I'll be happy to see what I can do - but fair warning, performance is one of the most difficult things that can be 'troubleshot' remotely, largely because it appears things are working and there's little to anchor to. And, sadly, you could be caught up in the results of something called a DOS (denial of service) attack at your provider or somewhere between you and Simutronics. St Louis is frequently a target because of the number of US Government activities going on there. There's little you can do besides comment to the affected provider at that point.

Let's start with something simple, though.

Go to http://speedof.me and run the test. You're looking for two things (besides really impressive numbers). Your latency and your upload speeds. If there's a large number in latency (you're probably ok at or under 100ms, but lower of course is always much better) and you'd like to see your upload speeds in excess of 2Mb, as a general rule.

Then, if you don't mind, I'd like you to try this Wizard interface - let's see if this is really a problem with the SF client, or if it is associated with something else and affects Wizard as well. Don't worry, I won't leave you with a 'just use that' mentality.

Finally, if you're using any third party software (like LICH), let's try both clients without that - just log in through the web page and select the client to play.

Let us know the results - we might start asking to poke around in various log files depending on what you give us back.

Doug

Ok, those all seem good.

Let's check a couple more things, just for grins. The SF client has the ability to store scripts and macros on the Simu server (default condition, I believe) and has imbedded links to click on to get menus for interacting with items in game.

let's turn both of these features off - the scripting probably forever (it has other limitations, too) and the clickable links just to see if there's an effect.

1) To disable saving settings to the Simutronics server, from StormFront go to Options > Settings > Location. Set the option to 'Local'.
2) To turn off the imbedded links (hypertext), under Options, select Advanced and then "Show Links".

Play with those settings set to local / off for a bit - see if that improves your game delays at all.

Doug

Well, we can certainly turn those messages off in the client, but I'm loathe to do so only because I don't see how they can be having this effect, after we turn off the hypertext.

I'm kind of puzzled by the 'further from the city' observation, as well. Very odd - which city just as a totally inconsequential point of interest?

Doug