Thanks for also noting that you are seeing packet loss, and to the other post, I never said it was a bandwidth issue, I said it stops sending data which can happen with a misconfiguration, or faulty hardware. You can have tons of bandwidth but if it's sending it to a dead link, or thru faulty hardware, it gets dropped.
As far as that command, that will show you what you are currently connected to, but that IP you are connecting to, maybe just a gateway to a network of IPs that are setup for qaulity control (like say you have 5 100mbit connections, if connection 1, 2 , and 3 are at around 75% utilization, it rolls over the other connections to connection 4, and 5, to keep bandwidth from maxing out on a specific device). This is probably similar to their setup, as you need tons of bandwidth on the headend to feed 10,000 people connecting who are each asking for 5k/s constantly, that's 50,000k/s their server has to deal with in output in this scenerio or 500mbit total at it's peak =) roughly.
Anyways none of that matters, if they are having packet loss, it's either a configuration error, faulty hardware, or a problem with whatever phone company or isp is feeding the data farm hosting their server, and it can be found with some simple tests.
However everything has been running a lot smoother since last night, and this morning. Either that means less people were on, and it showed, or they fixed something =)
I think you're making a large assumption that multiple machines are being used.
In the end, you'll be connecting to 1 IP address, that is possibly being load balanced to multiple machines.
Loss of packets does not always happen because of a network issue, which is something else to keep in mind. I haven't had any real issues, other than combat for a while now. I haven't bothered to do a sniffer trace or anything to see what the traffic looks like, but if you insist on trying to show something, I'd start there. ICMP is only useful to an extent, to help show there might be an issue, then you should dig deeper. Also a sniffer trace will help show what IP you are connecting to, and I would not be surprised to find it is one IP. HOPEFULLY not the same as the website. :P
I never said multiple machines I said multiple IPs, and that's not and assumption. Everytime you connect you will notice you are talking to a different IP. They also host from Steadfast.net not Hyperion, unless those companies are one in the same, or they switched recently. I also checked their update section which clearly stated they had bandwidth issues (which is why we noticed packet loss) which should be fixed now and appears to be. I never said I ICMP'd their servers, that's not even legal.... I said I said ICMP'd "MY" ISPs Gateway to prove I still had connection during packet loss, which is legal to my knowledge to ICMP my own bandwidth all I want, as I'm paying for it, and I didn't do it long enough for it to be an issue, maybe 10 minutes while I was testing my disconnect. In any event they also mentioned some issues with other people's lag on slower connection causing lag for the rest of us, which would be code optimization they are working out.
This post was just to help them diagnose in the first place but everyone seems to think everything I post is opinionated. I clearly stated the difference between the facts and my opinions, read between the lines =)
Anyways I think they got it under control now, so I'm done posting unless I see more problems arise that need attention.
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Bumping this up to let you guys know after the latest patch loading entities seems to be pushing 4 - 8k/s again. Yesterday and today before the patch loading entities was pushing 250 - 300k/s and i was loading in under a minute instead of 10 minutes. There seems to be some sort of bandwidth? issue still, or intermittent problem with quality control not pushing the correct amount of data? 250k/s for loading entities is fine it loads fast like that, 4k/s is not =O
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