[2023] Higher pings on European servers from Middle East

Originally posted by KrCharter

I live in a Levant country and Dubai/Bahrain servers are at 48-50ms so mission accomplished I guess. However, 98% of my playtime was spent on London due to most my friends being European and now I'm afraid I won't be able to anymore. I'll try the VPN thing later today but I doubt any free services are good enough to provide a stable enough connection and idk about paying for a VPN provider just to play on a server I've already been playing on for years.

Originally posted by blueberriesenjoyer

I'm from Egypt, getting 58 on Dubai,68 Frankfurt, 114 Bahrain, 164 Paris, 165 London, 172 Madrid, & the rest are higher, before the introduction of Dubai servers, Paris/london/frank were within a few ms of each other, between 55 to 75, followed by Madrid/Warsaw/Stockholm from 80:90, & so on.

"if you’re located between two of our network points of presence then unfortunately one of them is going to be your entry point" if I'm not misunderstanding, this would mean that previously Paris or somewhere close to Paris was the POP being used as entry mostly for me (since it used to have the lowest ping), but now you've a new one closer to UAE through which I'm connecting to others? but also if so why is the Frankfurt server's ping still the same? right now the game is basically unplayable on most servers for North Africans, traceroute:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms [192.168.1.1]

2 5 ms 6 ms 5 ms 10.45.5.2

3 5 ms 5 ms 5 ms 10.36.22.29

4 5 ms 5 ms 5 ms 10.36.22.30

5 * * * Request timed out.

it used to work a long time ago beyond that last hop shown above whether tracert, pingplotter or other tools, but it stopped like a year and a half ago

Originally posted by RiotKorensky

This should improve sometime in the next week. We are aiming to try and get Paris, London and Madrid back down however because of our network topology, it might be a few ms higher than before as we run Cairo into Milan first for redundancy reasons.

Originally posted by blueberriesenjoyer

ty, a bit of a tangent, but usually my European friends have a better ping to South Africa than me, of course they usually have better internet in general, but is that in part due to the network topology thing, that even our connection to SA runs through a European POP to get to SA, with the same happening to Europeans too but just because for us the point is in the opposite direction of SA, we get higher pings, or is it just our poorer infra-structure?
Also any plans for a north African Server XD?

Originally posted by KMZY-D

It is still not resolved here in jordan are you gonna fix it? (Please)

Originally posted by MahmoudAZ02

We still have the same issue here in Jordan, before the update London ping was 60-70 now its a constant 150, when will this be fixed please? we play 100% of our games on eu and now its just unplayable :/

Originally posted by OppositeSignature993

VPN does not fix the issue, i play solely on VPN because im region blocked from playing the game, dubai servers are 160+ping and all eu servers are around 300+ ping
except frankfurt, for some reason.

Originally posted by QuietWrath44

Paris is down to 70 before it was 47ish, is it gonna go back to the 50s in later weeks or is this the new ping for Paris because of the new topology?

Originally posted by KMZY-D

Bahrain is 35ms, Dubai is 45ms Eu is double what it used to be (now 120-150ms) The ISP is Jordan Data Communications Company LLC

Originally posted by KMZY-D

Btw is it not possible to have the option to choose which pathway to be preferred?

Originally posted by Wolv22

Any VPN provider that lets you terminate into Paris or select the geography you land in should be able to route you around this.

Do you have any vpn recommendations? that would be greatly appreciated, also if there is any free vpns?

Originally posted by Wolv22

I'm sorry can you explain to me why on exitlag it says I should be getting 54ms but in game lobby I'm getting 100+ms?

however when I'm in game it's 54ms, any way for me to fix it?
I know this is trivial but it's hard for me to know if I'm having bad ping or not with it not showing in lobby

Here are all the pics : https://imgur.com/a/eu4LPmv

Originally posted by Evening-Jellyfish-21

WindTre in Italy is doing the same issue unfortunately. Frankfurt has 18 ms ping, London which used to have max 50 now had 200ms after the new update.

Just letting you know.