Higher than normal ping

[Delgan-dathremar]

Agreed, if it really was a problem then millions of players would be flooding here with complaints. Definitely routing issues, as I have had exactly the same issue many years ago before we had Australian servers. As soon as I changed to a company that was typically used by gamers my latency and lag issues were resolved.

[Elocin-mugthol]

Who knew suggesting a VPN, working troubleshooting steps, and letting you know about Blizzard’s current connection troubleshooting policies would encourage such a cringe reply? No good deed, I guess.

@Manndh-ghostlands

The fact you don’t know how I’m doing this is concerning but not unexpected.
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Still, though, you clearly need tech education. I would suggest investing a few hours in it.

What’s concerning is that you haven’t followed the names of the people responding to you. A different MVP said they didn’t know how you were running tests, but you’re responding to me about it. I’ve solved thousands of technical issues across several Blizzard game title forums — and that is how I became a Tech MVP.

I’m not confused as to how someone would acquire an IP to test, but I also know that all of the Blizzard servers mitigate ICMP traffic as a DDoS protection mechanism, and running tests to them won’t be fruitful.

@Zungar-silver-hand

that blizzard ip address isn’t actually in the Netherlands, but was registered by blizzard in the EU at some point.

Additionally, others are correctly letting you know that where IPs are registered vs where they are connecting can be different things.

@Mightymeat-andorhal

if the routing was messed up, it would be exactly the sort of thing a VPN would fix, and something that would need to be fixed by your ISP.

I’m not alone in thinking this is a problem in your ISP’s routing. Your unwillingness to accept anything other than “it’s Blizzard’s fault” and trying to flame me are the issues here.

[Aelessar-benediction]

Check my post here in Tech Supp. Dynamic IP in Win settings will solve your problem.