Using cox comm, I'm assuming they're throttling league players like some other ISPs have been doing recently. Usually have 63-70 ping, late last night(around 12) my ping spiked up to 80. A few hours later my ping was consistently around 105. Asked a few friends that live in my area and they all said they have around the same ping. Woke up about an hour ago, checked my ping and its back to sitting around 80. Is there anything riot can do to stop these ISPs?
yeah Idk it kinda sucks. I had to switch isps because my old one was unreliable but my new one doesn't have the same ping to league. More than doubled my download Mb/s but my ping jumped like 13. It's been a little higher as of late, about 4-5 more than average. I don't know if there's anything we can do about it.
That's about average for what I've been getting with CenturyLink.
I think part of the issue is the state itself - Riot just doesn't have a server as close or whatever.
I just noticed this today as well. Live in Phoenix, have the second highest tier of Cox and my latency jumped up to 80-90 ping in game. Oddly enough, I can ping their supplied server IPs and I get similar latency as what I'm used to, leading me to believe this is somehow client related, but seeing as how there is almost no reporting on this it's hard to say.
And before anyone starts linking all the crap RIOT provides, I went through their entire troubleshooting guide multiple times and have done my own work settings up my DNS and updating ALL drivers. This is replicated across multiple machines across my network with the same OS, but different hardware. Considering the fact I can manually ping RIOT servers at 65ms, but in game it's over 80 is highly suspicious. I'm used to shit ping failing every once in a while(all ISPs are monsters and deserve to be buried alive in greasy chicken fat) but normally I can replicate the latency issue with my own ping/network tests to throw at the techs who come out to inspect me "perfectly fine line". I'll admit I'm not a network guy, but I've done my research in terms of troubleshooting network specific issues and something isn't lining up.
And as far as "issue is the state itself", no. My mother in law that lives in Peoria gets 50ms stable when she plays, and she has like 4 other teenage boys hogging the bandwidth streaming HD skinflix.
If an ISP is throttling a service or users, then the service or users can sue the ISP using Net Neutra...
Oh wait.
Enjoy the ping increase and eventual packet loss.
