Char Lags - World goes on - BAD LAG

So after being smooth for a few days, I finally got hit with what I assume is lag -

My char was frozen, however everything around me was still moving around and active. Even my HP bar kept going down, but I could not move or do anything, no input, and my char stuck in mid animation.

Thought I'd add my voice with the others experiencing the same.

same thing happened to me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's happened to me as well. Thankfully it happens only on occasion but when it starts to occur I usually stop playing. Unfortunately when it starts it tends to continue every few moments to every minute or so. At that point the game becomes unplayable so I just walk away.

Sometimes it gets so bad I actually time out and get disconnected. I can normally log right back in, however. Again, when I do it is usually to get to a safe spot like an inn to log for the time being. Nothing sucks more to be out hunting and going along fine, then-BAM-frozen in lag while an ogre is trying to cave your face in.

Got one of those yesterday in hidden valley. Our celeb peepin tom threw an EV at me and i couldn't cure, couldn't heal, couldn't move but i could definitely see my health dropping.
Strange issue, i usually have a good conn

lollo said:

Got one of those yesterday in hidden valley. Our celeb peepin tom threw an EV at me and i couldn't cure, couldn't heal, couldn't move but i could definitely see my health dropping.
Strange issue, i usually have a good conn

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My connection is good too. It has to be a server issue.

Ahh.. good ole' Peepin' Tom rears his head again it sounds. He only got me twice yesterday. First time with EVs too. Second time I don't know.. I was macroing and had gone to do the dishes. Came back to a grey screen asking if I wanted to give him a count.

I smiled, said no, and carried on.

lollo said:

Got one of those yesterday in hidden valley. Our celeb peepin tom threw an EV at me and i couldn't cure, couldn't heal, couldn't move but i could definitely see my health dropping.
Strange issue, i usually have a good conn

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It's caused by high latency. Basically this means that you are downloading data fine but there is a huge lag for any data that you upload (ie, commands to the UO client). So, the world continues around you while waiting on your delayed commands.

Ping and Latency are two different things, in fact they are both different than your bandwidth too. Ping and Latency typically have to do with the route that the internet takes to get from you to a server. If that route is screwy for whatever reason, your internet performance will be degraded. This is what is happening right now. With the crazy snow and other issues going on with the networks today, some of the routes to UOF are congested or have low data rates.

We are working with our host to re-route these paths to make the performance better for those affected.

If you are experiencing high latency, please see this post and provide the details requested there: http://uoforum.com/threads/experiencing-latency-issues.46573/#post-296297

I have the same exact issue. I have worked with my isp techs over and over and over..... and have had many linetechs out. The bad hop(s) are on the server side. The last server was 100% fine, NEVER a problem

I have posted the MTR in the post listed above......
I live ONE state away from the server... the bad hop is #10.... the one right before the server.

Sunday 23.11.2014 ~22.00 GMT
-ping at 120ms to 650ms
lags in the server to client stream including timeouts/connection resets -> unplayable, got approached and killed by a weak mob between 2 consecutive frames. had problems looting my corpse in time even though nothing apart from the lag was hindering me.
from location north germany

i think this is quite a severe problem for the whole service and should be adressed asap.

same problem here since yesterday about 800 ms