Habbo Extremely Slow?

[Habboism]

Hey guys,

It seems that Habbo Hotel is being extremely laggy lately, and I have no idea why.
It could be completely lag-free for an hour, and then suddenly it'll start lagging really badly, and then it will be fine again.

Please note:
- My internet connection is fine. I have a 5MB connection and it never slows down. In fact, just to make sure, whenever Habbo starts lagging, I open up a video in YouTube to see if I can stream a video. I can stream a 1080p video without any lag. And if I try downloading a file - same thing, it will download at ~550KB/s. So, no - my internet is fine.
- The habbo servers are fine. I disagree with "Habbo may lag because there are a lot of people online", because the game is unplayable with the lag I'm getting, and it's impossible that all other Habbo players are getting the same lag as I do. I also asked my friends, and none of them are lagging.
- I couldn't find any port Habbo uses, but I did find out that the Shockwave port is 1626, and I forwarded it in my router.
- I did try to restart my computer, and I did try to restart my router. No luck.

Anyone know what's the problem?
Thanks in advance

[Habboism]

Hey, I didn't get an answer yet so bump

Also, I'd like to add that I tried playing Habbo on another house, and it worked perfectly.
The difference was that in my house it's a 5MB internet connection with a router, and the other house was a 1MB (or even slower) connection but WITHOUT a router. And there wasn't any lag even though the connection itself was pretty slow.

So I guess it's a router problem, meaning I probably have to forward some ports, but whenever I search for "habbo port forwarding" or w/e, it just comes up with ports for retro hotels, and not the regular hotel.

(Although now that I think about it, if it's a problem with port forwarding, how come sometimes it doesn't lag at all? If it was a port forwarding problem then there would always be lag. Odd)

So anyone know what to do?

[Sharon]

Sounds a tidgy bit stupid buy try clearing Temp Files and/or your catche and cookies

[Habboism]

Will do, although I don't think that would help since I tried using 3 browsers already (Firefox, Chrome and IE) and I get lag on all of them (even though I don't have any temp. files/cache on Chrome and IE since I don't use them )

[Volumise]

This happens to me. I open habbo and it's working fine, 30 minutes later my habbo freezes and I have to wait like 10 minutes for it to unfreeze or normally I don't wait that long and just close it and restart habbo. Also I noticed that my habbo sometimes freezes when the pixels come, because I'm on habbo, it freezes and after waiting 5 minutes or so the pixel thing always pops up. Really annoying actually.

[Martin]

Yeah, I've been experiencing a bit more lag recently too. I'm guessing that perhaps this is all in preparation for the merge, and that there are things going on behind the scenes. Hopefully it will be fixed.

[Habboism]

This happens to me. I open habbo and it's working fine, 30 minutes later my habbo freezes and I have to wait like 10 minutes for it to unfreeze or normally I don't wait that long and just close it and restart habbo. Also I noticed that my habbo sometimes freezes when the pixels come, because I'm on habbo, it freezes and after waiting 5 minutes or so the pixel thing always pops up. Really annoying actually.

Nah, that's not my case.
It doesn't freeze for me, it just lags, meaning when I do something it takes 10 seconds until it actually happens.

Yeah, I've been experiencing a bit more lag recently too. I'm guessing that perhaps this is all in preparation for the merge, and that there are things going on behind the scenes. Hopefully it will be fixed.

I doubt it, because as I mentioned earlier I tried in a different connection and it worked perfectly (and I didn't try for 10 minutes, I tried for a few hours and in more than 1 occasion), so I doubt that it's the merge (although it may be ONE of the causes).

[Hollie]

ive been a bit laggy lately too ;l
dunno what it is though

[Habboism]

ive been a bit laggy lately too ;l
dunno what it is though

How much lag exactly are you talking about?

I'm asking this because lately I've been noticing that when people say they're lagging, they usually mean that, for example, when they send a message it takes 3 seconds until it appears. That's an understandable lag, and it could happen to anyone no matter what.

The lag I'm talking about is different - it's extremely bad and makes the game unplayable. For comparison, when I type a message it will take about a minute until it shows it - that is, if I actually manage to get in a room (it takes about 3 minutes to load the rooms in the navigator and probably another couple of minutes to actually get inside a room).

Are you talking about the casual lag, or the unplayable lag that I mentioned?

[Mikey]

How much lag exactly are you talking about?

I'm asking this because lately I've been noticing that when people say they're lagging, they usually mean that, for example, when they send a message it takes 3 seconds until it appears. That's an understandable lag, and it could happen to anyone no matter what.

The lag I'm talking about is different - it's extremely bad and makes the game unplayable. For comparison, when I type a message it will take about a minute until it shows it - that is, if I actually manage to get in a room (it takes about 3 minutes to load the rooms in the navigator and probably another couple of minutes to actually get inside a room).

Are you talking about the casual lag, or the unplayable lag that I mentioned?

I've had unplayable lag too, for example when I go into a room the window that habbo is on fails to work properly and freezes. I think this has been happening to many people ever since around last week. Hopefully it will be fixed when the merge happens.