Lag during looting.

[Irreverent]

Ok, a couple more things.

1) This is only when bring up the loot window, find transfering items from there
2) Also, when you click sell/buy from a merchant it takes a couple extra seconds.

Loaded GnS Affinity on the server just to check...running at very low CPU usage my 2G memory isn't really being peaked either.

[Tharkun]

what about overall network usage? The server is probably processing the request as soon as it gets it, however if there is a lot of network activity, or some other series of network events occurring, it may simply take that long for the data to travel.

I would look at port forwarding, collisions, and other such.

while in your client press f11, and your net stats will show in the upper left corner, what is your latency?

[Irreverent]

Hrm, good point. I logged into eq via the same machine and looting is pretty instantaneous.

Port forwarding:
9000 to 9000
7000 to 7100
3306 to 3306
5998 to 5998
9080 to 9080
10234 to 10234
7779 to 7779
I'm forwarding both UDP/TCP with those port ranges to the server machine on a Linsys WRT54G

OK, we're getting somewhere...

[Irreverent]

But, on my other machine...right next to it(thru same router) I'm gettin 100% and 22ms response...get loot lag

[Tharkun]

wired or wireless?

[Irreverent]

Its all wired, but I did notice the 100% flickers to another number consistantly and then back to 100%.

[Speedz]

Try a crossover cable between server and computer next to it.

(edit: try different network cables to all machines first too, maybe a bad cable?)

A couple issues this could uncover:

Bad router if the speed is fine.
Bad NIC drivers if speed still is bad
Driver conflict if you have more than one NIC in the server. If speed is still bad.
Bad NIC or NIC settings if speed is still bad.

Also is this a motherbaord integrated NIC on the server? If so and these issues are not resolved by a crossover direct link. Try a PCI NIC and disable the onboard.

Is there any noticeable latency in any other real time environment on either the server or client machines?

Give all that a shot, let us know what happens.

[Irreverent]

The deep defrags did not help.

Would the crossover do anything, since even logged in on the same machine I get loot lag?