Competitive matches are dead at my rank and my queues are reaching above 60 minutes. Is there any way to disable the middle east servers? I can’t join any competitive games…
wish there is a way. I just switched to NA even tho my ping is so high, but I can have fun.
I’ve coppied this from reddit but i also saw this posted somewhere here and used it. it works 100% of the time. just check after doing it by ctrl+shift+n to see which server ur connected to, should be on the top left corner, just google the letters as im not sure right now. follow this to block the server using firewall.
" The easiest way to load the firewall controls is the following:
- Use Windows-R to bring up the run box of the operating system.
- Type WF.msc and hit the enter key.
- Once you have opened the firewall controls
- Click on Inbound Rules on the Windows Firewall with Advanced Security window.
- Select New Rule under Inbound Rules on the right.
- Select Custom rule on the next screen and click on next.
- Leave everything as is on the screen that comes up and click next (all programs selected).
- Leave everything as is on the ports and protocols screen and click next.
- Select “These IP addresses” under “Which remote IP addresses does this rule apply to”,click add, and enter the scope by starting with first two numbers then put 0.0 for the last 2.
- Add these ranges:
- From: 157.175.0.0
- To: 157.175.255.255
- Then click OK
- Then add again
- From: 15.185.0.0
- To: 15.185.255.255
Click ok, the IP range should now be listed under these IP addresses. Click next. Select block the connection on the next screen. This blocks those IP addresses so that connections cannot be established anymore. Leave everything as is on the next screen and click next. Name the new rule and add a description to it if you want. The new rule appears in the inbound rules list now. Now do the same to the outbound rules list. Doing all this will help European players avoid connecting to the middle eastern servers, and will also let middle eastern players play in the European server with MUCH fewer queue times if they wish to play there.
If you wish to connect back to middle eastern servers then you disable the rules. Hope everyone finds this helpful and happy gaming overwatchers! "