Low ping to data center, high ping in-game?
Since launch I have been getting extremely high pings in game (usually 100-150ms). I live in Southern California and my ping to the West US datacenter is 33ms. I play with friends who live in Norther...
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I'm in freaking Canada, has nothing to do with FIOS or the ISP to my knowledge. In beta it was glorious, and really fun. First week I think of owning the game, great. After that though, I can no longer play, with average 125 ping, all the way up to 400. This is RIDICULOUS.
FWIW, my ISP is Source Cable, a local cable Internet (you don't say) company. Only way I could get unlimited bandwidth, screw you Bell.
IT has everything to do with FIOS. Your ISP is probably just doing the same thing as Verizon. Read this thread. http://www.reddit.com/r/titanfall/comments/222t1b/lagging_on_verizon_fios_use_a_vpn_more_in_comments/
I'll try to find a free VPN to test this, but are you saying those in Australia and those on TWC are also being routed to DC?
@TrogDaBurninator wrote:IT has everything to do with FIOS. Your ISP is probably just doing the same thing as Verizon. Read this thread. http://www.reddit.com/r/titanfall/comments/222t1b/lagging_on_verizon_fios_use_a_vpn_more_in_comments/
No I am saying that the ISP is routing people to other ISPs that aren't close to the nearest datacenter resulting in a longer ping time. For Fios that happens to be Washington DC.
They do this to save money because the ports to a more direct path are overloaded because your ISP refuses to upgrade their hardware.
Well, I tried two different free VPNs and I couldn't connect to any servers, got a -1 ping on all data centres. I tried port triggering, and my ping went down to around 70 ms, but that's still unacceptable and didn't decrease the lag at ALL (and I found it kept fluctuating wildly, like at the start of the match it was over 400, then a minute later was 100, then 70, then back over 100).
I've already forwarded the ports through Windows Firewall, like the official Titanfall help page for connection issues and port forwarding suggests, but now I'm going to go straight through my router. If THAT doesn't work, time to go hunt down a premium VPN with a trial.
EDIT 1: Yep, port forwarding did nada, as I expected.
Time to go VPN hunting!
EDIT 2: Ended up trying VyprVPN, free trial, and it did lower my ping. However, there was still massive lag. Curious, I reset the video settings to their original recommended values (with the exception of the resolution) and while it now looks like **bleep**, it's playable again. I don't understand though, because I've had the same settings throughout the beta and since buying it and it was fine at the beginning.
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