Why the lag??

[harry.sollog]

I'm playing eq2(Everquest2) on a 3 year old computer roughly. I've made some upgrades, and changed location. I'm experiencing choppiness, lag etc. Even when i'm playing on the LOWEST performance settings.

My system is:
DFI LANPARTY nF4 Ultra- motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 2.2 GHz processsor
Nvidia 7800 GT video card
2 Gb of Kingston DDR2 RAM
Western Digital Raptor 36Gb SATA 1.5Gb/s HDrive
19" LCD monitor running at 1280x1024
Road Runner High Speed Online(9800kb/s download, and 380 kb/s upload)
Windows XP

After inspecting EQ2's website for recommended system req's i realized that i surpassed the minimum AND the recommended.
So I decided to inspect my network. I saw that my ping is consistently close to 800 and my Fps is closer to 10, or even 6 when i'm running around in zone. I have NO OTHER programs running in the background. After noticing this trouble I ran a Trace test to the Befallen server from 2 different locations the first was My EQ computer and it read out as follows:



Tracing route to ableq2-01-01.everquest2.com [199.108.202.33]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 7 ms 8 ms 7 ms 10.108.48.1
2 8 ms 11 ms 8 ms pos0-0.rochnystf-rtr01.nyroc.rr.com [24.93.2.81]

3 11 ms 11 ms 7 ms srp2-0.rochnybtn-rtr01.nyroc.rr.com [24.93.3.120
]
4 284 ms 294 ms 285 ms ge-6-0-0.albynywav-rtr03.nyroc.rr.com [24.92.224
.122]
5 279 ms 284 ms 316 ms ae-5-0.cr0.nyc30.tbone.rr.com [66.109.6.74]
6 303 ms 302 ms 311 ms ae-1-0.pr0.nyc20.tbone.rr.com [66.109.6.163]
7 305 ms 312 ms 293 ms tge5-3.fr4.lga.llnw.net [69.28.152.241]
8 300 ms 307 ms 317 ms tge2-3.fr4.iad.llnw.net [69.28.171.153]
9 37 ms 34 ms 36 ms sony.ge4-12.fr4.iad.llnw.net [69.28.156.214]
10 318 ms 306 ms 312 ms vl47.ashaens-2.sonyonline.net [64.37.144.181]
11 306 ms 306 ms 303 ms ableq2-01-01.everquest2.com [199.108.202.33]

Trace complete.

After running more traces... i got a pretty consistent 300ms outcome.
Wondering If someone can explain the trouble i seem to be having here?? Why the jump and delay?

[flanzig1]

Ping time of 800ms is pretty long and would indicate network/ISP problems.
Just did a ping to the Everquest IP in your test and got a 64ms time.

[glc]

It's definitely an ISP issue because your ping times to the ISP's first and second router are fine. That looks like quite a bit of lag between Rochester and Albany.