Lets face it, the telecommunication/internet infrastructure in Australia is below par. With a 80% rise in complaints to Telstra no wonder people are annoyed with lag. There are too many people using it and when saturday evening approaches my dialup becomes worse and worse.
This PB lag seems quite random…so random that I would put money on that ISPs have issues with overlaod during peak times AND the infrastructure is old and where the server is situated…well just makes it worse i guess.

Majority of the complaints would be billing disputes and the bulk of hardware related complaints will be from new connections/no sync or line faults due to end users inability to use proper filters or having complex systems on their line.
You live in a regional area what else would you expect??? a simple incoming call can cause your random lag spikes/disconnections. The fact that you mention that it happens randomly will most likely mean its not caused by peak congestion.

So where is that! i wish they would HTFU!

Well Stephen Conroy has a hand in the NBN1/NBN2 shit so it’ll most likely never going to happen. Just another set of political lies to make voters think the nations going forward.

@nelots

I never implied its random for me but for everyone; considering location, various ISPs, peak time congestion, noise from various factors and even end user issues. From what i’ve read in the threads I think BR has not been able to pinpoint the exact issue yet and even the speed test thread did not appear to point in the right direction.

In the end its either end user, server side OR BOTH but atm it looks to be server side.

What i also know is in previous times when PB was not set properly it would cause consistant lag spikes on Internode. Back then I had adsl2+ and was fine then went bad then was fixed and the server was in Sydney (from memory). If it is server side than it can be hardware/setup or even where it situated….with incorrect PB settings this can cause more issues.

I agree that players will always have issue with the so called ‘lag spikes’ but considering the game is quite old and majority of players can easily run the game on the machine, the issue must be leaning more towards server side IF players say that OZ server causes issues yet others dont (for example).

MOFO server was getting issues and correcting PB setting helped out. There was even an incident where updated server version of PB actually made it worse and therefore players had to revert or wait for yet another update.

PB has caused issues in the past and incorrect setting on the server do make things worse AND at random times.