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4 years ago

Random high ping every other match

Hi, As of late (around 2 weeks) my ping in Apex Legends have bounced up to around 200-220 every 3rd to 4th game. This happens randomly although my internet connection is wired and stable. I'm from...

voidBubble

4 years ago

It looks like I have finally fixed the problem.

Using LiveTcpUdpWatch to look for the IP whenever I got into ~200 ms ping servers.

I found it was always an IP in the range of 185.225.209.XXX.

IP range 185.225.208.0 - 185.225.211.255 belongs to US-VPS-NET which is a VPS.net Cloud Service.

So no wonder the ping is high. Why Apex is connecting me to that IP once in a while I have no idea.

Solution :

I created an Inbound rule (in defender firewall) blocking 185.225.209.0 - 185.225.209.255, since the IP's I have seen was always in the 185.225.209.XXX. range.

I also created an outbound rule with the same IP range inbound rule on it's own didn't work. In the outbound rule I blocked any app/program/service not just r5apex.exe

After playing several hours in the last couple of days I haven't been connected to a single high ping game and I have had two code leaf events. Usually I never see code leaf.

So I will keep playing and if I get any high ping games I will update this post with the IP. But for now it seems to have solved the problem.

voidBubble

4 years ago

UPDATE

I haven't had a single high ping game since I blocked the above IP range in the firewall.

I have had 7 or 8 code leaf events, but NO high ping in pub or ranked games.

Sometimes I get 2 code leaf events in a row, but I don't loose any ranked points.

So for now it's working.