Ping spikes to 8000-10000 every 2-4 minutes, consistent for the past 12 hours

Had this same issue with Mercs for the first three weeks or so then it randomly resolved itself. DC gateway, east coast USA. First few days of league ran perfect, now getting the same exact issue as Merc league. Changing instances (reentering the same map, even) has a chance to just brick the instance with tens of thousands of MS lol. Hope things get fixed soon, frustrating to have happen on back to back leagues where I never had issues before.

Worst it's ever been for me. Switching NA servers doesn't help at all, Tx, Ca and DC are all unplayable at times.

Any news about this? it happened last poe 2 league had to stop playinug happening again this time.
All i understand is basically it doesnt connect to the correct gateway..when switching instances

having the same isue aswell act maps or ascendancy doesent matter one sec 30 ms next it starts climbing upto 30k ms then disconnects

Unplayable. I tried everything I could think of, re-install game and drivers, tweak every possible in-game option to pin-point the issue. nothing.

the only thing I haven't tried is messing with BIOS options or using a VPN, but at that point I just rather not play.


I can handle a bit of lag, it's not like I'm located near the closest server available (playing at 80-120 ping usually, not a problem for me), all other leagues I've played I always got killed by lag spikes in one or two instances but these are not even a fraction of the issue I'm having right now, it's literally unplayable.

it's safe to assume:

-not a graphic issue, but a network issue
-affects only a fraction of players, not all of them
-probably a change that came with the new league, I don't remember being this laggy on other leagues, and I haven't changed my isp in a million years


I enjoyed what little I could experience from this new league, it's not my favorite but it's up there, I only wish I could have experienced it properly

Accept it guys GGG doesnt care, aslong people by there items of the shop. I could accept performance issues 9 month ago, but the game as to improve and instead it gets worse with each update. Imagine selling a broken car IRL... Unacceptable

Connection is already starting to break again in the Brazil realm. Here is a winmtr of a full map.

https://pastebin.com/fsKJczM4

This issue has happened for me since scourge. I have to use a vpn to circumvent certain "hops". It's the only way I can play. I believe whatever level 3 service we are routed to just basically load balances everyone and throttles their connection. POE is especially sensitive to this. The only time I ever had it "fixed" was when someone cut the fiber line near a huge junction and was put on a temporary line. They fix the fiber, and boom issue came back.

This issue is still happening to me, less frequently than before but it still is happening, some instances are fine 5ms or so and some are atrocious, oscilating between 100~600ms while there is nothing near me, and 10000ms+ when engagin with Breach or Blight, Had several "i Quit" moments because of this.

Brazil Realm

Singapore server

The moment I enter into an instance that is not town, latency will spike to 1000+ and constantly rise afterwards. Highscore is 40,000ms before dc.

Notice this is especially happening from GMT+8 7pm-2am where it is the most active time of the day.

Happening since league start.

Its so bad I just stop playing poe when it starts happening.

Fix.