Higher than normal sim ping times.

[bigmoe Whitfield]

few of us over the last few hours have noticed,  anywhere we jump too. most sims are sitting at 219 to 280ms ping times.  most of us since we are well within local routes from ll's data center see 19ms as normal most of the time.    tonight is wierd,  no other tests to google or yahoo or even bing with a ping/tracert show more than 31ms.    so somethings not right with SL at the moment @Keira Linden @Kirsten Linden

[bigmoe Whitfield]

okay, it finally went away, we are not sure what changed, but me and the others are back down around normal now.  

[Rachel1206]

3 hours ago, bigmoe Whitfield said:

few of us over the last few hours have noticed,  anywhere we jump too. most sims are sitting at 219 to 280ms ping times.  most of us since we are well within local routes from ll's data center see 19ms as normal most of the time.    tonight is wierd,  no other tests to google or yahoo or even bing with a ping/tracert show more than 31ms.    so somethings not right with SL at the moment @Keira Linden @Kirsten Linden

Here from Europe we have like 150-180 ms ping, when things working perfect. During last 7+ days I experienced very high ping times in some regions like 380- 800 ms, making movements/walking impossible as the good old rubber-hand effect kicks in , texture loads are extreme slow.

[Vicious Hollow]

While sitting at our shop in Badger (in the last hour or so) I've seen the ping go from 257-400+ (saw as low as 145 early on which is almost normal for this time of day). It's how it's been since around 1pm SLT for the past week. Sad thing is, just a week or so ago I was seeing the lowest pings ever - below 100. 

One thing I have noticed is that this is not totally an SL thing, especially today. Google speed tests are all over the map, as with my ISP and OOkla tests. Each one varying in speeds both  up and down (mostly low and slow) and pings well over 110, which for speed tests is rare.

This time of the year, seeing a slight slow down and even some minor packet loss (for wireless users at least) isn't unheard of, but this week has been way worse all around.  

Edited October 2, 2020 by Vicious Hollow