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Latency Question
Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2026 1:50 pm
by Baithoven
Hello guys,
I have a question re latency.
My interface constantly shows a latency of 313 ms.
never 312, never 314, always exactly 313, even after restarts etc.
Whats up with that?
seems very unlikely. I am not living in EU/NA, so the ping itself is not unrealistic but the fact its stuck on exactly this value lets me question whether the ping-meter is functional.
Love the project btw.
Long live Octowow, in the spirit of the Turtle
Re: Latency Question
Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2026 1:45 am
by Kestrel
Hmmm not totally sure what that is about, not a bug we have experienced ourselves but if you still have the issue after deleting WDB and making sure your client/patches are up to date through the launcher, let us know and we can look into it further.
Re: Latency Question
Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2026 11:51 am
by Mdarlee
Hey,
my brother is experiencing same issue, but higher ping. He got between 300-10000 ms all the time - unable to play. He tested other private servers, and has 23 ms.
He is living near me, so it cant be his location or anything. Im playing constant with 50-70 ms, laggfree. He tested alot - he deleted all addons, all mods, everything. then he activated all mods. he reinstalled the game. He restarted his router - problem keeps staying for 2 days now. Any suggestions?
Re: Latency Question
Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2026 1:18 pm
by Mdarlee
Darktifa wrote: Sun Aug 16, 2026 1:16 pm
Mdarlee wrote: Sun Aug 16, 2026 11:51 am
Hey,
my brother is experiencing same issue, but higher ping. He got between 300-10000 ms all the time - unable to play. He tested other private servers, and has 23 ms.
He is living near me, so it cant be his location or anything. Im playing constant with 50-70 ms, laggfree. He tested alot - he deleted all addons, all mods, everything. then he activated all mods. he reinstalled the game. He restarted his router - problem keeps staying for 2 days now. Any suggestions?
are u on the same ISP though?
No we arent. In the new-update annoucement I already saw that other germans with the same ISP as my brother (telecom) has the same problems since the last update.
Re: Latency Question
Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2026 4:26 pm
by Acemuscle
Sadly it's getting worse. At this state the game is borderline unplayable for us. I don't want to pay for a vpn to play lag free. Kind of defeats the whole purpose of Octo.
Re: Latency Question
Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2026 5:30 pm
by Rtas
Kestrel wrote: Sat Jun 06, 2026 1:45 am
Hmmm not totally sure what that is about, not a bug we have experienced ourselves but if you still have the issue after deleting WDB and making sure your client/patches are up to date through the launcher, let us know and we can look into it further.
Feels like your guys' infrastructure can't handle pop as it pushes past 2K. I'm having the issue with latency when pop starts to creep upwards past the 1.5K mark or so. bout a 2nd to second and a half delay from where I'm connecting from while looting. when pop goes down it stps being an issue, so thats why I'm thinking the up/down speeds or the server itself need a bit of an upgrade
Re: Latency Question
Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2026 7:13 pm
by Hfm1
yo sadly its unplayable from my region. After latest update i lost my raid frames and ended with unplayable ping. 2500ms and more making looting casting spells and everything else a pain.
This project needs to get this shit out the way the old client is such a big hurdle to overcome the install proccess is full of "false" troyans and whatnot and the only server with a healthy pop has terrible performance. Thats not how u attcract new players or keep them interested.
Re: Latency Question
Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2026 8:37 pm
by Rtas
Hfm1 wrote: Sun Aug 16, 2026 7:13 pm
yo sadly its unplayable from my region. After latest update i lost my raid frames and ended with unplayable ping. 2500ms and more making looting casting spells and everything else a pain.
This project needs to get this shit out the way the old client is such a big hurdle to overcome the install proccess is full of "false" troyans and whatnot and the only server with a healthy pop has terrible performance. Thats not how u attcract new players or keep them interested.
Its not trojans, its just false positives. the fact WINDOWS DEFENDER of all things is flagging them tells you it's likely safe. If it wasn't you'd never hear a peep from your AV, let alone Windows Defender.
Windows just hates unsigned drivers and DLLs. its a retard proofing system designed to protect Grandma, Grandpa and Uncle Ned from installing REELMOONAYLINK.COM.EXE
Re: Latency Question
Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2026 9:16 pm
by Uggerbugger
Rtas wrote: Tue Aug 18, 2026 8:37 pm
Hfm1 wrote: Sun Aug 16, 2026 7:13 pm
yo sadly its unplayable from my region. After latest update i lost my raid frames and ended with unplayable ping. 2500ms and more making looting casting spells and everything else a pain.
This project needs to get this shit out the way the old client is such a big hurdle to overcome the install proccess is full of "false" troyans and whatnot and the only server with a healthy pop has terrible performance. Thats not how u attcract new players or keep them interested.
Its not trojans, its just false positives. the fact WINDOWS DEFENDER of all things is flagging them tells you it's likely safe. If it wasn't you'd never hear a peep from your AV, let alone Windows Defender.
Windows just hates unsigned drivers and DLLs. its a retard proofing system designed to protect Grandma, Grandpa and Uncle Ned from installing REELMOONAYLINK.COM.EXE
Windows defender is great, free and on par with other anti virus solutions, hence what you are saying is utter bull. The fact is that playing on private servers is a high risk, high reward thing to do. Launcher or mod makers could add actual trojans tomorrow and you would be none the wiser, because you have simply accepted the risk and turned off your defences. And to be frank, if you do this on the machine you put in your bank details or bitcoin, you should probably rethink that.
That being said, I see a lot of telecom users talking about bad latency, and for some weird reason they think it's the server that's the problem. I find it more likely that you are being throttled by your ISP, hence why using VPN magically makes the server respond faster. Or why I and many others are not experiencing the same problem.
Re: Latency Question
Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2026 2:10 am
by Rtas
Uggerbugger wrote: Wed Aug 19, 2026 9:16 pm
Rtas wrote: Tue Aug 18, 2026 8:37 pm
Hfm1 wrote: Sun Aug 16, 2026 7:13 pm
yo sadly its unplayable from my region. After latest update i lost my raid frames and ended with unplayable ping. 2500ms and more making looting casting spells and everything else a pain.
This project needs to get this shit out the way the old client is such a big hurdle to overcome the install proccess is full of "false" troyans and whatnot and the only server with a healthy pop has terrible performance. Thats not how u attcract new players or keep them interested.
Its not trojans, its just false positives. the fact WINDOWS DEFENDER of all things is flagging them tells you it's likely safe. If it wasn't you'd never hear a peep from your AV, let alone Windows Defender.
Windows just hates unsigned drivers and DLLs. its a retard proofing system designed to protect Grandma, Grandpa and Uncle Ned from installing REELMOONAYLINK.COM.EXE
Windows defender is great, free and on par with other anti virus solutions, hence what you are saying is utter bull. The fact is that playing on private servers is a high risk, high reward thing to do. Launcher or mod makers could add actual trojans tomorrow and you would be none the wiser, because you have simply accepted the risk and turned off your defences. And to be frank, if you do this on the machine you put in your bank details or bitcoin, you should probably rethink that.
That being said, I see a lot of telecom users talking about bad latency, and for some weird reason they think it's the server that's the problem. I find it more likely that you are being throttled by your ISP, hence why using VPN magically makes the server respond faster. Or why I and many others are not experiencing the same problem.
Defender is a joke, like all AVs are. The strongest, BEST, AV is you not being a mouth breather and downloading realwowhack.exe and running it as admin so it can steal your AIM password. You don't have to turn off your AV or Defender for any decent malware to take whatever it wants. More potent viral payloads just disguise themselves or infect the AV directly to make them seem safe.