We have suffered from lag for a fair while now and we are pleased to announce that the situation should be resolved within the next month.
The lag problems have been confirmed as routing issues with the providers who peer with Modern World Internet (the company who have taken over from Crosswired following Stryker's departure). MWI are currently unable to resolve this peering problem.
So this is what is going to happen to solve the problem:
- BlackAdder will be pulled from the MWI rack and sent to a new provider by the end of November.
- The new provider will host our hardware in Redbus (London). This is a premiere facility and the quality of our connectivity should therefore be *awesome*.
- The forums and website will be moved from BlackAdder onto a different box. This will avoid the 'single point of failure' we recently suffered.
- The new provider is an ADSL provider and if members choose to use their services you should be pretty much assured of an absolutely stunning ping when playing on the dMw servers.
We know you have really suffered on the lag front over the past few months and appreciate your ongoing support of the dMw Community. We hope that the plans announced today will move us forward into a new and low ping, lag-free era.
TL.
Nice one.
What costs are involved and how much do you want us to cough up?
Don't mind paying for quality ;)
Sorry to hear about Crosswired/Stryker :( Thanks to them for all their support over the years :thumbsup:
The only time the lag really bothered me is when Duvel's on the opposition, because I know he's happily running round shooting us all while were lagged out. But seriously, nice to know there will be lag free gaming once again with dmw, I can hardly bring myself to play on publics anymore, far to many idiots around.
QuoteOriginally posted by BlueBall@Oct 30 2004, 12:21 PM
Nice one.
What costs are involved and how much do you want us to cough up?
Don't mind paying for quality ;)
Sorry to hear about Crosswired/Stryker :( Thanks to them for all their support over the years :thumbsup:
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What he said. I am happy to donate for quality TCS/TCZ/TCS : S time.
Great work and good news!
Do let us know if donations will be required for hosting - as said above, quality is worth paying for! ;-)
I would be more than happy to support :)
QuoteOriginally posted by JonnyAppleSeed@Oct 31 2004, 05:32 PM
I would be more than happy to support :)
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:withstupid:
35p a month wouldn't break the bank! Count me in. :D
QuoteOriginally posted by TeaLeaf@Oct 30 2004, 09:06 AM
The new provider is an ADSL provider and if members choose to use their services you should be pretty much assured of an absolutely stunning ping when playing on the dMw servers.
who is the adsl provider?
I'm gonna save some pennies and get adsl put in asap. So im on hte lookout for a ISP
:)
QuoteOriginally posted by BlueBall@Oct 30 2004, 10:21 AM
Nice one.
What costs are involved and how much do you want us to cough up?
Don't mind paying for quality ;)
Sorry to hear about Crosswired/Stryker :( Thanks to them for all their support over the years :thumbsup:
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yeah all that and more
cant wait :dribble:
QuoteOriginally posted by Jamoe@Oct 31 2004, 07:07 PM
who is the adsl provider?
I'm gonna save some pennies and get adsl put in asap. So im on hte lookout for a ISP
:)
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i word for u m8 ECLIPSE
As all others i wouldnt mind donating just ask :)
:withstupid:
For all those looking for an ADSL provider:
Wait until you know who we are hosting the server with - if you pick the same company as your ISP then you minimise the number of hops needed to connect to the dMw servers and your pings should be great. More info to follow once the details are finalised.
Just for info, I will be attempting to migrate my ADSL to the new hosting company......
TL.
I'd cough up some money aswell.
Update:
Work is underway to provide a new home for our game servers, the forum, the website and the 'Dead Men' email accounts.
We will start the migration as soon as possible with a completion date of early December. This will obviously result in disruption but with the server performing so badly it's something we have to do.
In preparation, can I ask all members with dead men email addresses to make sure that they are not being used where missed emails could cause a problem. I suggest you change your ED profiles to non-dMw email addresses for example.
Remember that we have a backup forum that should be used should this main one go AWOL - http://www.goodbaby.co.uk/deadmen (http://www.goodbaby.co.uk/deadmen)
More info as I get it.
Good luck with it and if I can do anything to help just ask.
Update ...
A copy of the website and forums are now working happily on the new host. We just need a couple of things to be put in place and then we will switch over. There will be a period of downtime and the inevitable DNS catch-up issues.
Our game servers should be ready to roll within two weeks. :)
any news on who the ISP is going to be. I'm hoping to migrate to adsl with the same isp :).
QuoteOriginally posted by Jamoe@Nov 16 2004, 03:14 PM
any news on who the ISP is going to be. I'm hoping to migrate to adsl with the same isp :).
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Announced this coming weekend.
There is a logo on the dmw homepage that sort of gives it away really ;)
QuoteOriginally posted by BlueBall@Nov 16 2004, 04:59 PM
There is a logo on the dmw homepage that sort of gives it away really ;)
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nope, guess again :) be patient. All will be revealed soon.
Go on it's AOL isn't it :)
QuoteOriginally posted by DuVeL@Nov 1 2004, 11:50 AM
I'd cough up some money aswell.
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You can cough up money? that quite some trick we'd all like to know ;)
Well done guys on sorting out the server issues. I fear it wont help me with my dam internet connection at home though. I think our building has now maxed out its contention ratio :-(
QuoteOriginally posted by OldBloke@Nov 16 2004, 04:40 PM
Announced this coming weekend.
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im dieing with anticipation, tells us already :D
QuoteOriginally posted by Gandalf-LordOfJelly@Nov 16 2004, 07:10 PM
nope, guess again :) be patient. All will be revealed soon.
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Please give me a reason for this secrecy. We are a community and we own the servers. I think we have a right to know. <_<
QuoteOriginally posted by Sadako+Nov 20 2004, 02:29 PM-->QUOTE(Sadako @ Nov 20 2004, 02:29 PM)
Please give me a reason for this secrecy.
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Delicate negotiations.
:)