Ping Spikes every few seconds on all realms.

[šejd]

I have tried all the realms that have normal latency values and on all of them i am constantly getting insane ping spikes every few seconds. I am playing with a friend of mine and he doesnt have any issues at all.
All multiplayer games i play have 0 issues like this, only Path of Exile 1 and 2 are games where i experience this kind of issue.

Its not very fun having a 600+ latency spike happen every like 10-15 seconds suddenly from stable 50 ping which freezes your game and when you are allowed to play again you are surroundead by enemies.

[therealdirtydan]

Im having the same issue. I noticed it happens when 500K+ people are playing...dont know if there is anything we can do...

[tilt agency]

same

[Sarno]

Originally posted by šejd:

I have tried all the realms that have normal latency values and on all of them i am constantly getting insane ping spikes every few seconds. I am playing with a friend of mine and he doesnt have any issues at all.

You just ruled out the possibility of a server-side issue at the end there.

Depending on the cause, it’s possible a VPN might help. Really, you’d need to provide diagnostic data such as a WinMTR file with 500 packets sent to each node along the route for people to say anything with certainty. Steam discussion boards wouldn’t be my first choice for that kind of troubleshooting tbqh.

[šejd]

Originally posted by Sarno:

Originally posted by šejd:

I have tried all the realms that have normal latency values and on all of them i am constantly getting insane ping spikes every few seconds. I am playing with a friend of mine and he doesnt have any issues at all.

You just ruled out the possibility of a server-side issue at the end there.

Depending on the cause, it’s possible a VPN might help. Really, you’d need to provide diagnostic data such as a WinMTR file with 500 packets sent to each node along the route for people to say anything with certainty. Steam discussion boards wouldn’t be my first choice for that kind of troubleshooting tbqh.

Well, idk lol i had this issue with the previous provider and i have since changed to a different one but this issue still persists, so idk what could be happening except my internet being freaky, but as i said, i never experience any internet related issues in any other game or anything except PoE 1 and 2, which is weird as heck to me.

I may try VPN someday, thanks for the suggestion.

[ClAyMoRe*]

I am fighting shutters more then anything else in the game atm, try to fight a boss when you are blind for 10 seconds multiple times in a fight.

[Subsonic]

Sounds like a routing issue, you need to trouble shoot your network connection to the servers maybe with tracert, to find the offending node/s, then maybe contact your ISP to resolve the routing.

[SkaldedDawg]

Originally posted by Sarno:

Originally posted by šejd:

I have tried all the realms that have normal latency values and on all of them i am constantly getting insane ping spikes every few seconds. I am playing with a friend of mine and he doesnt have any issues at all.

You just ruled out the possibility of a server-side issue at the end there.

Depending on the cause, it’s possible a VPN might help. Really, you’d need to provide diagnostic data such as a WinMTR file with 500 packets sent to each node along the route for people to say anything with certainty. Steam discussion boards wouldn’t be my first choice for that kind of troubleshooting tbqh.

It's likely a software issue. Something is installed that is deeply hated by your client software. It could be as simply as tweaking network options to account for the specific client software. It could as be a ton of other crap. Do you have a third party antivirus running that the client hates? Maybe it needs to be closed (antivirus). So many things.

[anicKin]

You have the new Nvidia driver? There was PoE2 mentioned.

[tilt agency]

Originally posted by ANiCKiN:

You have the new Nvidia driver? There was PoE2 mentioned.

i got latest nvidia driver but still have the latency issue.

[Sarno]

Originally posted by šejd:

Well, idk lol i had this issue with the previous provider and i have since changed to a different one but this issue still persists,

I am a Network Engineer.

I promise you the explanation is not that a server likes your friend, but does not like you.

I live in Ireland, and I routinely connect to servers located in America, England, and Germany. That doesn’t mean my ISP has infrastructure in all of those countries; they have peering agreements which allow them to exchange traffic with one another. If I changed ISP, my traffic to a server in Frankfurt may well use much of the same infrastructure that it had done before. The internet is bigger than your router & your ISP’s cabinet out on the street.

[šejd]

Originally posted by Sarno:

Originally posted by šejd:

Well, idk lol i had this issue with the previous provider and i have since changed to a different one but this issue still persists,

I am a Network Engineer.

I promise you the explanation is not that a server likes your friend, but does not like you.

I live in Ireland, and I routinely connect to servers located in America, England, and Germany. That doesn’t mean my ISP has infrastructure in all of those countries; they have peering agreements which allow them to exchange traffic with one another. If I changed ISP, my traffic to a server in Frankfurt may well use much of the same infrastructure that it had done before. The internet is bigger than your router & your ISP’s cabinet out on the street.

soooo, meaning i will likely have this issue as long as i live where i live because of the pathing between my pc and the servers?