UPDATE: Minsk Devs Respond to Server Lag

LpBronco, on May 08 2017 - 13:51, said: dance210 are you going to get into trouble for spending so much time speaking with us? Seems really out of character for a forum moderator but absolutely appreciated.   Any chance they will give you a ban hammer?  


kupjones, on May 08 2017 - 14:04, said:   Dance, I do appreciate what you have done here.  I have now opened I think 6 - 8 support tickets and provided all of the requested information, over and over.  Today I received an answer from Kyle Fisher where he basically says that the PingPlotter output shows latency to be introduced by 2 Internet backbone providers (I have no idea where he sees this as the 2 he points out are running 27 and 57ms, respectively), that I need to talk to my ISP, and he wanted to make sure I knew my PC isn't directly connected to the NA EAST servers.  Hmmmm.   My reply was rather curt -- but the message still the same:  The latency that my plotter output shows is being introduced by the last leg of the network right before the NA EAST load balancer (login-p1)  That device is using an IP address right out of WG's Internet provider IP block, making this directly under the control of WG.  What is striking is that device mysteriously disappeared from the path a couple of weeks ago for about 24 hours -- then re-appeared.    I could start taking big guesses as to what that device is doing - but I would rather not.   Whatever it is doing, WG needs to put something in place that has more ummmph.  (that is a technical term, btw)   Ummm, this isn't considered ban speech, is it??