Bad latency to Australia server when playing from New Zealand during peak times

This is for POE2 but i assume the same servers are used for both versions of the game.

During peak times, the instance creation spills over onto Australian servers. Which lag TERRIBLY. (some instances are okay, but most of them are super laggy)

Playing on NZ has zero issues, with a low 17ms, going over to Aus shows 40ms, but as soon as there are lots of monsters (high pack size) the game slows to a crawl with lockstep on.

Ping spikes crazy up and down and the server struggles to play catchup. Which results in instant death (especially when opening a breach.

Is there a way to lock myself to auckland server? Even if I need to queue?

As mentioned before this is only during peak times where the Australian servers fall over. Could something be done to help fix this?

bump, can here for the same answers... sick of getting put onto Australia servers and i cannot even map. die because of the lag. if its Auckland NZ - server is mint. Australia is laggy 99% of the time.

can confirm this

even if I use ExitLag with NZ Auckland node I still get put onto Aus server sometimes and it's HORRIFIC. it's a literal SLIDESHOW.

I cannot express how infuriating this is. I open a juiced t16 maps with +2 to maps and I can't even finish it because it opened on Australia realm :(

why !?!?

Having same issue from NZ, started since last patch 3/4 days ago.

Usually I have 6-10ms and its been very stable since ea went live, but since the last patch 50% of the time after opening a new map its dumping me onto a server that has 40-60ms (Assuming an aussie server?).

40-60ms Aussie servers are perfectly fine most of the time, but during primetimes since patch its been lagging extremely hard.

The game microfreezes and goes into a slow mode, only to then go into super speed and catch up. Some of the worst lag ive actually ever seen in an online game.

It's been fine up until the last patch.

1000/400 Fibre, tested other games that are hosted here in NZ and in AU, 0 issues other than with POE.

Bump - same for me in the last couple of days

its the same for me playing on au servers while being from au.

Can confirm. Horrendous slideshow lag since release. It is unplayable. All other MMO and MOBA are perfectly fine. Diablo 4 and POE1 included.

Being sent to Aus server is making the game unplayable as a NZ player not able to map ruins the game

Can confirm also noticing this issue starting to occur, initially through was my PC hardware, but all is fine.

i only just noticed this as of today never had problem with servers and that is for aus and pretty much all the OCE servers are just bloop its kind of unplayable....
its like fine in town go in to map combat starts and everything zooms and you play catch um like dial up kind of its 10/10. unsure what happened exactly.