High ping in-game, perfectly fine internet/ethernet. Help

[Nicole-1893]

“LAT” in Overwatch is not the same as “Ping.”

It’s two different metrics combined into one stat for easy reading. More info here:

Replacing Ping and RTT with Latency

Prior to patch 1.21, Overwatch maintained two estimates for your network quality: RTT and ping. Your RTT (round trip time) was measured as the time between sending a packet to the server and hearing a response, which included some application processing time on both ends. Calculating your ping, on the other hand, required us to timestamp every packet at the exact moment it was sent or received, something that became much more expensive after we patched for Meltdown & Spectre. Without these ti…

@samyatari-1918

Every game I play is sitting at a comfortable 12-25ms of ping

While that might be true, there are lots of factors that can affect ping in only one game (and could affect others you don’t know of yet). Two prime examples:

• The data center you’re landing on is far from your home because of your selected mode or rank. All players in North America can be matched to Los Angeles or Chicago servers. The same is true in other regions with multiple servers.
• A peering node between you and the server is causing the issue, which would be an issue for which the ISP has to request a fix.

Whatever the case, we cannot begin to tell you what’s actually happening without some network data. All posts with latency/connection issues should include a WinMTR, so please add one if you’d like to continue troubleshooting.