Do you know what happens when your internet packets travel all the way from here to Luxembourg?
Do you know what happens when your internet packets travel all the way from here to Luxembourg?
I use Spectrum as my internet service provider. Usually, the connection is super fast. But sometimes when I try to play World of Tanks, I get a weird routing issue. Can anyone explain what's causing this? This path from California to Texas usually takes way too long—like 1/2 of the world's circumference even without stopping in between. Normally it takes days to finish, but my routers aren't finding faster paths quickly enough. Why is that? Thanks so much!
Why do you think the traffic is going to Luxembourg? Your latency is still around 75 milliseconds. You'd need a magic network that breaks the rules of physics, but even fiber optics can't go faster than light. A reverse lookup of an IP address means almost nothing because it relies on someone manually updating DNS info while IPs move around in a company. At best, you can get the company owning the IP and guess where it is based on other IPs in the path. 75 milliseconds is a bit high when traveling from California to Texas, but Wargaming might not be hosting in a data center that has an ISP with a direct path. You can guess the traffic is going through Chicago if the names are right. The traffic going via Luxembourg would take about 150ms instead... remember these times are round trip measurements if you try to actually calculate speed of light and distance stuff.
It might be Luxembourg, Wisconsin 🤔 Yeah I noticed a .lu dot at the end of the address.
Here is no fiber, just a slow cable that only goes 200 Mbps. This is what my speed test shows when I try it against a random site in Dallas: Is there anything I can do on my own side (not using a VPN) to get them to fix the POS router?
The IP address isn't Luxembourg; it's actually somewhere in California: https://ipgeolocation.io/browse/ip/208.115.136.42, which points to an Equinix Chicago IBX account. You can see what else they own at https://www.pch.net/ixp/details/268. And gcore.lu takes me there: https://gcorelabs.com/, where a cloud service lives. It's possible the app is sending you around different nodes depending on which one is active right now. Sometimes routing network traffic is just weird.
ok, I think I got what you need to know, you are connected to wot3 which is the server in chicago, the other things are some services or players that the game has. i do not actually know if wot is a p2p game with servers for the login and authentication but it seems like all the first pack of ip are players (so it look like a p2p) and the last is the chicago server that may only have to give you the log in and authentication with all ur saves. ps looking better the image could be that wot3 now is washington and not anymore chicago, btw your ping is not high but we are near, is a pleasable gaming expirience but not actually a competitive one. Have a nice day
You might be experiencing some internet problems. I open up my command window and keep sending a ping command to the server's IP address... if the server doesn't answer back, you can try using 8.8.8.8 as an alternative. That is likely what will happen next time they show you outages. Using 8.8.8.8 would just say it has generic internet issues, not that the game or servers are broken. You might see some packet loss and big spikes in ping numbers. Check this when you notice things happening in the game to tell if those things line up with a server issue. What you're hoping for is lots of pings going down at once, which usually means your ISP can find and fix that error faster than anything else.
Did they kick you just because of your ping? No, that's not normal. You don't have an incredibly high ping; you do, but not to the point where people would kick you. Looking at the numbers in the photo, if you are seeing a 22ms ping, that is actually pretty good! The others had higher pings... To lower your ping, there is only one real way: get into FastTrack mode. It will help a little bit. For me it cut my ping by 20 ms, but the longer range helps more too. Also, sometimes if they kick you without saying why, it might be because you disconnected for missing a connection. This happens in GTA Online when people use solo public sessions. You pause your client for about ten seconds, then the server kicks you and lets you get back into the lobby. Sometimes on WoT it does that too. Now you can mark this thread as solved. The mystery is finally explained!