Why is the Texas server always finicky?

I know it has to do with the Texas servers and not my PC or my ISP. Live on the northern side of Houston and ping 77-110 to the Texas server but I ping 30-50 to the Washington DC server and 100-120 to an EU server. A server that is more than 1000 miles away pings half of what a server 100 miles away. A few other ways I tried to test my ISP is use another game that uses Dallas servers, 20-30 ping. Pingtest google.com -t in command prompt and ran 18ms. Did a tracert for the Dallas poe servers and timeout two out of the three tries to the "ae-1-3513.ear4.Dallas1.Level3.net". I understand you cut servers down as the league moves on but when I ping better to servers on the other side of the world than the one about 150 miles away, seriously think you guys have an issue.

TL;DR Texas servers have worse ping that EU servers for a Texas resident.

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Kavale wrote:

I know it has to do with the Texas servers and not my PC or my ISP.

Unless you have a WinMTR or ping plotter to prove otherwise then yes it IS your connection.
If this is such a problem for you why have you not done the basic first and try to get the problem fixed rather than come here to whine and lay blame with no hope of help?

I just go in through washington now. Texas used to give me the best ping for some reason, not anymore.

I go through Texas and get a 35ms ping from Kansas.
You might want to run a tracert or something to see where your connection is hanging. Sounds like a bad router inbetween you and the server with that specific route.

For whatever reason I'm now getting routed through a telia node that caused my latency to jump from 15 ms to 44ms.

Overnight.

Not sure why the sudden change but Im hoping whatever routing horse shit occurred gets reverted before the flashback (otherwise it looks like swapping to washington which has a lower average ping now is the better option, I'm in Louisiana btw, who would have thought I have worse ping to a texas server than a washington server).

Edit as if my some sort of magic I am now not routed through the telia node and what do you know, back to 15 ms.

Not sure if hte telia node is used as an over flow or whatever but screen shots from pingplotter for proof I guess.