3 years ago
Package Loss & Lag
Product: Apex Legends Platform:PC Please specify your platform model. PC AMD or Nvidia Model Number Gigabyte RTX 3070 Ti VISION OC 8G Enter RAM memory size in GB 32 What is your gamertag/PSN ID/...
So this is the reason for most Telekom-customers having lags on EA servers:
The data center in Frankfurt, DE-CIX.
All your Internet traffic (at least the traffic going to Apex servers, which are located in Frankfurt aswell!) is going through this DE-CIX data center.
When you take a look at the maximum speeds, you'll find that Telekom has a maximum Speed of 110G (Gigabit per second) for ALL customers, whereas Vodafone has two times 600G for all customers.
Telekom:
Vodafone:
One could compare the peering on Telekom with a waterfall (the internet traffic of all the customers) that needs to go through a pinhole (the speed of the connection inside the data center).