Optusnet cable and runescape?

[OtherSide]

Okay I am an avid player of runescape, however optus cable seems to be terrible for playing... In that everything about the game is laggy, and I have a massive click delay... the time in which it responds to my clicks varies , however it is mostly at the slow end of the scale. I.e the game is really jumpy. I don't know why this is as i tested my d/l today and it was 9.17mbps and my upload was 256k. I've updated all my drivers etc to no avail. I've even tried playing the game on my brothers computers and it is exactly the same. Is anyone here with optus and experiencing the same problems on runescape?

My friend was with telstra and had the same problems, then changed to iinet and the game ran with no errors whatsoever.

P.s in about 9 days theyre upping us to 20mbps 512k upload - (cheap bastards didn't tell us that the plan had existed for ages, and left us hanging on the 10mbps 256k speed) Do you think this will help?

[organon]

Could be an issue with the upstream provider that Telstra/Optus use? If this is the case it wont matter how fast your connection is.

I would suggest doing some tracert's to isolate where the problem may lie and take it from there.

[OtherSide]

Originally Posted by organon

Could be an issue with the upstream provider that Telstra/Optus use? If this is the case it wont matter how fast your connection is.

I would suggest doing some tracert's to isolate where the problem may lie and take it from there.

I did that, found where the biggest latency jump is, every other server that is listed in the tracert loads up quickly except for that one.

[organon]

If its a Telstra/Optus ip contact them .. if its one of their upstream providers, BL

[FiShy]

post the traceroutes

[OtherSide]

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Admin>tracert www.runescape.com

Tracing route to runescape.com [216.115.77.88]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.0.1
2 5 ms 8 ms 9 ms 10.66.0.1
3 9 ms 7 ms 5 ms rdl1-ge1-2.gw.optusnet.com.au [198.142.160.201]

4 21 ms 22 ms 21 ms sbr3-ge5-0-0-811.gw.optusnet.com.au [211.29.155.
12]
5 186 ms 185 ms 185 ms 203.208.191.61
6 185 ms 185 ms 185 ms paix.10ge.pao.wvfiber.net [198.32.176.164]
7 183 ms 184 ms 183 ms sjc-ten1-3-pao-ten1-1.wvfiber.net [66.186.192.19
3]
8 193 ms 193 ms 193 ms lv-ten1-2-sjc-ten1-3.wvfiber.net [66.186.192.197
]
9 191 ms 191 ms 193 ms cust-lv-ten1-4.wvfiber.net [66.186.192.46]
10 195 ms 193 ms 193 ms te2-2.las-core4-1.switchnap.com [66.209.64.162]

11 195 ms 195 ms 194 ms te4-1.las-agg7s1-1.switchnap.com [66.209.64.206]

12 201 ms 191 ms 195 ms jagex.demarc7-1.switchnap.com [216.115.65.74]
13 193 ms 194 ms 193 ms cust-216.115.77.88.switchnap.com [216.115.77.88]


Trace complete.

[NanoDuke]

This might be a stupid suggestion, but have you ruled out Java being the issue?

What about trying it in another browser?

[purehybrid]

Originally Posted by OtherSide

Okay I am an avid player of runescape,

Well, theres your first problem jkz

Originally Posted by NanoDuke

This might be a stupid suggestion, but have you ruled out Java being the issue?

What about trying it in another browser?

That was my first thought too.