EU to NA lag

[Rehayem]

There is a super thread in the Technical Support forum about this. It was found to be some sort of political issue in the US that impacts one of the internet nodes. SE doesn't have control over it but it is right before the hops to the NA servers.

It's like a road and a path being dug up right in front of a shop you own. You have no control over that, yet it impacts your business greatly.

SE usually tries to address these problems by contacting them, especially if it's a DDoS, but since it's been a political issue it seems to have been harder to achieve.

You can get around it with a VPN anyway. I got a significant ping reduction even from my normal ping using one actually. It's not even a gaming VPN either and it works great.

Yeah but we're paying customers, we shouldn't rely on ping reducers and vpns to stabilize our ping just to play normally. At least they could acknowledge this, y'know, say they're aware of this.

[Jeeqbit]

Yeah but we're paying customers, we shouldn't rely on ping reducers and vpns to stabilize our ping just to play normally. At least they could acknowledge this, y'know, say they're aware of this.

I agree and said the same thing myself in the Technical Support forum. They should either create a proxy route around the issue and allow us to connect to that, or move the NA servers. But I could see this taking them some time.

[TaleraRistain]

Is this that NTT node again?