Same issue here in NZ - closest data center is Sydney - Ping in server screen is below 40ms, in game more like 200ms - i've done loads of swapping out of hardware internally without luck. I've done the UOroute thing alongside my PS4 on the same connection - 13hops to the data center, but still 40ms or so. I have windscribe VPN - i can get ~50ms ping using that method over fewer hops - more like 6-10 hops, but being a commercial vpn the connection has packet-loss spikes that make the game difficult to play for other reasons.
Just because you connect to a local data centre doesn't mean you game is going to be hosted there the match maker will match you with players on other servers
The pings that you see in the server selection screen are from dedicated servers and those are not the real apex servers, they just put them for the sake of showing something...
I have changed 3 ISP myself, all 3 when i was calling them to see if is any problem they already knew about the quality of EA servers and is nothing wrong on our sides ... the only thing you can do is stop investing your hard working money in this game until they deal with the real problems that people experience!
um its happening to me before it even begins
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