Testing ping for the game.

SilentWater [10]

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Saturday, November 4th 2017, 9:30am

Hi,

Can the admin/devs or any player answer this please.
I am testing my connection for performance, which server do we need to ping to measure game performance?

Currently i'm trying warofdragons.com.

Thanks.

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Saturday, November 4th 2017, 10:24am

Well, I don't think it really matters. The servers are probably all in Russia. ("But kehul, teh gem iz a parht of da my.kom, not mail.ru" well, i wonder who owns my.com)

But of course, it could also be that all of the servers are in their mainlands. Then again, who would bother getting 1 server from Russia to Britain?

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akyr [20]

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Saturday, November 4th 2017, 10:42am

the server blocks ping requests always (ICMP Echo Requests) - so there is no way to check the status with a ping .

btw. servers are located in Netherlands

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Saturday, November 4th 2017, 1:24pm

Quoted from "akyr"

the server blocks ping requests always (ICMP Echo Requests) - so there is no way to check the status with a ping .

btw. servers are located in Netherlands

tracert the servers.

I'm getting 365ms when I connect through my VPN (Singapore realm)
And 166ms when connecting through Netherlands.
180+ on germany.

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Saturday, November 4th 2017, 1:28pm

Quoted from "SilentWater"

Quoted from "akyr"

the server blocks ping requests always (ICMP Echo Requests) - so there is no way to check the status with a ping .

btw. servers are located in Netherlands

tracert the servers.

I'm getting 365ms when I connect through my VPN (Singapore realm)
And 166ms when connecting through Netherlands.
180+ on germany.

akyr is right.. I tried to tracert the servers in the past also and after first four responses it went on being denied and an admin explained servers are protectedfrom ping and the answer you get is misleading (redirected i believe).

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Saturday, November 4th 2017, 1:30pm

Quoted from "Dzaack"

Quoted from "SilentWater"

Quoted from "akyr"

the server blocks ping requests always (ICMP Echo Requests) - so there is no way to check the status with a ping .

btw. servers are located in Netherlands

tracert the servers.

I'm getting 365ms when I connect through my VPN (Singapore realm)
And 166ms when connecting through Netherlands.
180+ on germany.

akyr is right.. I tried to tracert the servers in the past also and after first four responses it went on being denied and an admin explained servers are protectedfrom ping and the answer you get is misleading (redirected i believe).

Yes they are protected against DDoS, but it only stops when they reach the final hop. If you're getting ** then its fine because that's supposed to happen.
Its easy to extrapolate the last hop from the last ping you get.

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Saturday, November 4th 2017, 1:32pm

true but not if the actual respons you get is not accurate.. as I've said, I guess your attempt to ping the server is redirected to another adress.

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Saturday, November 4th 2017, 1:35pm

That doesn't really matter. Once you hit the redirect server, you know that the packet is taking X ms to reach that server. No matter the other things, there won't be much other hops after that redirect server. So its safely assumed that the maximum ping you get is 50% higher than the last ping.

I did this with another game, and the results were accurate.