High Latency to NA servers

I live in Minneapolis, but I have ~250 ms latency to Chicago servers. Many of my friends who also live in Minneapolis but have different ISPs have recently had the same issues. Some spike to high latency, anywhere from 180-400. I am currently sitting at 250 ms with very little fluctuation and no packet loss so I ran WinMTR to the Chicago server (24.105.62.129):
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| WinMTR statistics |

Host - % Sent Recv Best Avrg Wrst Last
101 101 0 0 2 0
No response from host - 100 20 0 0 0 0 0
min5-edge-05/inetqwest.net - 0 100 100 0 0 10 0
los-edge-07/inet.qwest.net - 0 100 100 46 46 54 46
65.153.81.102 - 0 100 100 52 52 67 67
i-93.1wlt-core02/telstraglobal.net - 0 100 100 52 53 55 53
i-15006.sgpl-core02/telstraglobal.net - 2 96 95 244 245 250 247
i-92.sgpl01/telstraglobal.net - 0 100 100 244 244 247 244
unknown/telstraglobal.net - 0 100 100 225 225 228 225
203.118.15.10 - 0 100 100 225 225 227 226
203.118.6.97 - 0 100 100 225 225 227 226
203.117.163.174 - 0 100 100 236 241 347 237
et-0-0-48-br01-eqsg3/as57976.net - 0 100 100 235 237 320 237
ge-0-0-4-br01-eqty2/as57976.net - 0 95 95 235 324 3619 3619
xe-0-0-0-1-br01-eqla1/as57976.net - 6 78 74 235 342 3679 3679
et-0-0-2-br01-swlv10/as57976.net - 13 62 54 235 373 4620 4620
137.221.65.133 - 56 29 13 235 935 2872 2306
be1-pe01-eqch2/as57976.net - 0 100 100 235 235 238 235
chi-eqch2-ia-bons-02/as57976.net - 0 100 100 236 237 242 238
24.105.62.129 - 0 100 100 236 236 240 236
________________________________________________ ______ ______ ______ ______ ______ ______

WinMTR v0.92 GPL V2 by Appnor MSP - Fully Managed Hosting & Cloud Provider

I looked up Telstra and it seems to be an Australian telecom. Am I being routed to Australia and then back to Chicago and if so, why?

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same issue here. 300-400 ping on my end. just started today. here is tracert

Tracing route to 24.105.62.129 over a maximum of 30 hops

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.0.1
3 18 ms 20 ms 65 ms cdrr-dsl-gw18.cdrr.qwest. net [209.181.206.18]
4 23 ms 18 ms 21 ms cdrr-agw1.inet.qwest. net [209.181.211.137]
5 61 ms 61 ms 61 ms los-edge-07.inet.qwest. net [67.14.102.142]
6 67 ms 68 ms 68 ms 65.153.81.102
7 68 ms 67 ms 68 ms i-93.1wlt-core02.telstraglobal. net [202.84.253.85]
8 260 ms 260 ms 262 ms i-15006.sgpl-core02.telstraglobal. net [202.84.140.233]
9 260 ms 299 ms 259 ms i-92.sgpl01.telstraglobal. net [202.84.224.194]
10 241 ms 241 ms 241 ms unknown.telstraglobal. net [210.176.138.174]
11 241 ms 256 ms 241 ms 203.118.15.10
12 241 ms 246 ms 241 ms 203.118.6.97
13 253 ms 264 ms 253 ms 203.117.163.174
14 261 ms 250 ms 268 ms et-0-0-48-br01-eqsg3.as57976. net [137.221.87.33]
15 250 ms 250 ms 250 ms ge-0-0-4-br01-eqty2.as57976. net [137.221.65.126]
16 250 ms 249 ms 249 ms xe-0-0-0-1-br01-eqla1.as57976. net [137.221.65.56]
17 250 ms 249 ms 249 ms et-0-0-2-br01-swlv10.as57976. net [137.221.65.69]
18 251 ms 254 ms 249 ms 137.221.65.133
19 250 ms 250 ms 249 ms be1-pe01-eqch2.as57976. net [137.221.69.67]
20 251 ms 251 ms 251 ms 24.105.62.129

Trace complete.

same

WinMTR Statistics

WinMTR statistics

Host % Sent Recv Best Avrg Wrst Last
modem.Home 0 311 311 0 0 3 0
cosp-dsl-gw11.cosp.qwest.net 0 311 311 6 7 46 6
cosp-agw1.inet.qwest.net 0 311 311 6 7 44 7
los-edge-07.inet.qwest.net 0 312 312 31 32 113 45
65.153.81.102 0 312 312 37 40 117 48
i-93.1wlt-core02.telstraglobal.net 0 312 312 40 41 51 51
i-15006.sgpl-core02.telstraglobal.net 0 312 312 230 231 239 232
i-92.sgpl01.telstraglobal.net 0 312 312 229 230 269 238
210.176.138.174 0 312 312 211 212 220 215
203.118.15.10 0 312 312 211 212 225 225
203.118.6.97 0 312 312 211 212 219 214
203.117.163.174 0 312 312 210 215 408 220
et-0-0-48-br01-eqsg3.as57976.net 0 312 312 237 240 345 270
ge-0-0-4-br01-eqty2.as57976.net 0 312 312 237 241 426 237
xe-0-0-0-1-br01-eqla1.as57976.net 0 312 312 237 243 343 237
et-0-0-2-br01-swlv10.as57976.net 0 312 312 223 226 340 223
137.221.65.133 0 310 310 237 266 1589 240
No response from host 100 63 0 0 0 0 0
No response from host 100 63 0 0 0 0 0
No response from host 100 63 0 0 0 0 0
No response from host 100 63 0 0 0 0 0
No response from host 100 63 0 0 0 0 0
No response from host 100 63 0 0 0 0 0
No response from host 100 63 0 0 0 0 0
No response from host 100 63 0 0 0 0 0
No response from host 100 63 0 0 0 0 0
No response from host 100 63 0 0 0 0 0
No response from host 100 63 0 0 0 0 0
No response from host 100 63 0 0 0 0 0
No response from host 100 63 0 0 0 0 0

Same issue, from the midwest but my games are entirely with people from Chile, steady 250 ping DX

Hi, I’m on PS4, so I can’t run your guys’ test, but I live in the inland northwest (about six hours east of Seattle. ) I normally range 85 ping. Today, I’ve been getting 180-200 ping, and it feels unplayable. I main off tank, so this affects hooks, it affects what I see when trying to place projected barriers at the right time to save people, eating ults with matrix as they’re cast at the right time… you get the idea. I don’t know if I’m connecting to Chicago or something, but this 120+ ping jump is ruining the game for me. The game was running at 85 ping for me yesterday (9/29).

I’ve done all the things people say to do, like resetting the router (allowed it to be unplugged 10 mins), using ethernet cable, turning off all devices that might be connected to the router (laptop, phone, etc), turning off the console, and everything else. My connection speeds on tests have not changed, and I’m not really sure if there’s anything else I can do.

It’s helpful seeing other people with unnecessarily high ping, maybe it’s their issue, I don’t know, but I thought I’d add my voice to the “getting weirdly higher ping than what I usually get in NA” topic.

I usually get 35-40 ms in a regular game (NA East) and now I’m getting 140-260 ms. Not sure what happened but in my last game, it took 22 mins in support queue and i had all spanish speaking players, which I’ve never had happen before.

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Hey, Im from inland WA state and im also noticing a huge ping jump. I did a similar tracert to the blizzard servers and im getting snagged on 202.84.144.193 which is telstraglobal. My best guess is that blizzard had a switch go down or something and we are being automatically redirected I hope they are aware of the issue and are working on getting it back up and running shortly! I gotta get my fix you know what i mean.

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I am having a similar issue. My ping is normally 30 here and I was just in a comp match where people were speaking Portuguese and they said it was the south American server. I looked at my ping and noticed it was 150. I’m in the northern part of the US so I definitely should not be on that server.

Glad I’m not alone. This is likely an issue on their end thankfully.

Tracing route to 24.105.30.129 over a maximum of 30 hops

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  modem.Home [192.168.0.1] 
  2     3 ms     2 ms     3 ms  tukw-dsl-gw70.tukw.qwest.net [63.231.10.70] 
  3     3 ms     8 ms     5 ms  63-226-198-41.tukw.qwest.net [63.226.198.41] 
  4    20 ms    20 ms    19 ms  snj-edge-06.inet.qwest.net [67.14.34.202] 
  5    20 ms    21 ms    21 ms  65.123.13.174 
  6    23 ms    21 ms    21 ms  https://pastebin.com/kxYbphRn [202.84.247.18] 
  7   222 ms   225 ms   224 ms  i-25008.sgpl-core02.telstraglobal.net [202.84.144.193] 
  8   222 ms   222 ms   224 ms  i-92.sgpl01.telstraglobal.net [202.84.224.194] 
  9   208 ms   209 ms   216 ms  unknown.telstraglobal.net [210.176.138.174] 
 10   211 ms   208 ms   209 ms  203.118.15.133 
 11   222 ms   221 ms   221 ms  203.118.6.101 
 12   211 ms   224 ms   207 ms  203.117.163.174 
 13   222 ms   225 ms   217 ms  et-0-0-48-br01-eqsg3.as57976.net [137.221.87.33] 
 14   215 ms   215 ms   215 ms  ge-0-0-4-br01-eqty2.as57976.net [137.221.65.126] 
 15   266 ms   232 ms   244 ms  xe-0-0-0-1-br01-eqla1.as57976.net [137.221.65.56] 
 16   217 ms   216 ms   215 ms  be1-pe01-eqla1.as57976.net [137.221.68.67] 
 17   215 ms   216 ms   216 ms  lax-eqla1-ia-bons-02.as57976.net [137.221.66.3] 
 18   215 ms   215 ms   216 ms  24.105.30.129 

Trace complete.

DNS, or is it routing?

> ~$ traceroute battle.net
traceroute to battle.net (137.221.106.104), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
 1  rb-bras-sea.centurytel.net (63.231.10.151)  35.285 ms  37.009 ms  32.837 ms
 2  63-226-199-1.tukw.qwest.net (63.226.199.1)  38.607 ms  42.887 ms  42.809 ms
 3  snj-edge-06.inet.qwest.net (67.14.34.202)  48.963 ms  57.025 ms  *
 4  65.123.13.174 (65.123.13.174)  44.569 ms  65.131 ms  54.255 ms
 5  i-92.eqnx-core02.telstraglobal.net (202.84.247.18)  63.280 ms  59.852 ms  43.149 ms
 6  i-25008.sgpl-core02.telstraglobal.net (202.84.144.193)  256.690 ms  260.716 ms  252.649 ms
 7  i-92.sgpl01.telstraglobal.net (202.84.224.194)  252.242 ms  *  255.550 ms
 8  unknown.telstraglobal.net (210.176.138.174)  243.622 ms  239.330 ms  247.791 ms
 9  203.118.15.10 (203.118.15.10)  246.801 ms  203.118.15.133 (203.118.15.133)  234.534 ms  235.423 ms
10  203.118.6.97 (203.118.6.97)  245.582 ms  242.722 ms  246.340 ms
11  203.117.163.174 (203.117.163.174)  254.935 ms  236.409 ms  254.732 ms
12  et-0-0-48-br01-eqsg3.as57976.net (137.221.87.33)  244.452 ms  251.385 ms  252.095 ms
13  ge-0-0-4-br01-eqty2.as57976.net (137.221.65.126)  238.676 ms  259.582 ms  259.019 ms
14  xe-0-0-0-1-br01-eqla1.as57976.net (137.221.65.56)  259.927 ms  259.498 ms  237.608 ms
15  et-0-0-2-br01-swlv10.as57976.net (137.221.65.69)  260.376 ms  243.203 ms  246.474 ms
16  et-0-0-31-pe01-swlv10.as57976.net (137.221.83.67)  259.094 ms  236.476 ms  259.884 ms
17  *  las-swlv10-ia-bons-01.as57976.net (137.221.66.17)  243.332 ms !A  *
18  *  *  *
19  *  *  *
20  *  las-swlv10-ia-bons-01.as57976.net (137.221.66.17)  259.953 ms !A  *
21  *  *  *
22  *  *  *
23  *  *  *
24  las-swlv10-ia-bons-01.as57976.net (137.221.66.17)  239.521 ms !A  *  *
25  las-swlv10-ia-bons-02.as57976.net (137.221.66.19)  243.639 ms !A  *  *
26  *  *  *
27  *  *  *
28  *  *  *
29  *  *  las-swlv10-ia-bons-02.as57976.net (137.221.66.19)  259.333 ms !A
30  *  las-swlv10-ia-bons-02.as57976.net (137.221.66.19)  245.958 ms !A  *

$ whois 65.123.13.174
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CIDR:           65.112.0.0/12
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NetHandle:      NET-65-112-0-0-1
Parent:         NET65 (NET-65-0-0-0-0)
NetType:        Direct Allocation
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Organization:   CenturyLink Communications, LLC (CCL-534)
RegDate:        2001-01-04
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OrgName:        CenturyLink Communications, LLC
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it appears that it may have just been fixed. My MS to Chicago is now back down to 50

did u have to restart anything

I was wondering why this was happening. I usually get 60-80 ms in Colorado. I’m getting 180-250 right now. : /

i didn’t restart anything. i was in the middle of a laggy match and my screen went black and it came back at 50ms. I did do the DNS flush earlier, but still had issues.

Do you have CenturyLink? A lot of people I know, myself included, are having this issue and are being connected to sae1 instead of lax1, and the only people being affected appear to be CenturyLink users.

CenturyLink user here.

ik, i live in the NW, but I’m getting routed to freaking BRAZIL.
what’s up with that?

I live in Pennsylvania and only seem to be having latency issues when connected to Blizzard’s servers. I did all the steps recommended, ran some screen shots, and still have 150ms+ ping and heavy rubberbanding issues in game. As a result I just can’t play the game, and certainly can’t play competitive like this.

Role queue is the best thing to ever happen to this game, but aside from lack of tank players these connection issues have been horrendous lately. They started happening for me around the same time. Is it possible the two are related?

Edit: I do not have CenturyLink (I don’t think it’s available around here).

For me personally I seem to be back at 30 ms and am no longer on South American servers.

It looks like the ISP is routing your signal through Tokyo! They should not be doing that. Please contact the ISP and let them know of the error.

I do also notice a few other user’s posting tests who also route through “Telstra” or “qwest” backbone so it’s likely a peering issue not actually related to the ISP themselves. They will need to reach out to their peer networks to resolve the problem.

You may need to request a Tier 2 or Tier 3 agent who understands what routing is. Providing them the MTR test showing the obscure routing should help escalate the issue.