Re: Getting 200+ ping despite having selected the best Data Center

by kurozawa6
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Getting 200+ ping despite having selected the best Data Center

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For months I've been dealing with this issue that is exclusive on Apex Legends. The fact that it never happens to any other matchmaking games I've played (CSGO, Valorant, LoL) is proof that the problem lies only on Apex Legends and not on our ISP. I've even done all the basic troubleshooting steps mentioned here over and over out of desperation to no avail. After a few more searches, what I found is that the most common cause of the high ping is that the game sometimes connects/routes me through US servers despite being from Asia (and having chosen Asian Data Centers).

 

I've used a connection tracking tool (LiveTcpUdpWatch) and found that I sometimes in a match am forced to connect to IP's such as these:

161.202.48.196

161.202.48.244

161.202.48.209

169.56.144.161

 

A quick lookup in infobyip.com reveals that these IP's are hosted in US by the ISP, Softlayer. I figured a band-aid fix for this would be to firewall block these IP addresses which was also the solution promoted in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=944kZCUqIXs

 

It became a grind to seek and block every IP connection that gives me 200+ ms which fortunately worked, however, I noticed an increased frequency in getting Code Leaf errors when finding matches (which results into me failing to connect to the server and being booted back to the home menu). It used to be around only 1 in 9 games, but after blocking a ton of IP's with 200ms, it rose to around 50% of all found matches. This isn't much of an issue for me when solo queueing, however, it's a big issue when forming a squad with my friends and my girlfriend as they're often left with 1 member missing.

 

CSGO has a variable called mm_dedicated_search_maxping which does well to prevent players from routing through IP's with higher ping. I'm wondering why Apex Legends never implements this. Is it because the devs are worried of longer queue times? Season 9 will definitely bring a ton of new players, so I'm hoping the devs will focus more on giving better experience than providing as much matches found as possible despite having horrible connections.

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Re: Getting 200+ ping despite having selected the best Data Center

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Please don't tell us to do basic troubleshooting steps over and over. It's getting sickening. We've done those many times to no avail. I even added all Apex Legends ports in my router's port forwarding and watched like 5 youtube vids to make sure I set it all correctly.

 

Update:

After many many games, I found out that all IP's hosted by the ISP, Softlayer, give me a ping of 200+ ms in game. Blocking all IP addresses from 161.202.48.0 to 161.202.48.255 mostly solved the issue, but resulted into more code leaf errors.

 

Edit: IP's from 169.56.144.0 to 169.56.144.255 give me 200+ ping as well and are all hosted by Softlayer in NA.

 

Furthermore, I found some that are hosted in Hong Kong or China that give me 200+ms ping (I connect to these addresses less often):

103.66.181.169

119.81.135.58

103.66.181.171

 

I've no idea why I get high ping in those servers. I've never experienced this in any other online game.

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