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[annddd]

Hey guys,

I wanna know the reason why the fast my buying time is more than 2000ms, even if I have set the 0.001 on both OCR and the delay. I know my speed is related to my local net speed, but is there any way for me to speed it up? I am in Asia so I am not sure whether there are some ways for me to accelerate my buying times....... I have tried the other settings on my AB, if you have some suggestions, please let me know!

[Futurama]

Buy faster internet?

[Waser Lave]

Being so far away from Neopets' servers is always going to have a pretty significant impact on your connection speed, you could try a VPS closer to their servers I guess.

[Thesage]

LoL, I was actually just about to post something like this, because for the last week I have been getting incredibly slow buy speeds, I myself was doing the same thing as annddd, on top of running at night, when the avg user count is 6-7000 and running it for 8-9 hours at a time, I know its all incredibly unsafe when it comes to getting frozen, however I had to know why my times suddenly slowed to a snails pace. Sidenote - I live in the US and have 30 mbps internet speed which I have been testing every two hours when awake for the last 5 days. I have also bounced around on required profit, shop selection, and haggle settings, but still no dice. I am also only running this computer with the autobuyer on the internet during those times, oh and no proxy. I could have sworn I saw other people making mention of the slowdown in other topics over the last couple of days.

[Waser Lave]

running at night

You might want to consider this:

http://www.neocodex....n/#entry1618757

[tri]

Buy faster internet?

I need to agree. I mean if you have 1 Mbps internet vs. 15 Mbps internet. Who is going to win?

Being so far away from Neopets' servers is always going to have a pretty significant impact on your connection speed, you could try a VPS closer to their servers I guess.

I don't know what you mean Waser? When I connect to a server over seas it seems the same speed as if I connect to Neopets. I mean I have never been to a website that takes more time to load. They all our the same whether there in Canada or the U.K. This is probably true but I do not think it would mean a significant delay.

Edited by Dorkie, 24 August 2012 - 11:30 AM.

[Waser Lave]

I don't know what you mean Waser? When I connect to a server over seas it seems the same speed as if I connect to Neopets. I mean I have never been to a website that takes more time to load. They all our the same whether there in Canada or the U.K. This is probably true but I do not think it would mean a significant delay.

There can be significant delays based on location. Australians and Asians usually struggle to get lower than 2000ms buys while North Americans can get lower than 500ms. It's always been that way.

[tri]

There can be significant delays based on location. Australians and Asians usually struggle to get lower than 2000ms buys while North Americans can get lower than 500ms. It's always been that way.

But could it be there internet speeds are not as good as mine or yours? To make this true you would need to compare Ping, Upload & Download speeds.

[Waser Lave]

But could it be there internet speeds are not as good as mine or yours? To make this true you would need to compare Ping, Upload & Download speeds.

If somebody had a 10Mb connection in Australia and another had a 10Mb connection in America there would be a significant different in the buy times purely because of the distance from the server (the data has to be routed much further). Obviously if somebody had a 64Kb connection they're going to be a lot slower but if you're comparing them equally the difference is definitely there.

[Thesage]

See and thats got me a little confused, I was always able to get the buy time you were referring to here in the US up until about a week ago, when buy times jumped by 400ms suddenly, on both attic and main shops, for main shops, its not a huge thing, miss maybe 1-2 more items every couple of hours, but in the attic, its making a huge difference, I went from 5-600 up to 1000ms, Oh and again I am running a 30mbps connect.

Edited by Thesage, 24 August 2012 - 11:42 AM.

[Waser Lave]

I don't think anybody else has mentioned such a big increase in buy times.

[Thesage]

Hmm ... I suppose I will continue to monitor it, thanks for such a quick response

[tri]

Can you take a speed test from speedtest.net. I want to see if your Internet is slower which could be caused by Bandwidth Throttling.

[Thesage]

If you mean me, Ive been testing it approx every 2 hours for the last few days, on both speakeasy and speedtest.net, I have a 30 mbps connection but get 20 mbps on this comp and that hasnt changed since the day I got it.

[tri]

If you mean me, Ive been testing it approx every 2 hours for the last few days, on both speakeasy and speedtest.net, I have a 30 mbps connection but get 20 mbps on this comp and that hasnt changed since the day I got it.

I mean annddd

[annddd]

Can you take a speed test from speedtest.net. I want to see if your Internet is slower which could be caused by Bandwidth Throttling.

Here's my result, 36ms PING/2.16mpbs DOWNLOAD/0.51mbps UPLOAD
So is it casued by the Bandwidth Throttling? Well I am not very skilled at the computer, if I asked some question unwisely, please forget it.

Finally, thanks for your all quick and beneficial responses.

[Strategist]

Using a VPS helps significantly. You're basically using a virtual machine from a location much closer to Neopets than what you would be from home. I have a VPS in California and get regular buy times ~1200ms in main shops and anywhere from 200-500ms in attic. Now, if I were to use my HOME internet (here in Australia) my buy times rarely dip below 1800ms in main shops and not even worth mentioning attic. Have a look into purchasing a VPS from america as close to Cali as you can

[tri]

Here's my result, 36ms PING/2.16mpbs DOWNLOAD/0.51mbps UPLOAD
So is it casued by the Bandwidth Throttling? Well I am not very skilled at the computer, if I asked some question unwisely, please forget it.

Finally, thanks for your all quick and beneficial responses.

You internet is slow. That is your problem.

[Waser Lave]

You internet is slow. That is your problem.

Yep, looks that way.

[annddd]

Thanks for your all replies. I think the problem may be caused by my Net Speed in my country, because I have almost purchase the most expensive one already.