California Server Issues

Currently live in Southern California, and for the last few days, any time I use the California servers I experience absolutely atrocious packet loss. I'll sit at around 20 ping, and every few seconds jump to around 200-1000 ping as the game just gives up. If I swap to Texas or DC my ping is nice and steady, but any attempts to use the California servers result in absolutely impossible game play. Not sure if anyone else is experiencing this, or it's an issue with my location or my ISP specifically, but it's just unplayable.

I've had the same experience on the CA servers the past week. It's pretty awful in the Sacramento area. The spiking is so obnoxious I'll usually reconnect once or twice then stop playing. I've seen enough of these threads the last few days to know this is a very common issue but is only affecting certain users and I'd be curious as to what we all have in common.

I'm on AT&T symmetrical gig fiber. Normally when the game isn't taking a crap I get 6-7 ms ping constantly but it jumps to 300-1000 and freezes every 3 seconds or so. When I connect to a VPN through San Francisco my steady ping goes up to about 39 but the connection is stable and no more spiking. I don't want to have to play this with a VPN, though. I'm pretty sure it's a routing issue and I'd be curious who your ISP is.

Likewise, when prime time rolls around the packet loss starts ticking up noticeably. I'm also on AT&T and I"m usually 25ms. Tried Mudfish VPN to route around the issue but it does literally nothing. Tried various work-arounds but the issue persists.

Is it the interchange between what's hosting PoE2's servers and AT&T that might be at fault?

Same issue, SF bay area. Also on AT&T 1G fiber. Switching to Texas servers "fixes" the problem at the cost of +35ms latency.

The behavior I see is a relatively steady 7ms ping then boom packet loss and 1s+ latency then back to normal.