Unusual Combat Related Lag

The last 3 days I've been getting horrendous spikes during combat, across all servers and zones. My netgraph is all over the place once I engage in combat. At first I thought it was some of the combat feedback functions, but after disabling all buffs and effects it was still occurring. I've gone so far as to turn all effects down to minimal, that leaves me to believe it isn't effects or buff data that is causing the issue.

I've ran the NCSoft Network Utility and nothing abnormal shows up. I've talked to my ISP and there is no noise with the line or any issue with the NCSoft servers that they can see.

I haven't changed anything in the last 3 days that could account for it on my end. I've powered off the entire network in case there was some erroneous data interfering with the connection and still nothing.

I'm at a complete loss as to what is causing it. Is anyone else familiar with this type of issue?

Lag is always tricky because there are so many factors that come into play. If you could post a CoH Helper log, we might be able to find a reason for it.

Also, what do you mean by "all over the place"? Are you seeing high green, yellow or red in your netgraph?

We'll see....

It seems to be mainly AoE effects that cause it. I was on a team last night with my Fire/Fire Tanker, and there was a Shield/Elec Tanker. We'd jump into a mob, he'd throw off Shield Charge and Lightning Rod while I was throwing off Combustion and Fire Sword Circle, and I'd lag so bad that the game would freeze, and I'd see Lost Connection To Map Server. And this was with my settings turned down to the minimum.

After he left for the night, a Willpower/Fire Tanker came in, and while I was having no issues, he was getting the lag.

I've talked to other people in the game who have the same problem. And none of us had this problem until after the Winter Event started.

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I've had a similar experience although I can't guarantee whether it is on my end or not (yet). Once I finish a couple of projects off I'll try to delve into it more, but right now I've notice lag during prime time (6-12 PST) that tends to clear up beyond that.