CS:GO servers in South Africa

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Servers in SA seem to be down. I just get routed to EU servers.
Anyone got any information on why this is happening?

[nepo]

引用自 Eagle_Fusion_ZA：

At the moment it is not quite sure if the problem persists at Mweb (They host the MM servers in South Africa) or if the problem is at Valve, all we know is for some reason traffic to Jhb gets rerouted through Londen that is why is you check the ping measurement in console it will show that Jhb ping is 400+ms

1.) If the servers are hosted in jhb, and routing from cpt -> jhb goes via london, then why are jhb'ers not playing on the server, which according to steam status page is idle!?

2.) Why would mweb route, without notification traffic to jhb via london, which would pressumable affect all their users, including me?

3.) What evidence, do you have that indicates there is a general routing of network traffic to jhb via london?

4.) lastly, who says all the servers for csgo is in jhb ? According to the above fixes, there are servers in cpt, which I should be able to get locally!?

From what I can tell, there seems to be no general re-routing of traffic to the servers listed in the youtube post from the .json file. also, most of the traffic first goes via optinet(IS) to mweb, from what I can see, but I've not looked at in detail. I do not leave south african shores for example, when I traceroute from work to one of the servers listed, and the ping is < 18ms to one of the jhb servers.

All I can think here is that, they must be working on these servers, for what ever reason, and routing all traffic *from* these servers to the nearest working hosts *eu*.

But they not communicating anything which is strange, since the people are paying customers for the most part of their servers. If this was in eu/usa, they'd say something, I would bet.

[Yesh]

this works but servers are empty in cpt
https://youtu.be/r4uwrZXx5tE

[Ezkill]

gg valve, will be fixed in 2019 if my experience with their support is any indication

[dub]

引用自 :P：

引用自 Eagle_Fusion_ZA：

At the moment it is not quite sure if the problem persists at Mweb (They host the MM servers in South Africa) or if the problem is at Valve, all we know is for some reason traffic to Jhb gets rerouted through Londen that is why is you check the ping measurement in console it will show that Jhb ping is 400+ms

1.) If the servers are hosted in jhb, and routing from cpt -> jhb goes via london, then why are jhb'ers not playing on the server, which according to steam status page is idle!?

2.) Why would mweb route, without notification traffic to jhb via london, which would pressumable affect all their users, including me?

3.) What evidence, do you have that indicates there is a general routing of network traffic to jhb via london?

4.) lastly, who says all the servers for csgo is in jhb ? According to the above fixes, there are servers in cpt, which I should be able to get locally!?

From what I can tell, there seems to be no general re-routing of traffic to the servers listed in the youtube post from the .json file. also, most of the traffic first goes via optinet(IS) to mweb, from what I can see, but I've not looked at in detail. I do not leave south african shores for example, when I traceroute from work to one of the servers listed, and the ping is < 18ms to one of the jhb servers.

All I can think here is that, they must be working on these servers, for what ever reason, and routing all traffic *from* these servers to the nearest working hosts *eu*.

But they not communicating anything which is strange, since the people are paying customers for the most part of their servers. If this was in eu/usa, they'd say something, I would bet.

You seriously need to do some reasearch then:

1. Try to connect without changing your files, lets say search for a Comp, then as soon as it gives you the "Ping to nearest servers are 220ms" open up your console in CSGO and then you wil get a nice list of were the servers for CSGO are around the world, you will see CPT servers has a direct route to your PC the ping will be ~70ms, BUT the main relay server for CSGO is in Jhb and for some reason the traffic is not routed from Cape Town but instead from LHW, which is London Heathrow server, thus giving us 400ms ping, because the ping of the relay server "Jhb" is over 400ms it goes to the next lowest ping relay server which is 90% the one in Sweden or Germany.

2. There are 5 matchmaking servers for CSGO in South Africa, 1 in Cape Town, 4 in Jhb (1x Master Relay server, 3 normal servers). All traffic on CSGO are usually routed through Jhb, now if you apply the fix in the network.json file you will SEE if you search again for Comp and open up your console that Jhb now gets Routed through from Cpt and usually it is other way around


Hope it clears it up for you

[Quantum]

I made a little program that fixes this in one click. No install needed https://github.com/Inforcer25/CS-GO-Region-FIX-ZA

[Quantum]

引用自 Eagle_Fusion_ZA：

引用自 :P：

1.) If the servers are hosted in jhb, and routing from cpt -> jhb goes via london, then why are jhb'ers not playing on the server, which according to steam status page is idle!?

2.) Why would mweb route, without notification traffic to jhb via london, which would pressumable affect all their users, including me?

3.) What evidence, do you have that indicates there is a general routing of network traffic to jhb via london?

4.) lastly, who says all the servers for csgo is in jhb ? According to the above fixes, there are servers in cpt, which I should be able to get locally!?

From what I can tell, there seems to be no general re-routing of traffic to the servers listed in the youtube post from the .json file. also, most of the traffic first goes via optinet(IS) to mweb, from what I can see, but I've not looked at in detail. I do not leave south african shores for example, when I traceroute from work to one of the servers listed, and the ping is < 18ms to one of the jhb servers.

All I can think here is that, they must be working on these servers, for what ever reason, and routing all traffic *from* these servers to the nearest working hosts *eu*.

But they not communicating anything which is strange, since the people are paying customers for the most part of their servers. If this was in eu/usa, they'd say something, I would bet.

You seriously need to do some reasearch then:

1. Try to connect without changing your files, lets say search for a Comp, then as soon as it gives you the "Ping to nearest servers are 220ms" open up your console in CSGO and then you wil get a nice list of were the servers for CSGO are around the world, you will see CPT servers has a direct route to your PC the ping will be ~70ms, BUT the main relay server for CSGO is in Jhb and for some reason the traffic is not routed from Cape Town but instead from LHW, which is London Heathrow server, thus giving us 400ms ping, because the ping of the relay server "Jhb" is over 400ms it goes to the next lowest ping relay server which is 90% the one in Sweden or Germany.

2. There are 5 matchmaking servers for CSGO in South Africa, 1 in Cape Town, 4 in Jhb (1x Master Relay server, 3 normal servers). All traffic on CSGO are usually routed through Jhb, now if you apply the fix in the network.json file you will SEE if you search again for Comp and open up your console that Jhb now gets Routed through from Cpt and usually it is other way around


Hope it clears it up for you

This is whats wrong. In the network_config.json file you get this piece of code

		"cpt": {
			"ping_only": true,
			"addresses": [
				"152.111.192.243:27015-27016",
				"152.111.192.244:27015-27016"
			]
		},

The

"ping_only": true,

line only makes it so that it checks if the servers online but never connects to them even tho it is online. Commenting it out eg.

		"cpt": {
			//"ping_only": true,
			"addresses": [
				"152.111.192.243:27015-27016",
				"152.111.192.244:27015-27016"
			]
		},

Makes it ignore that and allows you to connect to the za servers

[TAY-K]

引用自 Ezkill：

gg valve, will be fixed in 2019 if my experience with their support is any indication

2k19 and still not fixed my dude

[Dr dre]

Me to did you manage to sort it out and how. Thanx