Are Frankufrt servers overpopulated?

Frankfurt servers have lowest ping for me yet they have the most lag-related issues.

@PsyhiX69 

Frankfurt has sometimes the lowest ping and sometimes few other servers have lower ping than Frankfurt,

despite it being the closest server to me.

It is also the closest to me. And I also get lag sometimes. Sometimes it flat out dies on me, so I usually switch to Tokyo. 

Interesting thread for me.  I've been playing on this server quite a bit the last couple weeks, on console.  I've been playing with a buddy for whom this is the local server.  I felt like there was a good bit of a matchmaking difference from the west coast US servers.  So far I've played two sessions on Frankfurt with my other partner who is also in the US, and the theory seems to have held up to scrutiny so far.  Dunno what it is making a difference.

@hayhor Playing at what is late evening in Europe, let's say roughly 8 PM to midnight.

@damsonwhufndthisThe ping has been discussed a ton of times on this forum. Physical distance to a datacenter doesn't matter much, since your ISP can reroute you when there's congestion along the way. That's how ping goes up do crazy values sometimes. In some cases it has happened for connections between 2 very close locations (geographically) to go all around the country or even continent.

I can't really comment on frankfurt servers as I don't play them, but London has basically been the same for me recently.

Whilst playing apex my ping jumps from around 33 to around 250 depending on proximity to others players. For me personally this has rendered the game pretty much unplayable due to my low tolerance for any form of lag. >.<

Kinda sucks when I've never had these kinda problems in the considerable amount of time I've played apex, and I'm playing on a much higher connection speed than I was originally.