Hi all, this is my first post here so be kind
Im a World Of Warcraft player and i play the game using NTL stand alone cable directly to my PC.
Im only on the 2Mb service and for over a year it has served me well, im from the Manchester area close to Baguley in Wythenshaw btw.
Recently starting on Wednesday 8th of March i have been having latency issues in WoW were normally it has been fine for many months.
Where latency is usually 50-200ms it has started to sky rocket from anywhere ranging between 1000ms up to 8000ms+ making the game unplayable.
After reading many problems with latency and dissconnecting issues by other World of Warcraft players from the UK also using NTL i started to look around and that's how i ended up here.
I have tried everything i can think of (wich admittedly isnt much) , ran many trace routes, tried many different network settings, tried connecting at different times of the day, checked my modem, tried different network cards, reconnected everything etc.
Always the same result, whenever i am surrounded by other players or engaged in large battles my latency starts to sky rocket to 1000ms+.
I get "freeze lag" and players run around in a circle or off into the distance etc
When im on my own far from other players my latency is fine around the 50-200ms mark.
I know other players on the same server as me who use BT ADSL and they have no problems at all.
Anyways...
After reading most of this mammoth thread seems im not alone.
Is it that NTL have problems atm and there's nothing i can do except wait for them to resolve it?
I was hoping the NTL network optomisation maintainence work this morning (12am - 6am Friday 17th) would of resolved the issue as my area is one of the area's listed but unfortunatly it did not.
I dont know what to do anymore, having tried all i can think of i still cannot play the game like i used to be able to for getting close to 2 weeks and im starting to look at BT ADSL as a better option
