How to get rid of Lag Spikes in PWI

MagicChu - Sanctuary
MagicChu - Sanctuary Posts: 79 Arc User
edited June 2012 in General Discussion
After being fed up with all the lagging in PWI, I decided to investigate by downloading NetWorkx to monitor and trace the lag. I discovered that my computer was continuously uploading something at 100KB/s <--which is my max upload speed. For all of those on Cable internet or DSL, if you upload reaches near its max your download speed will drop by 70-90%. This means vent, downloading, etc.. will drop like a rock.

After some trial and error, I came to this process called PMB.exe. Apparently this was a program that people used to download PWI called Pando Media Booster. The initial thought was that it was only used to download PWI and should have gotten rid of itself after that. However, it kept on running...in the background like some trojan or more like a Bitorrent you never asked for. I did a netstat on this program and saw it was connecting me to about 15-20 other IP addresses and uploading to them. I suspect PWI used this program which works like a Bitorrent and never told us about it.

If you downloaded PWI via the normal bitorrent route you probably won't have this issue.
If you downloaded PWI from a long time ago, the PMB can't torrent that since it's out of date and no longer tracked. Likely it won't affect you as much.

How to get rid of it:
1. Go to Control Panel
2. Go to Program and Features
3. Find Pando Media Booster
4. Uninstall it.

And you are done. Welcome to 123 Ping instead of 1.3k or even 3k ping.
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  • USSRbm - Heavens Tear
    USSRbm - Heavens Tear Posts: 56 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    MagicChu - Sanctuary wrote: »
    I suspect PWI used this program which works like a Bitorrent and never told us about it.

    wrong b:bye
  • MagicChu - Sanctuary
    MagicChu - Sanctuary Posts: 79 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    USSRbm - Heavens Tear wrote: »
    wrong b:bye

    You do the netstats and trace routes yourself and show me I am wrong.
  • Aasaf - Sanctuary
    Aasaf - Sanctuary Posts: 356 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    MagicChu - Sanctuary wrote: »

    If you downloaded PWI via the normal bitorrent route you probably won't have this issue.
    If you downloaded PWI from a long time ago, the PMB can't torrent that since it's out of date and no longer tracked. Likely it won't affect you as much.

    And you are done. Welcome to 123 Ping instead of 1.3k or even 3k ping.

    I'll keep on trying to find a solution for myself. I looked for the above program, couldn't find it, but i downloaded it from a torrent 2 years ago, unlikely to find it.

    Thanks for posting your solution, hope it helps others.

    USSRbm is just increasing his post count, don't mind that user b:chuckle. Most likely the reply will not make sense, and that will be the end of it.
  • SylenThunder - Twilight Temple
    SylenThunder - Twilight Temple Posts: 7,908
    edited June 2012
    USSRbm - Heavens Tear wrote: »
    wrong b:bye
    Actually, they are correct. Panda Media Booster is the torrent-like cloud server downloader that PWI uses to download the installation files to your computer before installing the client. It's the fake "Direct Download" option.

    And yes, it can cause lag spikes if you don't have a particularly good connection.
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  • KawaiiJen - Heavens Tear
    KawaiiJen - Heavens Tear Posts: 2,461 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    There are 3rd party programs that force your processes to close but your game.... but those can have bad results and or make things worse for your computer. It's like trying to over clock something beyond the point it can handle....

    I believe this is the most common one people know.

    Game Booster

    You are correct in that Pando uses you as a seed for the torrents for people to download their game from. So uninstalling can help, however if you ever uninstall PW and need to reinstall it Pando will be reinstalled as well.

    Oh and because I was bored at work...
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  • Deceptistar - Sanctuary
    Deceptistar - Sanctuary Posts: 10,454 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    seems like the tards of the forum have leveled up? last i came, the 105s were a bit brighter in the head

    anyway

    i agree that its similar to bitorrent, ive seen other online games use this program to help install theirs

    also reinstalling pando only takes few seconds. So the hassle isnt even a problem. Most of the time it is auto
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  • KawaiiJen - Heavens Tear
    KawaiiJen - Heavens Tear Posts: 2,461 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    Deceptistar - Sanctuary wrote: »
    seems like the tards of the forum have leveled up? last i came, the 105s were a bit brighter in the head

    anyway

    i agree that its similar to bitorrent, ive seen other online games use this program to help install theirs

    also reinstalling pando only takes few seconds. So the hassle isnt even a problem. Most of the time it is auto

    I take offense to that b:surrender
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  • _blood_rain - Sanctuary
    _blood_rain - Sanctuary Posts: 2,532 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    Nice work Chuchu :O
  • Tigress_eye - Sanctuary
    Tigress_eye - Sanctuary Posts: 16 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    b:cuteb:thanks Thank you Chu :D maybe now I'll lag a lot less in tw lmao
  • Bubbles - Morai
    Bubbles - Morai Posts: 1,143 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    Old news is old, pmb has been plaguing f2p mmos since forever.

    It's been the standard process now that no matter what the alternatives are, never use pmb, and if you have to use pmb, uninstall it immediately after dling a game.

    PMB isn't exactly malware, it's just a piece of **** ware that doesn't tell the truth. If you check their site they claim pmb won't be eating up bandwidth after dling a game which in reality, it does.
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  • _Skai_ - Raging Tide
    _Skai_ - Raging Tide Posts: 3,407 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    LOL Crapware. I like that name.
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  • Khallie - Sanctuary
    Khallie - Sanctuary Posts: 71 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    Thank you, found it and uninstalled. Hopefully that will fix it!
  • TempleSlave - Lost City
    TempleSlave - Lost City Posts: 324 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    MagicChu - Sanctuary wrote: »
    stuff

    Aside from being completely wrong and knowing absolutely nothing about computers, you're not so far from the truth.

    How to get rid of lag spikes in PWI? Log off.

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  • thumbs
    thumbs Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    Basically what this is: a Trojan.

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