Strange Delay - Anyone Else?

Heya folks.

I'm contacting support on my own to try and get some help, but I just wanted to survey the playerbase and see if anyone else is having this problem.

Starting around midnight every night (Eastern), I start getting a strange delay between the time I press a button and the time the power activates. Sometimes it can be as bad as 2-3 seconds, but usually it's just a 1-2 second delay.

When I first experienced the problem, I naturally assumed it was on my end. But now I've done everything I can think of to fix it and it's still not going away:

-I checked my connectivity...everything was fine (though the connection itself is kind of slow...but I don't have any problems during "prime time" playing hours).

-I made sure I had all the latest video, audio, and mobo drivers.

-I lowered the graphics as low as they'll go.

When none of this worked, I went and checked if the delay was present in any other MMOs I play and it wasn't. Every other game is perfectly responsive. No delay between the time I activate a power and the time the character actually executes the action in the game.

Just to clarify, I have NO lag issues, NO rubber-banding, and movement is completely unaffected. The delay is only present for power activation, chat, and any other action within the game such as talking to contacts, opening doors, selling items, etc.

I've been trying to fix this myself for a few months, and I wouldn't bring it up here unless I was completely clueless as to what this might be or how I can fix it.

So is anyone having this problem? If you are (or even if you aren't) do you have any tips for me on how I can fix it?

Thanks a lot!

What map are you on when you experience this, and is it with all powers, or only powers that have recently recharged?

Are you the only one on your cable? Any chance there might be somebody else who starts downloading or uploading around that time?

And the way you check your connectivity while in game is to type /netgraph 1

You will start to see colored bars in the lower right of your screen. short green indicate good connectivity. Tall green indicate high ping times. I don't remember what yellow is, probably extremely high transmission times. Red is lost packets.

Yeah, I'm the only one on at that time of night. There is one other computer connected to the same router, but it's connected wirelessly and it is usually in sleep mode by that time at night. I even just went ahead and turned it off when the delay happened one night and it didn't fix it.

If it always happens around midnight every night, it may be an automatic service running, like defrag or antivirus check.

Well, if you have wireless set up (and obviously you do) then I would suggest changing your router password (you do have password enabled right?) because if you live close enough to somebody else they may be using your network.

One thing you can try is when the slowdown time is getting close disconnect your router from the modem and connect your computer directly to it. If you don't experience the slowdown then it must be something to do with the router. If you do experience the problem then it has to be your computer or the service provider.

And lastly, I've found CoH to be much much more sensitive to lost packets than any other MMO. It takes very little to cause delays and rubberbanding and no more than a couple seconds of lost connection to mapserve the game dropping you back to the login screen.