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Seasoned Rookie

5 months ago

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FC 26: Routing through USA causes 1000 ms ping spikes

Hello EA team, I am experiencing severe latency and lag issues in EA Sports FC 26 caused by incorrect network routing on your side. My internet provider is Deutsche Telekom (Germany). As the attach...

EA_Garrus
5 months ago
Hello everyone

This issue has since been resolved, and we will be locking this down.

If this continues to happen, we ask that you please take a look at our Troubleshoot Connection Quality Guide.

If this continues to be a concern on your end, please feel free to start a new thread or reply to one that is currently open.

Cheers.

EA_Garrus

EA Staff (Retired)

5 months ago

Hello everyone

This issue has since been resolved, and we will be locking this down.

If this continues to happen, we ask that you please take a look at our Troubleshoot Connection Quality Guide.

If this continues to be a concern on your end, please feel free to start a new thread or reply to one that is currently open.

Cheers.

avrimus
Seasoned Rookie
5 months ago

- CYPRUS
- CYTANET
- PC
- RIVALS - WL - RUSH - SQUAD BATLLES
- 20/10/2025
im monitoring my fc26.exe connections, the UDP connections are connected to EU servers but the TCP connections are connected to US servers. UDP are 40ms TCP are 150ms i believe the problem is there.
Piv13140
Rising Rookie
5 months ago
EA_Garrus
Your Country: FRANCE
- Your internet service provider (ISP): FREE
- Your Platform (Console/PC): PC
- GameMode where this happens: -RIVALS - WL - RUSH - SQUAD BATLLES
- Date and time (including timezone) of the last time you had the issue: ALL TIME
avrimus
Seasoned Rookie
5 months ago
here is all my connections from the game launch from one rivals game. 80% of the connections are United States , im based in Cyprus.
why so many connections for a single game guys? whats wrong with your game? i have the same problems from FIFA23.

you can see the image in HD on Link Image HD
- vamoscantera2025
  3 months ago
  Bro What program did you use for tracing?
  - avrimus
    Seasoned Rookie
    3 months ago
    Netlimiter dude.
kouvarakis
Seasoned Newcomer
4 months ago
Hi, when can you look at solving this? Its clear the issue is routing packets to suboptimal servers. Making the game unplayable for thousands of players! Please look into a fix soon…