Lag spikes

Hi, few hours ago I started getting pretty massive lag spikes - I can hardly even move around my hideout (https://i.imgur.com/NnACRPz.mp4)

• I have no issues with any other online game/app/site, only poe2 is affected
• I played just fine since the league started
• Tried different gateways - no difference

I dug up IP address the game connects to from the Client.txt file in logs folder, and it seems like I'm getting massive packet loss when I try to ping it during the time the issue occurs. The problem starts and stops pretty randomly; I'm having stable 21ms in-game as I'm typing this but 5mins ago I was recording what you can see in the link above.

No clue what to do with this. Is this perhaps something on Akamai's side?
Last edited by TheQbix#2184 on Jun 1, 2026, 1:04:31 PM
Last bumped on Jun 2, 2026, 5:31:15 PM
Same for me for 3 hours now...
It is nothing new, happened in poe 1 and will forever happen in poe 2 for some people

Guess there are "too few" people affected by this for them to fix the issue.
I'm gonna try to bump the thread, hoping someone from GGG might look into this. The issue still happens all day long with minor breaks.

Found some old post where WinMTR testing was recommended so I'll leave this here:

It's 20 minutes during which the issue was present, aimed at IP address I got from the log file. (I blurred out my ISP hops)

I attempted to do some digging and found out that the packet loss is pretty much gone when i connect via VPN (used Cloudflare WARP/1.1.1.1 thing) but it's not really a solution, as it adds an awful amount of latency/input lag.
Last edited by TheQbix#2184 on Jun 2, 2026, 5:45:39 PM

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