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Network Upgrades [5/28 6PM PST]

pwlaughingtrendypwlaughingtrendy Member Posts: 2,966 Arc User
edited May 2015 in Galactic News Network [PC]
We’ll be performing a network upgrades this Thursday at 6PM PST. We'll be monitoring the process for Captains to ensure little downtime.
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    pwlaughingtrendypwlaughingtrendy Member Posts: 2,966 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    We'll be moving digital pipe thingies from one thingy to another thingy! This may cause a little trouble as they pull the pipe thing over. I think? That's mostly metaphorical.

    Either way, good stuff!
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    primar13primar13 Member Posts: 1,896 Bug Hunter
    edited May 2015
    pwlaughingtrendy wrote: »
    We'll be moving digital pipe thingies from one thingy to another thingy! This may cause a little trouble as they pull the pipe thing over. I think? That's mostly metaphorical.

    Either way, good stuff!

    So you are just rearranging the Pipe runs in the Hamster Cage?
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    jbmaverickjbmaverick Member Posts: 935 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    Pretty sure they're rearranging the water pipes in the warp core area, maybe to find out what purpose they actually serve (I couldn't find a link to that scene from the 2009 film for some reason).
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    empireofsteveempireofsteve Member Posts: 665 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    I assume that this is going to start the new pay gate that is pay to play without lag? Buy an anti lag token for $20 and receive 1 hour of no lag? Omg FIRE EVERYONE! Internet runs on cables NOT PIPES! Pipes are for liquids!
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    iconiansiconians Member Posts: 6,987 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    pwlaughingtrendy wrote: »
    We'll be moving digital pipe thingies from one thingy to another thingy! This may cause a little trouble as they pull the pipe thing over. I think? That's mostly metaphorical.

    Either way, good stuff!

    I thought the internet fluid looked a little thick from my last traceroute to Cryptic's server.
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    jorantomalakjorantomalak Member Posts: 7,133 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    pwlaughingtrendy wrote: »
    We'll be moving digital pipe thingies from one thingy to another thingy! This may cause a little trouble as they pull the pipe thing over. I think? That's mostly metaphorical.

    Either way, good stuff!

    Uhm you can actually say stuff about playing with digital pipes on the forum :eek:

    And putting them into thingies and what not ? :eek:
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    orion0029orion0029 Member Posts: 1,122 Bug Hunter
    edited May 2015
    Digital pipes?

    Where's that Italian plumber when you need him... :P

    Lol, seriously, good luck with the... umm stuff.

    Oh, any idea on what this actually means 'player side', when finished? Like less lag, or just cooler running servers?
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    darkknightucfdarkknightucf Member Posts: 1,546 Media Corps
    edited May 2015
    pwlaughingtrendy wrote: »
    We'll be moving digital pipe thingies from one thingy to another thingy! This may cause a little trouble as they pull the pipe thing over. I think? That's mostly metaphorical.

    Either way, good stuff!

    Hi,

    Could we get an interview w/ one of your network engineers working on this, please?

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    robyvisionrobyvision Member Posts: 293 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    pwlaughingtrendy wrote: »
    We'll be moving digital pipe thingies from one thingy to another thingy! This may cause a little trouble as they pull the pipe thing over. I think? That's mostly metaphorical.

    Either way, good stuff!

    So you're saying that you are rerouting the main computer through the secondary eps conduit. You sure that it won't blow up ?
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    berginsbergins Member Posts: 3,453 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    robyvision wrote: »
    So you're saying that you are rerouting the main computer through the secondary eps conduit. You sure that it won't blow up ?
    I'm pretty sure she said she wasn't sure it wouldn't blow up:
    pwlaughingtrendy wrote: »
    We'll be moving digital pipe thingies from one thingy to another thingy! This may cause a little trouble as they pull the pipe thing over. I think? That's mostly metaphorical.
    Perhaps most frightening is:
    pwlaughingtrendy wrote: »
    Either way, good stuff!
    Pretty sure things not working isn't good, Trendy. ;) lol

    Here's to an explosionless transition!
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    duncanidaho11duncanidaho11 Member Posts: 7,973 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    robyvision wrote: »
    So you're saying that you are rerouting the main computer through the secondary eps conduit. You sure that it won't blow up ?

    Unless cryptic's set their building up with a main deflector this can only end badly. :P
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    delsabereduxdelsaberedux Member Posts: 244 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    Actually, it's a series of tubes.
    Relax.
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    khamseenairkhamseenair Member Posts: 2,640 Bug Hunter
    edited May 2015
    Well this explains the SNR disconnect I got earlier and why when I logged back in half of my friends list logged back in moments later.
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    eradicator84eradicator84 Member Posts: 1,116 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    darkknightucf wrote: »
    Hi,

    Could we get an interview w/ one of your network engineers working on this, please?

    Please this ^


    We get no communication from members of the network operations centre, and they're the ones I presume that are responsible for server performance and stability, upgrades etc.
    Yet we hear nothing from them.

    All we get is
    pwlaughingtrendy wrote: »
    moving digital pipe thingies from one thingy to another thingy!
    which is, with all due respect, unprofessional.

    Having someone who knows what they're talking about summarise more precisely what's happening, and why, would be nice.

    Estimated down time?
    Why is it happening?
    Is it to fix network issues many have been encountering of late?
    Is it an upgrade?
    Replacing faulty hardware?


    Wavey hands "thingy stuff happening", doesn't help our understanding of what's happening.
    Cause if service resumes and there's still network issues for many, lag, SNRs etc, people will start questioning what they even did.

    Having a proper understanding at the beginning, helps prevent tears later by informing our expectations.
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    thedancingfoxthedancingfox Member Posts: 30 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    eradicator84 wrote: »
    Please this ^

    <snip>

    Well expressed, eradicator84.


    Quite possible the best post I've read on the forum, and I've lurked a lot.

    A little information would go a long way.

    I for example, have not been able to patch all of today (just in now, finally). The account server would time out, or it would get to 5% or 20% of patching and then stop.

    Was it just me? Was it global?

    Next time, it would be nice to know.

    Thanks.
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    oldschooldorkoldschooldork Member Posts: 426 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    pwlaughingtrendy wrote: »
    We'll be moving digital pipe thingies from one thingy to another thingy!

    Kind of reminds me of Galaxy Quest:

    "Hey guys, there's a red thingy moving toward the green thingy. And I think we're the green thingy."
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    shadowwraith77shadowwraith77 Member Posts: 6,395 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    I believe 1 of the blue ones, is in need of replacing!

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    durenasdurenas Member Posts: 108 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    bergins wrote: »
    I'm pretty sure she said she wasn't sure it wouldn't blow up:Perhaps most frightening is: Pretty sure things not working isn't good, Trendy. ;) lol

    Here's to an explosionless transition!

    On the bright side, no matter what happens, we learn something valuable! For science!
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    pwlaughingtrendypwlaughingtrendy Member Posts: 2,966 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    darkknightucf wrote: »
    Hi,

    Could we get an interview w/ one of your network engineers working on this, please?

    I'll be your Call Emergency Artillery for a year.... a working version ;)
    Wait, which one would you interview?

    Bob, John, or not Bob?
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    sarosssaross Member Posts: 248 Media Corps
    edited May 2015
    pwlaughingtrendy wrote: »
    Wait, which one would you interview?

    Bob, John, or not Bob?

    How about the not not Bob, Not john and not Bob one?
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    darkknightucfdarkknightucf Member Posts: 1,546 Media Corps
    edited May 2015
    pwlaughingtrendy wrote: »
    Wait, which one would you interview?

    Bob, John, or not Bob?

    Whichever one of the below:

    Network Architect/Engineer
    Datacenter Manager/Administrator

    and the person/people who advanced Cryptic/PWE network up a few hops to allow for multiple backbones to feed them traffic and provide better redundancy and load balancing during peak times, net storms, or one particular provider having a hissy fit. Reference http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=1469601

    Thank you |=)
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    kimonykimony Member Posts: 571 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    Well whatever was done has introduced almost constant lag and rubberbanding for me, where before it was only occasionally happening.

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    C:\Windows\System32>tracert patchserver.crypticstudios.com

    Tracing route to patchserver.crypticstudios.com [208.95.185.41]
    over a maximum of 30 hops:

    1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms x.x.x.x
    2 24 ms 23 ms 24 ms x.x.x.x
    3 27 ms 27 ms 25 ms G0-6-0-0.LSANCA-LCR-22.verizon-gni.net [130.81.4
    6.2]
    4 27 ms 24 ms 24 ms ae0-0.LAX01-BB-RTR2.verizon-gni.net [130.81.22.2
    46]
    5 * * * Request timed out.
    6 89 ms 89 ms 89 ms 0.ae2.GW15.BOS4.ALTER.NET [140.222.231.203]
    7 92 ms 92 ms 92 ms internap-gw.customer.alter.net [152.179.134.214]

    8 * * * Request timed out.
    9 98 ms 93 ms 103 ms perfectworldent-4.border11.bsn.pnap.net [216.52.
    61.78]
    10 94 ms 94 ms 94 ms patchserver2.crypticstudios.com [208.95.185.41]


    Trace complete.

    :(

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    philipclaybergphilipclayberg Member Posts: 1,680
    edited May 2015
    pwlaughingtrendy wrote: »
    We'll be moving digital pipe thingies from one thingy to another thingy! This may cause a little trouble as they pull the pipe thing over. I think? That's mostly metaphorical.

    Either way, good stuff!

    Why not just reverse the polarity of the neutron flow?
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    angrytargangrytarg Member Posts: 11,001 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    philipclayberg wrote: »
    Why not just reverse the polarity of the neutron flow?

    If you reconfigure the multi-motor refelctor in the process you could improve server capacity by 70% :D
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    philipclayberg wrote: »
    Why not just reverse the polarity of the neutron flow?

    Because it will send Dr. Spengler to the Netherworld.
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    p4hajujup4hajuju Member Posts: 214 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    Nothing to give to the conversation, but I prefer thingie not thingy http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=thingie

    Also Barry is a nice name too. Bob and Barry.
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    aliensamongusaliensamongus Member Posts: 285 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    Is the power on?

    Are the cables connected?

    Maybe try reversing the polarity of the annular confinement beam through the warp-field flux capacitor.
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    thisslerthissler Member Posts: 2,055 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    eradicator84 wrote: »
    Please this ^


    We get no communication from members of the network operations centre, and they're the ones I presume that are responsible for server performance and stability, upgrades etc.
    Yet we hear nothing from them.

    All we get is


    Originally Posted by pwlaughingtrendy View Post
    We'll be moving digital pipe thingies from one thingy to another thingy! This may cause a little trouble as they pull the pipe thing over. I think? That's mostly metaphorical.

    Either way, good stuff!

    which is, with all due respect, unprofessional.

    Having someone who knows what they're talking about summarise more precisely what's happening, and why, would be nice.

    Estimated down time?
    Why is it happening?
    Is it to fix network issues many have been encountering of late?
    Is it an upgrade?
    Replacing faulty hardware?


    Wavey hands "thingy stuff happening", doesn't help our understanding of what's happening.
    Cause if service resumes and there's still network issues for many, lag, SNRs etc, people will start questioning what they even did.

    Having a proper understanding at the beginning, helps prevent tears later by informing our expectations.

    I agree. Okay I could do without the interview bit. Unless an engineer had nothing better to do on their day off. Cause like, on their workday I like them where they are.

    And on the other hand, even a layperson should be able to convert issues that engineers are addressing into something another layperson, even if that layperson exists as an avatar on the internet, can understand.

    Peace.
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