Hello

I recently joined isketch few days ago.. but the thing is some days i lag really bad to isketch end up timing out ??

I thought to myself surely isketch doesn't require that much even someone on dail up could handle this fine ?

I normally ping about 800ms ( I am from New Zealand ) and that's what others get to from there. But some reason i get up to 5000 ms and worse. Other days its fine i can join up and it be stable as.

i am not running anything in the background i can play other online games fine and other chat! ( right now i am pingng 69657 ms )

Any ideas ?

Have you tried making sure your adobe shockwave player is up to date? It can get a little annoying at times.

Have you gone to a command prompt and using tracert to see if there is a connection problem between New Zealand and the game? After all, it's a long way from New Zealand to where the server is based... I wouldn't be surprised if there's a problem on the internet anywhere between you and the game (not necessarily on your computer OR with Isketch).

thanks for replying no idea what it is tho .. did a tracert before with interesting results

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

F:\Documents and Settings\Owner>tracert isketch.net

Tracing route to isketch.net [67.222.12.61]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms mygateway1.ar7 [10.1.1.1]
2 9 ms 9 ms 9 ms 210.55.69.16
3 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms Request Timeout
4 12 ms 13 ms 13 ms ae4-10.akbr5.global-gateway.net.nz [202.37.244.2
21]
5 13 ms 12 ms 12 ms 122.56.127.90
6 13 ms 13 ms 12 ms ae1-2.akbr4.global-gateway.net.nz [202.50.232.77
]
7 14 ms 13 ms 13 ms ae1-10.tkbr9.global-gateway.net.nz [202.50.232.3
7]
8 138 ms 138 ms 138 ms so7-0-1.labr5.global-gateway.net.nz [122.56.127.
38]
9 138 ms 138 ms 138 ms so0-0-1.lebr6.global-gateway.net.nz [202.50.232.
98]
10 138 ms 138 ms 138 ms laxeq.net2ez.com [206.223.123.65]
11 139 ms 138 ms 139 ms br02-1-1.lax4.net2ez.com [64.93.64.89]
12 139 ms 138 ms 139 ms br01-1-1.lax3.net2ez.com [64.93.64.161]
13 139 ms 139 ms 139 ms cr01-1-1.lax6.net2ez.com [72.172.64.46]
14 140 ms 139 ms 139 ms la-gw.privatesystems.net [72.172.66.10]
15 139 ms 139 ms 139 ms vz53-la.privatesystems.net [67.222.15.153]
16 139 ms 139 ms 139 ms www.isketch.net [67.222.12.61]

Trace complete.

i have the lastest of shockwave as well must be something to do with my isp maybe ? i hope not ...

Hello there rygrass - and firstly, welcome to the forum :biggrin:

Yours is definitely an interesting problem and I must ask, have you sent feedback (info@isketch.net) an email?

I hope this is resolved for you soon - I feel your pain!

The tracert tells us a lot... it tells us the path that the information packets take from your computer to the game, and how long each step takes. It doesn't seem like there is any step along the way that is unusually longer than any of the others, or is the "end of the road" of information. This can happen sometimes. But you are communicating information to iSketch normally, it seems.
In addition, you say you can visit other web sites alright. So it's not an ISP problem.

I've had "lag" issues connecting to iSketch as well. If your Adobe shockwave player is up to date, I believe it's something in the game itself, and not your computer.

Hey rygrass hopefully you're still around.
You wouldn't happen to be using Telecom as your ISP would you?
I have the exact same problems and they only started recently. I lag out frequently, sometimes having to relog, sometimes it just catches up after 2mins, writing like 300 messages and finishing 4 games in under a second lol.

The problems for me are not only with iSketch either; there are many games which just happened to miraculously start lagging horribly, sometimes taking 20+ minutes to connect to a server (if at all), and it all started around the same time a few weeks back. Of course Telecom denies any info or liability :razz:
I have it on good authority (from a Telecom staff-member) that Telecom Broadband are purposely ignoring all requests about lag-related issues, as well as having introduced thousands of restrictions on websites even remotely related to the P2P community. I guess that includes all forms of filesharing and gaming too.

If anyone finds a workaround for our problem, please advise :)

For your perusal here is my very similar tracert:

Tracing route to isketch.net [67.222.12.61]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 21 ms 99 ms 98 ms dsldevice.lan [_]
2 32 ms 33 ms 33 ms 210.55.69.192
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 49 ms 35 ms 35 ms ae4-10.akbr5.global-gateway.net.nz [202.37.244.2
21]
5 31 ms 31 ms 35 ms 122.56.127.90
6 31 ms 31 ms 33 ms ae1-2.akbr4.global-gateway.net.nz [202.50.232.77
]
7 193 ms 43 ms 35 ms ae1-10.tkbr9.global-gateway.net.nz [202.50.232.3
7]
8 253 ms 161 ms 161 ms so7-0-1.labr5.global-gateway.net.nz [122.56.127.
38]
9 532 ms 300 ms 178 ms so1-0-2.lebr6.global-gateway.net.nz [202.50.232.
14]
10 165 ms 159 ms 161 ms laxeq.net2ez.com [206.223.123.65]
11 163 ms 164 ms 162 ms br02-1-1.lax4.net2ez.com [64.93.64.89]
12 159 ms 157 ms 157 ms br01-1-1.lax3.net2ez.com [64.93.64.161]
13 167 ms 161 ms 173 ms cr01-1-1.lax6.net2ez.com [72.172.64.46]
14 164 ms 163 ms 163 ms la-gw.privatesystems.net [72.172.66.10]
15 159 ms 157 ms 158 ms vz26-la.privatesystems.net [67.222.15.126]
16 168 ms 167 ms 158 ms host.fabbest.com [67.222.12.61]

Trace complete.