None of them found a thing running in Safe Mode with the System Restore turned off. Neither did Avast nor AVG. It's a complete mystery.

hehe....i cranked up alll the logs...i will review them at a later time...XD

I really don't mean to be a PITA, Den. It was just frustrating as hell.

BTW, when you see Cadigern on would you please inv to Nomads?

i live in Estonia and have the same problem.
i play for a while and then- major lagg.

We'll see what the problem is after Denyde gets a chance to go through the server logs. As has been said, it may well be between players and the server with no problems on either end. There IS such a thing as what we techs call a "blackhole router". It used to be a bigger issue back in the days when there was nothing but dialup internet. It's not as common now however. As an FYI, a "blackhole router" allows data packets to stream in, but it doesn't pass them back out completely, hence there being errors/loss of data and the whole connection slows down or dies completely.

This is just bs. I have 160 latency for a moment, jumps to 4k in a sec, and dcs me 10 secs after. WTB an explanation.

Here's how my morning was...

Time: Latency:
5:15 757
9:20 4762 DC'd
10:45 962
10:49 2712
11:02 DC'd
11:04 7059
11:18 1824 DC'd
11:31 DC'd
11:43 Locked during login
3:14 2233
4:02 1976

Let's see what Den finds in the logs before we start cussing the situation, In the meantime, try this if you wish. Go to http://www.dnsstuff.com/, scroll to the bottom of the page and enter our Server DNS ( 67.205.89.79 ) into the Traceroute field. Look for a bottleneck. If you want, PM the info to me here. DON'T post it!

Let's see if we can be helpful rather than simply pitching a bitch.

Unable to connect at all. DCs me the sec i log in

again, there is the effin big storm that interferes with internet connections from europe. I dont have any lag anywhere else but to area where server is.
Its not server itself, its something near by it.
Busted router, busted server etc... Not our server cus it works fine for some ppl.

Its our internet main connection point.

That's what I'm trying get at. Of course I'm in the US (slightly less than 500 miles from Montreal Canada) so the Atlantic storm shouldn't affect me. lol