Recent zone loading freezes, crashes, & failure to connect to server

[Fleetwood]

As of the last couple days I've been having the same problems.
Crashing on zone, Crashing on /camp, freeze on login, and sometimes very delayed spell casts and mouse clicking issues.

Nothing on my end has changed and I don't stream/download stuff while I'm playing so I'm assuming this is server side.

East coast Canada here as well with a good connection.

[hamirez]

I am crashing as well. 80% of times I zone. Sometime blackscreen others the game freezes. Reve to reestart my computer because I was playing on fullscreen. Now I just play windowed to ctrl+alt+del the game when needed.

[thedonkdonk]

MTR to port 9000 (same port the game runs on) on login.eqemulator.net. Via a Raspberry Pi on the same network as my Windows 7 PC I game on. Same public IP as this post. On Google Fiber in Kansas City.

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You can see the packet loss happens once we hit choopa.net. The hosting provider. 2.7% packet loss is normal enough on a traceroute for an edge router. It can be busy enough that it will drop these kind of diagnostic packets but still do regular traffic just fine.

The 54.5% packet loss on the last hop is at least a symptom of what ever issue.

It's not an AT&T issue or a Google Fiber issue.

Here is one from a colocation datacenter I use in Kansas City. It uses Hurricane Electric. Same packet losses.

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Another from a Chicago Rackspace Cloud Server. It uses Comcast.

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[greena03]

Whole lot of kansas city people playing that old ass EQ in here.

[TacoSmasher]

East coast canada here. just got Bell Fiber op installed today and been having this issue. Didnt have the problem at the other place before i moved, same ISP.

Seems like something changed on the server side recently. There have been multiple server reboots over the last few days correct?

[Grimjaw]

looks like its failing after that specific Choopa hop for everyone however u'll need to go thru ur ISP for resolution

[feanan]

Tech support, may I help you?

Umm, yes, hi, I play this 17 year old emulated game called everquest, and 40% of the time I can't log in, it appears that its the Choopa hop, can you help me?

I can imagine the laughter from here...

[Hunky]

I've had success using PIA VPN out of Seattle, no issues since. Hopefully I dont have to use it for very long.

[TacoSmasher]

issue seems to be resolved for me as of yesterday

[delfi]

This has just begun happening to me. I crash when zoning, logging in, even the minute i loot my corpse I'll crash.

Not just me, friends on different internets/computers have been experiencing same issue.