High latency to east coast only

[richard31693]

Over the last 5 nights during peak times, I have been having issues trying to game online with my brother (Fortnite specifically). My ping will be upwards of 600 at times making the game impossible to play. What's weird is at this time, my download speed remains the same at 10mb and if I run a cloudping.info test, the west coast is still only 120-150. I'm in Indiana so I'm much closer to the Ohio and Virginia. My ISP is blaming the game/company and in the same breath saying bandwidth exhaust is currently in affect, which doesn't add up because the speeds are the same except to the east coast. Plus, the latency only exceeds 100 on evenings and weekends, but nobody else in my area or on the Fortnite forums has this issue. The problem is both on a ps4 and pc, wired and wireless. Anything I can do?

 

[Ralston18]

Peak times.

And peak times tend to follow time zones....

Please remember and recognize that there is a considerable amount of online shopping etc. taking place plus many people at home gaming, working from home, or Skyping with family.

What you can do is run tracert and pathping via the command prompt targeting the gaming site's IP or the Fortnite forums to determine where the lags or delays occur.

Lags may or may not be within your network or even that of your ISP.

And you cannot make an assessment based on just one or two tests. Traffic is routed through many different locations and any particular session may go through multiple paths.

Could simply be some outage somewhere and, once fixed, your service may return to normal.




Only takes one broken link along the way to really slow things up.