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[1DeathWalkingTerror1]

After a patch and apparent server shift approx 1 month ago,my ping went from 200+ to 350+ and the game was unplayable, massive rubber banding and desyncs. Yes I know they were separate issues.

I have just come back to the game after a 2 week hiatus and all I can say is thank you my ping has dropped back to original 'Aussie' ping 200+ and the game is great!!

Thanks again PGI from myself and many Aussie/NZ players!!

[Symbiodinium]

That's good news. No progress here, still around 320. It's not completely unplayable but it's frustrating and I feel at a distinct disadvantage due to persistent rubber banding and worthless laser HSR.

[Eboli]

Congrats on your ping improvement! Hopefully others will have the same result as well.

Cheers
Eboli.

[ice trey]

I'm actually checking my tracert as I type this

The results are... Hmm... nope. Japan is still getting bounced through Singapore, back over to Italy, through the EU, and over the Atlantic to Canada.

You might have just gotten lucky and a fellow aussie who uses the same ISP already contacted the ISP's customer support line and were able to get them to reroute the traffic.

I don't think there's much that PGI can actually do about the routing. I'd like to call up my ISP too, but business hours always manage to fall around the days that I'm working.

[XxXAbsolutZeroXxX]

ice trey, on 22 September 2014 - 05:12 AM, said:

I'm actually checking my tracert as I type this

The results are... Hmm... nope. Japan is still getting bounced through Singapore, back over to Italy, through the EU, and over the Atlantic to Canada.

You might have just gotten lucky and a fellow aussie who uses the same ISP already contacted the ISP's customer support line and were able to get them to reroute the traffic.

I don't think there's much that PGI can actually do about the routing. I'd like to call up my ISP too, but business hours always manage to fall around the days that I'm working.

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Undersea telecom cables is how internet traffic is routed from one country to another. I doubt there's a direct link running from japan under the ocean to canada. They tend to run from one geographic location to its closest neighbor which results in routing ineffciencies.

It might be better to switch to satellite internet which might not have those built in geographic limitations?

I can't say I've tried it.

Edited by I Zeratul I, 22 September 2014 - 05:20 AM.

[ice trey]

I Zeratul I, on 22 September 2014 - 05:19 AM, said:

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Undersea telecom cables is how internet traffic is routed from one country to another. I doubt there's a direct link running from japan under the ocean to canada. They tend to run from one geographic location to its closest neighbor which results in routing ineffciencies.

It might be better to switch to satellite internet which might not have those built in geographic limitations?

I can't say I've tried it.

There are some. There's at least two lines going from Japan to Seattle, and Seattle is just a stones' throw from Vancouver, where PGI is supposedly headquartered and, if I'm not mistaken, where the servers used to be.

[Impyrium]

Mine went back to normal a couple weeks back, it's even an improvement over my previous 'normal' ping (down from 290-300 to 260-270).

I figured it was a random local ISP thing.