[RTC List] Bandwidth bottlenecks & online gaming

[Kevin Nelson]

I'm on AT&T DSL. My son keeps having problems with his World Of Warcraft
account lagging. That has me wondering:

 

How demanding are these games on our overall internet capacity?

How often is that pipe hitting maximum capacity? (Does anybody know?)

 

His friends who were on SuddenLink eventually left it, because game-related
lags were next to impossible to tolerate. 

 

When I did a tracert on worldofwarcraft.com, the network times out around a
network called:  

 

11    74 ms    75 ms   129 ms  mdf001c7613r0003-gig-10-1.lax1.attens.net
[12.129.193.242]

12     *        *        *     Request timed out.

.

30     *        *        *     Request timed out.

Trace complete.

 

Yet ventrilo.com, another online service my son uses simultaneously to
running WOW, doesn't experience those timeouts.

 

So comes another question: Is the issue not a local one, but rather one
probably located somewhere around the Los Angeles airport?

 

Thanks,

Kevin Nelson

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