Middle East Servers (High Ping)

Technical Support
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Hey,

Basically, I live in the Middle East (Kuwait) and the servers just dropped today. My friends are getting 40-60 ms while I’m still at 120-130 and I’m not sure why. I’m going to share my results from the Looking Glass:

TRACEROUTE:
traceroute to 78.154.249.120 (78.154.249.120), 15 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 Blizzard Blizzard 0.305 ms 0.301 ms 0.291 ms
2 37.244.25.130 (37.244.25.130) 0.512 ms 0.589 ms 0.662 ms
3 Blizzard Blizzard 1.312 ms 1.316 ms 1.386 ms
4 137.221.66.32 (137.221.66.32) 1.104 ms 1.172 ms 1.279 ms
5 137.221.77.70 (137.221.77.70) 7.597 ms 7.608 ms 7.661 ms
6 137.221.65.19 (137.221.65.19) 7.393 ms 7.384 ms 7.355 ms
7 137.221.79.34 (137.221.79.34) 7.437 ms 7.607 ms 7.818 ms
8 195.66.224.123 (195.66.224.123) 8.116 ms 8.122 ms 8.144 ms
9 * * *
10 84-235-94-201.saudi.net.sa (84.235.94.201) 97.065 ms 97.470 ms 96.397 ms
11 adsl29-19.qualitynet .net (62.150.222.19) 98.139 ms 98.254 ms *
12 * * *
13 * * *
14 * * *
15 * * *

14/04/2020 22:00:59 UTC

TRACEROUTE:
traceroute to 78.154.249.120 (78.154.249.120), 15 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 Blizzard Blizzard 0.318 ms 0.306 ms 0.303 ms
2 37.244.24.131 (37.244.24.131) 0.894 ms 0.899 ms 0.898 ms
3 Blizzard Blizzard 1.109 ms 1.151 ms 1.199 ms
4 137.221.66.42 (137.221.66.42) 0.656 ms 0.661 ms 0.659 ms
5 137.221.78.76 (137.221.78.76) 1.144 ms 1.138 ms 1.135 ms
6 137.221.78.32 (137.221.78.32) 1.077 ms 1.020 ms 1.815 ms
7 80.249.212.145 (80.249.212.145) 1.372 ms 1.379 ms 1.376 ms
8 * * *
9 * * *
10 adsl29-19.qualitynet .net (62.150.222.19) 98.167 ms 98.243 ms 98.542 ms
11 * * *
12 * * *
13 * * *
14 * * *
15 * * *

14/04/2020 22:00:59 UTC

PING:
PING 78.154.249.120 (78.154.249.120) 56(84) bytes of data.

— 78.154.249.120 ping statistics —
4 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 2998ms

14/04/2020 22:00:59 UTC

PING:
PING 78.154.249.120 (78.154.249.120) 56(84) bytes of data.

— 78.154.249.120 ping statistics —
4 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 2999ms

14/04/2020 22:00:59 UTC

MTR:
Start: Tue Apr 14 22:00:59 2020 Blizzard 1.|-- Blizzard 0.0% 10 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.4 0.0
2.|-- 37.244.24.131 0.0% 10 0.5 0.5 0.4 1.2 0.0
3.|-- Blizzard 0.0% 10 1.2 1.3 1.0 2.5 0.3
4.|-- 137.221.66.42 0.0% 10 0.6 2.2 0.5 12.7 3.8
5.|-- 137.221.78.76 0.0% 10 0.9 5.5 0.8 28.0 9.8
6.|-- 137.221.78.32 0.0% 10 1.1 7.3 1.1 35.6 13.2
7.|-- 80.249.212.145 0.0% 10 1.2 1.3 1.2 1.5 0.0
8.|-- ??? 100.0 10 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
9.|-- 84-235-94-201.saudi.net.sa 70.0% 10 95.2 95.4 95.2 95.9 0.0
10.|-- adsl29-19.qualitynet .net 0.0% 10 97.8 97.5 96.5 98.8 0.6
11.|-- ??? 100.0 10 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

14/04/2020 22:00:59 UTC

MTR:
Start: Tue Apr 14 22:01:00 2020 Blizzard 1.|-- Blizzard 0.0% 10 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.0
2.|-- 37.244.25.130 0.0% 10 0.5 0.6 0.5 1.0 0.0
3.|-- Blizzard 0.0% 10 1.3 2.2 1.3 9.1 2.4
4.|-- 137.221.66.32 0.0% 10 0.9 0.9 0.8 1.0 0.0
5.|-- 137.221.77.70 0.0% 10 7.4 13.8 7.2 47.8 12.9
6.|-- 137.221.65.19 0.0% 10 7.5 7.6 7.4 8.8 0.3
7.|-- 137.221.79.34 0.0% 10 16.2 8.4 7.5 16.2 2.7
8.|-- 195.66.224.123 0.0% 10 8.0 8.3 8.0 10.3 0.6
9.|-- ??? 100.0 10 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
10.|-- 84-235-94-201.saudi.net.sa 60.0% 10 96.6 96.6 96.5 96.9 0.0
11.|-- adsl29-19.qualitynet .net 0.0% 10 98.2 98.5 98.2 100.3 0.6
12.|-- ??? 100.0 10 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

14/04/2020 22:00:59 UTC

Thankssss

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am having the same problem too ;w;

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Hello Nero!

As the current situation occurring worldwide increases and mitigation measures are put in place to slow the spread, many people are stuck at home with little to do but play, watch movies, etc. A great deal of people are also working from home.
This has created unprecedented strain on the internet. To ensure an “okay” service for all, ISPs may de-prioritize traffic deemed non-essential. For a streamed movie, that’s not a problem. For a ping intensive game, it’s not so great.

From your details it would appear that the issue occurs within your ISP’s network, so contacting them would be your course of action after ensuring the issue isn’t with your local machine:

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I’m located in Lebanon which is closer to Europe than the arabian gulf(which I assume is where the new middle east servers are located). As soon as the servers opened up, my ping went up from 80ms to 130ms. I have been looking on the forums, and it seems players from all countries that are close to Europe have been complaining too (Turkey for example). Could you please give us the option to connect to European servers again instead of the Middle eastern ones?
Thank you

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When I playing alone,my ping usually get 40-60ms,but when I playing with my friends from saudi arabia,my ping just stucked at 200+ms recently,is there anyway to fix this problem?

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Stop using your copy/paste and help us instead. I’m having the same issue as many do on the forum.

screenshot https://imgur.com/xJq3d9m

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I’m having the same Issue,i live in Algeria which is in north africa,closest country to EU and i was having a constant 75 ping,just yesterday my latency increased from 75 to 98 - 122 and it’s so unacceptable,do you have any solutions for us ?

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have you managed to switch back to EU somehow ?

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Just either give us an option to choose wether we’d like to play in me or eu servers or just remove the middle east servers, the game is LITERALLY unplayable, i have to wait 50 minutes to get a game this is so bs!!!, I can’t even get support games because of my high sr.

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Nope. It keeps connecting me to the Middle East servers sometimes, while i live 20km away from Amsterdam.

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Please let us choose our own servers. This is NOT FAIR.

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I used to get 40 ms a month ago, now I get 90 - 100 ms every game.
We need to be able to choose the server to connect to.

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