Lousy game server connection? Am I understanding this correctly?

So lately I've been having a lousy internet connection to the game I'm playing. The name in question is called Tibia, and uses a DDoS protection service called prolexic.

Correct me if I'm wrong;

Tibia is sent through port 7171 (according to the internet), so I use a netstat -n command in order to find out what ip address I need in order to trace the route, which came up as:

TCP 192.168.1.3:60376 66.150.54.46:7171 ESTABLISHED

Now, I follow up by using tracert 66.150.54.46 to get this:

  • 2 8 ms 10 ms 6 ms 10.138.64.1

  • 3 7 ms 7 ms 7 ms ti0029a400-ge1-2-1.ti.telenor.net [62.92.249.253

  • 4 68 ms 71 ms 73 ms ti0029c400-ae3-0.ti.telenor.net [146.172.102.1]

  • 5 65 ms 66 ms 66 ms ti0050c400-ae0-0.ti.telenor.net [146.172.100.173

  • 6 74 ms 69 ms 70 ms ti0024c400-ae4-0.ti.telenor.net [146.172.98.30]

  • 7 68 ms 72 ms 69 ms ti0005c400-ae7-0.ti.telenor.net [146.172.98.130]

  • 8 65 ms 65 ms 65 ms ti0001c360-ae77-0.ti.telenor.net [146.172.98.197

  • 9 75 ms 67 ms 66 ms ti3004c400-ae5-0.ti.telenor.net [146.172.100.38]

  • 10 68 ms 66 ms 68 ms ti9002b400-ae3-0.ti.telenor.net [146.172.105.6]

  • 11 70 ms 69 ms 72 ms blackhole.prolexic.com [195.66.224.31]

  • 12 69 ms 72 ms 70 ms unknown.prolexic.com [72.52.60.35]

  • 13 * * * Request timed out.

  • 14 145 ms 142 ms 143 ms unknown.prolexic.com [209.200.144.164]

  • 15 154 ms 155 ms 155 ms unknown.prolexic.com [209.200.169.144]

  • 16 * * * Request timed out.

  • 21 ^C

So according to this, everything is fine until my connection reaches their ddos protection thingie and then my connection gets shafted? If so, is there anything I can do?

Posted Mar 23, 2015, 5:44 PM UTC · edited

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somnodoc•

prolexic will not* allow for ping, traceroute, finger or other such network protocols. If, and that's a quite large if, prolexic were your problem there wouldn't be anything you could do to fix it.

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SetriathOP•

prolexic will now

Is it ment to be now or not?

If so, it does correspond to the latency I actually get in game though - is it a mere coincidence?

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somnodoc•

Not*

It could bet prolexic, it could also be a ton of other things. Without knowing more about your connection, how far you are away from the server you're trying to connect with and how your connection behaves with other games; I can't rule out other causes

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SetriathOP•

All the other games I play runs smoothly, the only exception is Tibia. The server is located in the US, while I live in Europe.

Tibia is known for having lousy servers though.

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