[WXC/VFX] League of Legends Oceania server ping problems

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#173677 1-Jun-2015 19:13

I've been with WXC for over 5 years now, and over the past weeks/months I've started to get quite a lot of lag issues in League of Legends (not sure about other games as I don't play others). Normally my ping will be around 30-50 and in the past I very rarely have ping issues, but lately it'll spike up to somewhere between 150~300 and stay there for a long time. It's not a lag spike where I get 999 or disconnected, but I'll be playing on a constant 200-300 ping for the whole game, or in the bad times, the whole night. This happens at all times of the day, although I haven't tested too much weekdays during the day as I work fulltime.

It's an ongoing issue where some nights it'll be good, and others it won't, or sometimes it'll be bad for an hour or so, and I have experienced this over the past few weeks/months. Tried doing resets and all that jazz. I'm in Kingsland (urban) on Fusion Unlimited plan on ADSL2+ (getting UFB soon), with the MP264 router. Speedtest doesn't really tell me anything out of what I would expect. Router reports 10.56Mb down/736Kb up (normal for me). Connected to an exchange AFAIK.

Anyway, I'm unsure if this issue is worth looking at until I get fiber, but just wondering if anybody else on WXC has been experiencing intermittent ping times.

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#1315681 1-Jun-2015 19:13

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#1315786 1-Jun-2015 22:08

You using WiFi? If so, theres your problem.

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zarzob

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#1315801 1-Jun-2015 22:23

Sorry forgot to add, no I'm not on WiFi.

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#1315846 2-Jun-2015 07:47

Possibly related to the threads in various other ISP forums about significant slowdown / throughput issues over he last 2 weeks or so?

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http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=158&topicid=173427

http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=158&topicid=173472

zarzob

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#1315924 2-Jun-2015 10:01

Thanks. It does sound like it's not an isolated problem (if it is indeed this same issue). I'll wait for things to smooth out and hopefully it'll be fixed soon.