I've been in this game since before it went public, I've been in every beta and spent the first few years as a paid customer. I never in that entire time ever had an issue with Latency, the game has always played smooth for me. I have had the same internet connection for all the time I have played this game. Recently I decided to re-up my subscription as I was beginning to miss the game and when I can afford to, I love to support my favorite online games.
For the first couple of weeks the game played beautifully, as the time ran on I began to notice some latency issues but gave it no thought and just played on. IN the past couple of weeks the the latency became more frequent until now the game is consistently in 999+ fluctuating to 660 and 799 then back to 999+. I have rarely hit 200.
At first thought maybe it was my system which is actually very powerful so I updated my adapter's drivers to the most recent and removed a few unnecessary apps that I found running on Win10, that made no difference I then added a port forward to my router and created a static IP for my system and that made no difference. I called CenturyLink techs and they verified I was getting the speed I have always had to my modem. The last thing on the list on my end will be to update the firmware to my modem, which in fact I've been using to play the game with no issues up to now and my router is a high end Asus. Soooo
With all that said and the realization that I'm not the only one who is noticing this problem, all I can say is WTF!! I'm not a computer novice I build my own system's and have run my own servers, do server maintenance and have been a webmaster for 25 years. Please don't tell me to check my ping please don't tell me it's my connection please don't....
This is a problem for many so what's the deal?