High ping from ae1-br01-eqny8.as57976.net host weeknights around 9 p.m

[Mingonashoba-cenarion-circle (Mingonashoba)]

@Tofflemire-sulfuras

there are not different world and home servers that can be pinged. the home server connection basically handles chat, and a few other things that don’t use much data. your world server connection handles lots of data, basically everything and everyone around you that you need to see data about. these two can be different for a variety of reasons. you would be pinging the same IP address listed in the winmtr instructions for either of them.

There are different world and home servers, you just need to know what you’re looking for. Here’s a thread I made some weeks back about trying to troubleshoot ongoing lag spike issues I’ve been having when inside dungeons and raids, really anywhere where the world server connections are using IPv4 instead of IPv6. I worked with GM Rachiomyst on this:

Using WinMTR to troubleshoot lag issues inside SL dungeons/raids

Hello theydies and gentlethems! Have you been experiencing seemingly random latency/lag spikes while in certain Shadowland zones, dungeons, or raid(s)? Well so have I. I spoke with GM Rachiomyst today, and we did a lot of network testing to try and find the issue. To try and help GM Rachiomyst compile as much data as possible to assist the network engineers in figuring out why these spikes are happening, please run the following Windows 10 commands: Download and open WinMTR as shown in the Bli…