ZOS, Massive Spike in Ping/LAG in Recent Days - What Gives?

whitecrow · September 24

Getting quite a bit of lag in recent days. I typically don't.

erebus_79_ESO · September 26

PC/NA crashing before character loading into game. Just trying to turn in my daily writs!

blktauna · September 26

Ive been dropped from PCNA several times in the last two days.

ISCOLDSOUL · September 28

Well I have updated everything my end, still horrible lag spikes, now with added load screens as I do my daily writs, and bonus invisible enemies in dungeons, I think the time has come for me an ESO to part ways.
PS
I have cancelled my ESO plus and walking away for a while, tired of ZOS's *** attitude, the game had become frustrating, not fun, which defeats the purpose of playing

MrGarlic · September 29

I've stopped playing the game this week (other than logging on for daily log-on reward) due to the high ping (PCNA.)

I did a TRACERT and it looks normal, however there is a large disparity between the ping to the PCNA server and what is actually reported in-game. It is a difference of 280ms ping compared to ingame 340ms. The extra ping is noticeable when opening and looting containers, opening doors and collecting mats, where I get the 'Target out of range' error often.

Something is wrong ZOS at your end.

[SNIP]
6 19 ms 20 ms 18 ms ip-116-251-190-56.as55850.net [116.251.190.56]
7 32 ms 34 ms 38 ms et-0-0-2.ch-p-2.as55850.net [103.26.202.252]
8 36 ms 35 ms 38 ms et-0-0-8.cpc-p-2.as55850.net [116.251.184.250]
9 46 ms 55 ms 38 ms et-0-0-31.cpc-p-1.as55850.net [116.251.184.92]
10 * * * Request timed out.
11 281 ms 286 ms 283 ms 198.20.200.1

manukartofanu · September 29

I just ran into the weirdest bug. In Oathworn Pit, right at the end on the finishing blow, I suddenly turned invisible and everything froze. Meanwhile, I see people already typing in chat, thanking and congratulating each other. Then I get a “cannot connect to gameserver” message.
Which means that “cannot connect to gameserver” doesn’t necessarily indicate an actual connection problem — not even with ZOS servers — but it can serve as a placeholder for some unknown error.
The explanation that “your internet didn’t drop overall, but only to the ZOS servers” doesn’t hold up. Otherwise, how would I still be receiving chat messages from other players?