High Ping in Overwatch [UK] [03/06]

Same, high ping in UK allday. Playing US server has lower ping lel

I am having the same issue as everyone else here. I usually have 35ms ping, I am now locked at 120ms ping. I have tried everything to fix it, resetting the router, ipconfig release/renew and dnsflush, even reinstalled the game and tried the exitlag application, nothing fixed it.

Plymouth, UK
Virgin media ISP
3/6/2021 - first noticed at around 10am, problems still persist at 6.30pm

I couldnt get pathping or MTR to work so here are my lookingglass results, hope it helps

PING:
PING X (X) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from x: icmp_seq=1 ttl=45 time=110 ms
64 bytes from x: icmp_seq=2 ttl=45 time=108 ms
64 bytes from x: icmp_seq=3 ttl=45 time=109 ms
64 bytes from x: icmp_seq=4 ttl=45 time=109 ms

--- x ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 2999ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 108.733/109.360/110.143/0.611 ms


03/06/2021 17:40:16 UTC
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TRACEROUTE:
traceroute to x(x), 15 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  Blizzard Blizzard  0.279 ms  0.272 ms  0.269 ms
 2  * * *
 3  * * *
 4  * * *
 5  * * *
 6  * * *
 7  * * *
 8  * * *
 9  * * *
10  * * *
11  * * *
12  * * *
13  * * *
14  * * *
15  cpc94108-newt38-2-0-cust528.19-3.cable.virginm.net (x)  114.229 ms  114.280 ms  118.604 ms


03/06/2021 17:40:16 UTC
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MTR:
Start: Thu Jun  3 17:40:16 2021 Blizzard  1.|-- Blizzard    0.0%    10    0.3   0.3   0.3   0.3   0.0
  2.|-- ???             100.0    10    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0


03/06/2021 17:40:16 UTC
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Same here for me too at 19:08. Usual Ping around 28ms. Now 142ms.

Everyone appears to be playing on Middle Eastern servers, explains the high ping and wealth of Arabic speaking players. Nice to hear some languages you don’t hear every day, not so nice playing with a ping so high! Would be nice if the admins acknowledged and gave us an ETA on when the issue will be resolved.

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If it helps, I tried playing through a VPN and the ping was way lower. Can be used as a temporary workaround until they fix it.

Sadly it did not work for me.

Just play NA.

NA players in gold are hilariously bad, and even more hilariously toxic.

I don’t care about the results tonight. I am just laughing my a$$ off at them.

I am also experiencing high ping on Overwatch and World of Warcraft. I noticed I was getting 120 ms on console so I thought I would try on PC and I still got the same result. I have tried multiple ways on trying to fix it.
Games outside Blizzard aren’t affected.

It is a Blizzard issue.

You can’t do anything except cope, or not play.

Yep same issue here - playing from UK. Usual latency is 30-40ms. Consistently over 150ms now. No changes to setup / networking etc

Same problem, playing from UK. Looking glass result below.
Country: UK
City: London
Date: 03 JUNE

TRACEROUTE:
traceroute to 82.129.120.130 (82.129.120.130), 15 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 Blizzard Blizzard 1.859 ms 1.848 ms 2.528 ms
2 37.244.25.130 (37.244.25.130) 2.541 ms 2.543 ms 2.552 ms
3 Blizzard Blizzard 2.537 ms 2.538 ms 2.546 ms
4 137.221.66.34 (137.221.66.34) 12.096 ms 12.113 ms 12.114 ms
5 * * *
6 * * *
7 137.221.65.149 (137.221.65.149) 167.371 ms 167.468 ms 167.443 ms
8 137.221.65.15 (137.221.65.15) 167.434 ms 167.432 ms 167.299 ms
9 137.221.65.102 (137.221.65.102) 167.388 ms 167.396 ms 167.409 ms
10 137.221.65.25 (137.221.65.25) 189.520 ms 264.112 ms 262.883 ms
11 137.221.79.32 (137.221.79.32) 167.256 ms 167.287 ms 167.284 ms
12 195.66.238.158 (195.66.238.158) 168.015 ms 168.175 ms 167.974 ms
13 82.129.120.130 (82.129.120.130) 170.825 ms 171.730 ms 171.578 ms

03/06/2021 20:53:57 UTC

PING:
PING 82.129.120.130 (82.129.120.130) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 82.129.120.130: icmp_seq=1 ttl=46 time=180 ms
64 bytes from 82.129.120.130: icmp_seq=2 ttl=46 time=179 ms
64 bytes from 82.129.120.130: icmp_seq=3 ttl=46 time=180 ms
64 bytes from 82.129.120.130: icmp_seq=4 ttl=46 time=180 ms

— 82.129.120.130 ping statistics —
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 2998ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 179.797/180.197/180.555/0.507 ms

03/06/2021 20:53:57 UTC

PING:
PING 82.129.120.130 (82.129.120.130) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 82.129.120.130: icmp_seq=1 ttl=49 time=171 ms
64 bytes from 82.129.120.130: icmp_seq=2 ttl=49 time=170 ms
64 bytes from 82.129.120.130: icmp_seq=3 ttl=49 time=173 ms
64 bytes from 82.129.120.130: icmp_seq=4 ttl=49 time=170 ms

— 82.129.120.130 ping statistics —
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 2999ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 170.595/171.575/173.328/1.187 ms

03/06/2021 20:53:57 UTC

TRACEROUTE:
traceroute to 82.129.120.130 (82.129.120.130), 15 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 Blizzard Blizzard 0.328 ms 0.327 ms 0.327 ms
2 * * *
3 * * *
4 * * *
5 * * *
6 * * *
7 * * *
8 * * *
9 * * *
10 * * *
11 * * *
12 * * *
13 * * *
14 * * *
15 * * *

03/06/2021 20:53:57 UTC

MTR:
Start: Thu Jun 3 20:53:57 2021 Blizzard 1.|-- Blizzard 0.0% 10 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.4 0.0
2.|-- ??? 100.0 10 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

03/06/2021 20:53:57 UTC

MTR:
Start: Thu Jun 3 20:53:57 2021 Blizzard 1.|-- Blizzard 0.0% 10 0.2 0.4 0.2 0.8 0.0
2.|-- 37.244.25.130 0.0% 10 1.5 0.9 0.6 1.5 0.0
3.|-- Blizzard 0.0% 10 0.9 1.0 0.9 1.4 0.0
4.|-- 137.221.66.34 0.0% 10 0.6 0.6 0.5 0.9 0.0
5.|-- ??? 100.0 10 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
6.|-- ??? 100.0 10 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
7.|-- 137.221.65.149 0.0% 10 167.3 167.4 167.2 167.9 0.0
8.|-- 137.221.65.15 0.0% 10 168.0 169.3 167.2 185.8 5.8
9.|-- 137.221.65.102 0.0% 10 167.4 169.9 167.2 190.6 7.3
10.|-- 137.221.65.25 0.0% 10 167.4 175.4 167.2 247.2 25.2
11.|-- 137.221.79.32 0.0% 10 167.6 174.6 167.5 204.8 14.0
12.|-- 195.66.238.158 0.0% 10 168.4 168.5 168.0 170.3 0.6
13.|-- 82.129.120.130 0.0% 10 170.4 170.9 170.1 171.7 0.0

03/06/2021 20:53:57 UTC

I have seen some people talking about it on the NA forums.

The only response has been “we’ve not seen many people talking about it on the EU forums”…

That was less than an hour ago.

I was experiencing the same ping issues as well from the UK and I scanned and repaired game files in the Battle.net launcher and that seems to have fixed my ping and taken it back to normal (around 40ms)

i just installed the game yesterday and the ping is unplayable even in custom games constant stable 156 ping

Country and City: United Kingdom, Wakefield
Internet Service Provider: BT
Date/time of connection issues: Started today (since playing at 4pm), been happening constantly all day
WinMTR:

|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| 

|                                      WinMTR statistics                                   |

|                       Host              -   %  | Sent | Recv | Best | Avrg | Wrst | Last |

|------------------------------------------------|------|------|------|------|------|------|

|                             192.168.1.1 -    1 |  422 |  421 |    0 |    1 |   15 |    1 |

|                           172.16.13.143 -    1 |  414 |  411 |    0 |    8 |   58 |    4 |

|                   No response from host -  100 |   86 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |

|                           31.55.187.188 -    1 |  422 |  421 |    0 |   14 |   65 |   12 |

|                          195.99.127.224 -    0 |  425 |  425 |   10 |   14 |   65 |   10 |

|  peer1-et-7-0-5.interxion.ukcore.bt.net -    0 |  425 |  425 |   10 |   18 |  103 |   30 |

|                            99.82.181.50 -    0 |  426 |  426 |   11 |   16 |   66 |   11 |

|                   No response from host -  100 |   86 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |

|                   No response from host -  100 |   86 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |

|                   No response from host -  100 |   86 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |

|                   No response from host -  100 |   86 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |

|                   No response from host -  100 |   86 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |

|                   No response from host -  100 |   86 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |

|                   No response from host -  100 |   86 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |

|                   No response from host -  100 |   86 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |

|                   No response from host -  100 |   86 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |

|                   No response from host -  100 |   86 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |

|                   No response from host -  100 |   86 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |

|                   No response from host -  100 |   86 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |

|                   No response from host -  100 |   86 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |

|                   No response from host -  100 |   86 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |

|                   No response from host -  100 |   86 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |

|                   No response from host -  100 |   86 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |

|                   No response from host -  100 |   86 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |

|                   No response from host -  100 |   86 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |

|                   No response from host -  100 |   86 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |

|                   No response from host -  100 |   86 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |

|                   No response from host -  100 |   86 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |

|                   No response from host -  100 |   86 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |

|                   No response from host -  100 |   86 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |

|________________________________________________|______|______|______|______|______|______|

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Pathping:

Tracing route to ec2-15-184-41-93.me-south-1.compute.amazonaws.com [15.184.41.93]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
  0  DESKTOP-K4LCDFT [192.168.1.15] 
  1  192.168.1.1 
  2  172.16.13.143 
  3     *        *        *     
Computing statistics for 50 seconds...
            Source to Here   This Node/Link
Hop  RTT    Lost/Sent = Pct  Lost/Sent = Pct  Address
  0                                           DESKTOP-K4LCDFT [192.168.1.15] 
                                0/ 100 =  0%   |
  1    1ms     0/ 100 =  0%     0/ 100 =  0%  192.168.1.1 
                              100/ 100 =100%   |
  2  ---     100/ 100 =100%     0/ 100 =  0%  172.16.13.143 

Trace complete.

SHould be ok now. Fingers crossed

Issue appears to be fixed now, my game is now routing to Amsterdam servers instead of Middle East

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This issue is pain in the ass, is there an ETA for fix?

Should already be fixed… at least it was about 10pm last night.

Same story, UK Virgin Media instead of 30 is 150 today. Tried from mobile hotspot, even worse. Something with servers, and there is no notification in launcher, people have to dig like idiots if they have isssues with connection