Hosting Change & Maintenance Info

TeaLeaf · August 14, 2007, 10:44:24 AM

As of yesterday dMw moved its hardware from the Hi-Velocity racks in IP House to our new host's racks in Telehouse North (Docklands, London). Our new hosts are Brightstar Associates.

Already a quick check seems to show a much better ping and a cleaner connection, so we are very hopeful that the new host will provide us with the quality, low latency bandwidth we have been seeking.

Not all in the move has been plain sailing however and we have just identified what we believe to be a hardware fault with the firewall. A support call has been placed and we hope to have some resolution on this shortly. However in the mean time until the firewall fault is resolved then when connected to the dMw servers you might notice some occasional dropouts.

Thank you all for your patience and we hope that we can return to our usual low-latency gaming imminently!

TL.

KKND · August 14, 2007, 10:53:15 AM

Great work....:yahoo:

Jamoe · August 14, 2007, 11:41:57 AM

Good stuff, thanks to all those involved?

Hektor · August 14, 2007, 03:08:02 PM

Quote from: KKND;201474Great work....:yahoo:

indeed! yesterday i had a latency about 28 :woot2:
we were only 4 guys on the server, maybe itll increase when there are more...
but i think ive noticed a positive change in the gameplay :g:

Phog · August 14, 2007, 03:38:14 PM

I must say, how long have they been hosted on Hi-Velocity!!

(And hi btw :byebye:)

Jamoe · August 14, 2007, 03:40:07 PM

must be getting on for 2/3 years with Hi-V.

edit:

Heres a post from Dec 2004 where we first started to use Hi-V to supply broadband.

http://www.deadmen.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=8100&highlight=velocity

Benny · August 14, 2007, 08:21:24 PM

Quote from: TeaLeaf;201471As of yesterday dMw moved its hardware from the Hi-Velocity racks in IP House to our new host's racks in Telehouse North (Docklands, London). Our new hosts are Brightstar Associates.

TL.

What suite are you in,out of purely professional interest...?

TeaLeaf · August 14, 2007, 10:55:54 PM

Star Suite.

TL.

Hektor · August 15, 2007, 03:47:58 PM

ive a question:
when i played on the servers here, the gameplay was a bit insufficient.
one or two month ago whitey helped me to change the "rates" (i still dont know what exactly ive done). well, i changed them for example from 3500 to 10000.
this was a great improvement,
but unfotunately espacially for the others because before ive made the change, it was very hard for them to hit me, but now... :doh:
however, now that the server has a new host, or a different connection, is it necessary to change those rates again, in order to re-adjust them to the new connection?

delanvital · August 15, 2007, 03:54:05 PM

Cheers for that admins :thumb:

KKND · August 15, 2007, 04:03:40 PM

Quote from: Hektor;201623ive a question:
when i played on the servers here, the gameplay was a bit insufficient.
one or two month ago whitey helped me to change the "rates" (i still dont know what exactly ive done). well, i changed them for example from 3500 to 10000.
this was a great improvement,
but unfotunately espacially for the others because before ive made the change, it was very hard for them to hit me, but now... :doh:
however, now that the server has a new host, or a different connection, is it necessary to change those rates again, in order to re-adjust them to the new connection?

No m8 you dont have too change your rates again .

TeaLeaf · August 15, 2007, 04:42:49 PM

Quote from: Hektor;201623is it necessary to change those rates again, in order to re-adjust them to the new connection?

Broadbly speaking you should just to be able to leave them alone.

TL.

Hektor · August 15, 2007, 07:50:13 PM

Quote from: TeaLeaf;201629Broadbly speaking you should just to be able to leave them alone.

TL.

sorry, im afraid i dont understand what you mean :sad:
do you mean the same what kknd said?

T e c h N i c a l · August 15, 2007, 09:06:22 PM

Quote from: Hektor;201646sorry, im afraid i dont understand what you mean :sad:
do you mean the same what kknd said?

Yes, he did.

I've been having problems on Boomer with Voice comms; whenever someone uses them, I get really bad lag, and it gets worse when more people use it, and is horrid if I use it. Any idea what could cause this?

EDIT: This doesn't happen on any other servers, although haven't tried it on MH or Baldric so far.

T-Bag · August 15, 2007, 09:41:44 PM

With Rates you set it to your connection speed, so no matter what server you're on it should be fine.
If people find it hard to hit you then it's probably their rates that are causing it, so it's not your problem. (is it that bad if they can't hit you?)