Might be where you live - in Australia we generally have a poor connection to anything overseas, especially North America. I have a 3ms ping to servers in Australia but go 500ms upwards for overseas servers.

My characters freeze stance mid weapon swing, no damage numbers appear for several seconds and then they all appear at once. My ultimate can take 3 or 4 activations before it goes off, I can get stunned after activating a skill, causing the skill not to fire, etc. Being competitive in PVP is completely out of the question.

I think it's all because of the time it takes for my command to reach the server and what happens on the server in that time.

I moved to a PS5 in the last few weeks and while it has improved loading screen times, it does not fix the lag. I'm on Fibre Optics to the premises (FTTP), 55mbps download, 20mbps upload - but the poor international connection is completely out of my control.

Have you contacted your ISP to discuss this problem with them? It could be an issue of them routing you to the EU server in a non-optimal configuration.

You're on console, which changes things quite a bit. You don't have to deal with addons, custom UI, or a corrupt install.

This sounds more like a latency or packet loss issue either on your end or on the console server's end.

ISPs aren't always particularly reliable as to routing. It's somewhat dependent on the quality of employees (at least here in the states - and believe me, most of EU, except maybe Germany as a German friend has said to me, has far better internet especially for those of us in rural areas).

Years back, when the only connection I had was dialup, I had serious issues getting connected and staying connected while I was trying to get a client's websites up. I called up my ISP - the only ISP available back then in the late 90s, and told them what was happening and what it was doing to my business with my client's websites.

They spent quite a lot of time checking the routing setup - because I live in the back of beyond (40 miles from the nearest broadband) - and eventually finagled the routing so that I wasn't having the issues any more. They routed the main first ping node from somewhere in SoCal to level 3 Denver, and I had very little issues after that. Now I'm on satellite - and HughesNet is still routing my connection through level 3 Denver, and for a satellite connection, I have really no issues at all as long as I don't expect gig speeds from satellite (which I know better than of course)!

My suggestion would be that you ask your ISP to connect you to at least Tier 2 support (actually Tier 3 would be better) and see if you can get them to test different routings for you from where you live in the UK to - uh - Frankfurt, is it?

They will probably want you to do a tracert to double check packet loss and timeouts to begin with. Most ISPs do.

Yeah, the fact that everything else is ticking along like clockwork tends to make one believe it's GOT to be on ZOS's end. Now, I do know people in UK who are not having this issue - or at least not right now.

Good luck. Hope they can help you out somehow. If all else fails try a VPN?

Mansquito wrote: »

TaSheen wrote: »

Yeah, the fact that everything else is ticking along like clockwork tends to make one believe it's GOT to be on ZOS's end. Now, I do know people in UK who are not having this issue - or at least not right now.

Good luck. Hope they can help you out somehow. If all else fails try a VPN?

Thank you mate and yeah, VPN is another option I could try. Bit of a last resort I guess, along with creating a new account. But I can wait and see what other suggestions there are and follow up the ones that have been out forward so far, so it's better than where I was at which is trying to play the game but being miserable because it doesn't work how it should.

Hey, update us so we know how it's going, 'kay? And best of British luck to you!