South Africa Servers inconsistent latency

I've started experiencing this issue the past 2 or so weeks.

I log into the South Africa Gateway and it shows 6ms latency, when I am logged in and I go to any instance (town, hideout, map etc.) its a 50/50 if I have 6ms ping or not

If I don't have 6ms ping I have 190ms almost like it has put me on an EU instance even though it says I'm on the South African Realm.

How can I have different pings on the same realm? One of the servers might be buggy?

Please help, it gets to a point where at night time the ping on the SA realm goes up to 1000ms making it impossible to play unless I switch to EU realm where the ping stays constant at 190ms.

Anyone else experiencing this? Or is my internet that broken ?

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LeGitzR wrote:

I've started experiencing this issue the past 2 or so weeks.

I log into the South Africa Gateway and it shows 6ms latency, when I am logged in and I go to any instance (town, hideout, map etc.) its a 50/50 if I have 6ms ping or not

If I don't have 6ms ping I have 190ms almost like it has put me on an EU instance even though it says I'm on the South African Realm.

How can I have different pings on the same realm? One of the servers might be buggy?

Please help, it gets to a point where at night time the ping on the SA realm goes up to 1000ms making it impossible to play unless I switch to EU realm where the ping stays constant at 190ms.

Anyone else experiencing this? Or is my internet that broken ?

sadly this is properly per game design of GGG.
The reason is that if a local PoE gateway are close to max capacity it will then start making new "play" instances on other PoE gateway's around the world.
To confirm this, monitor your instance IP's from client.txt file.

So I went through my client.txt and found the IP that is causing me high ms

94.156.93.195

Further up in the same client.txt I see it connecting to this IP just fine and normal ping except for today.

I ran a traceroute on this and got this

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Tracing route to 94.156.93.195 over a maximum of 30 hops

1 2 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 5 ms 1 ms 1 ms tcap-ip-bng-1.north.dsl.telkomsa.net [105.184.27.1]
3 4 ms 2 ms 2 ms 105-187-235-17.telkomsa.net [105.187.235.17]
4 * * * Request timed out.
5 5 ms 3 ms 3 ms ipc-aggr-1.north.telkomsa.net [105.224.0.13]
6 3 ms 4 ms 5 ms tbnb-os-cer-1.osnet.co.za [196.25.11.213]
7 172 ms 172 ms 173 ms 10.189.30.2
8 * * * Request timed out.
9 355 ms 356 ms 356 ms be2485.ccr51.jnb01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.88.206]
10 177 ms 175 ms 175 ms 169.254.0.4
11 175 ms 175 ms 175 ms 10.255.31.182
12 175 ms 175 ms 175 ms 94.156.93.1
13 175 ms 175 ms 175 ms 94.156.93.195

Trace complete.

Now I'm not sure where all these exchanges are located but the one adding plenty ms has jnb in the name which indicates to me its in Johannesburg.

Looked up the IP 94.156.93.195 and found out its hosted in South Africa

Summary
ASN AS199524 - G-Core Labs S.A.
Range 94.156.93.0/24
Company G-Core Labs S.A.


IP Geolocation
City Johannesburg
State Gauteng


Why am I getting EU level ping to a local server?

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LeGitzR wrote:

Looked up the IP 94.156.93.195 and found out its hosted in South Africa

Summary
ASN AS199524 - G-Core Labs S.A.
Range 94.156.93.0/24
Company G-Core Labs S.A.


IP Geolocation
City Johannesburg
State Gauteng


Why am I getting EU level ping to a local server?

can you make a tracert to one of the "normal" SA IP's and compare ?

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Tracing route to ggg.jnb.003 [5.188.120.56]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms tcap-ip-bng-1.north.dsl.telkomsa.net [105.184.27.1]
3 7 ms 6 ms 3 ms 105-187-235-17.telkomsa.net [105.187.235.17]
4 * * * Request timed out.
5 4 ms 5 ms 3 ms ipc-aggr-1.north.telkomsa.net [105.224.0.13]
6 4 ms 4 ms 13 ms 105-187-234-97.telkomsa.net [105.187.234.97]
7 4 ms 3 ms 3 ms seacom.ixp.joburg [196.60.8.188]
8 6 ms 5 ms 4 ms ce-1-0-2.er-02-jnb.za.seacomnet.com [105.16.29.10]
9 * * * Request timed out.
10 3 ms 4 ms 4 ms 10.255.31.182
11 7 ms 5 ms 5 ms 5.188.1.3
12 4 ms 4 ms 4 ms ggg.jnb.003 [5.188.120.56]

Trace complete.

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LeGitzR wrote:

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Tracing route to ggg.jnb.003 [5.188.120.56]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms tcap-ip-bng-1.north.dsl.telkomsa.net [105.184.27.1]
3 7 ms 6 ms 3 ms 105-187-235-17.telkomsa.net [105.187.235.17]
4 * * * Request timed out.
5 4 ms 5 ms 3 ms ipc-aggr-1.north.telkomsa.net [105.224.0.13]
6 4 ms 4 ms 13 ms 105-187-234-97.telkomsa.net [105.187.234.97]
7 4 ms 3 ms 3 ms seacom.ixp.joburg [196.60.8.188]
8 6 ms 5 ms 4 ms ce-1-0-2.er-02-jnb.za.seacomnet.com [105.16.29.10]
9 * * * Request timed out.
10 3 ms 4 ms 4 ms 10.255.31.182
11 7 ms 5 ms 5 ms 5.188.1.3
12 4 ms 4 ms 4 ms ggg.jnb.003 [5.188.120.56]

Trace complete.

yeah it looks like you are being routed outside the contry for the other IP.
Try asking your ISP why that is.

I've got the same issue, made a thread about it but no reply.

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3393998

'One of the servers is melting' or an ice cap isn't currently available due to climate change.

I wonder how well they do in Florida.

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LeGitzR wrote:

I've started experiencing this issue the past 2 or so weeks.

I log into the South Africa Gateway and it shows 6ms latency, when I am logged in and I go to any instance (town, hideout, map etc.) its a 50/50 if I have 6ms ping or not

If I don't have 6ms ping I have 190ms almost like it has put me on an EU instance even though it says I'm on the South African Realm.

How can I have different pings on the same realm? One of the servers might be buggy?

Please help, it gets to a point where at night time the ping on the SA realm goes up to 1000ms making it impossible to play unless I switch to EU realm where the ping stays constant at 190ms.

Anyone else experiencing this? Or is my internet that broken ?

I've experienced the same latency issues and the game is unplayable most evenings now. Also started about two weeks ago.

Here's the WinMTR output. Perhaps someone can help diagnose the problem.

|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| WinMTR statistics |
| Host - % | Sent | Recv | Best | Avrg | Wrst | Last |
|-------------------|------|------|------|------|------|------|
| 192.168.1.1 - 0 | 100 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 0 |
| 100.99.105.1 - 0 | 100 | 100 | 2 | 12 | 223 | 5 |
| 169-1-21-115.ip.afrihost.co.za - 0 | 100 | 100 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 1 |
| 169-1-21-1.ip.afrihost.co.za - 0 | 101 | 101 | 1 | 1 | 22 | 1 |
| 169-1-21-82.ip.afrihost.co.za - 0 | 101 | 101 | 1 | 1 | 29 | 1 |
| 169-1-2-21-d3c.ip.afrihost.capetown - 0 | 100 | 100 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 1 |
| 100.64.80.61 - 17 | 62 | 52 | 44 | 46 | 49 | 46 |
| 169.1.21.83 - 0 | 100 | 100 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 1 |
| 100.127.1.40 - 0 | 101 | 101 | 16 | 17 | 32 | 17 |
| 100.127.0.148 - 0 | 100 | 100 | 17 | 32 | 413 | 18 |
| 196-60-9-192.ixp.joburg - 0 | 101 | 101 | 16 | 17 | 32 | 17 |
| 10.255.31.182 - 8 | 78 | 72 | 61 | 62 | 77 | 64 |
| 94.156.93.1 - 26 | 50 | 37 | 60 | 62 | 75 | 61 |
| 94.156.93.199 - 0 | 101 | 101 | 16 | 17 | 32 | 17 |
|_______________________________________|______|______|______|______|