What the?l: Why does it lag so much?

[Hardy]

Originally Posted by Valhalla

For some reason, once I get to the sign in screen, on emu or live, after I press connect, it lags hardcore for about 30 seconds, then says " establishing connection with login queue ( or whatever it normally says), about 30 seconds later it says "login request added to queue" then usually a "cannot connect" error or the odd time I get to the screen and its incredibly laggy, it takes me a good 2 minutes to get my mouse over the server I want to go on, and then another minute to press enter, then finally the screen goes black and brings me back to the server screen with a 1017 error.

So, yeah, if you understood that run-on sentence, does anyone know what the problem is. Pretty much, it's insanely laggy and slow and I cant get on...

Is this because of the graphic change engine they did or whatever?
I don't have one of those ATI Radeons or whatever they said you needed-just the same card I had before-32 mb

Need a response, asap, please.

EDIT: By the way, if this has already been posted several times, I apologize because I did scroll through and didn't find this topic.

I had this EXACT same problem for 1 week straight. And this is how it went:

I called EQ Tech, they did a trace and for some reason the trace was stopping short 150 miles east of me, it would not go through! They told me to call my ISP, so I called Charter and told them the IP it was stopping at and they said "Oh, thats an AT&T IP Address", kinda confused I called AT&T and they looked and it showed everything ok at that IP. I then tried to connect to EQ on my moms computer which is on the EXACT same connection (using a router) and it worked! So right then I knew it was something wrong with my computer, I tried so much, finally i said "F it" and reformated cause i been having problems anyway, I get windows back installed, put back on EQ and guess what... it worked. I have not had that error yet.

Hope this helped, you are having the exact same symptoms I had with my computer, long time to log in, server screen blank till finally servers showed up a min later, click enter world and wait 2min and it comes back 1017.