North American Routing Issues?

[Robotron]

K GUYS GET READY FOR 7 O CLOCK LAG

K GUYS GET READY FOR 8:30 LOGIN SERVER RIP

Every. Single. Fucking. Night. Times are PST (so 04:00 and 05:30 server). We raid at NA prime time, which is 03:00-07:00 server.

[Ohhgee]

Yeah, it's like clockwork at this point. Totally unplayable during the same time period every single night.

[Robotron]

The lag is avoidable if we make sure not do do anything sensitive from 04:00-04:05 server. The login server issue is fucking horrible because we usually get to Nef at around that time, and we log out except for one person to check the phase 1 colours. Even with everyone stuck at REEEEEEEEEtrieving character list/full blue bar for like 15 fucking minutes, it's still faster than having to Hearth to Kargath, run back to BRM, then clear the bottom half of the depression room.

[Ohhgee]

Unplayable lag, once again at the same time as always. EVERY night for 3 weeks now. Connection is 100% fine all day, then suddenly 700 ms. Same time every night.

Absolutely infuriating.

[SnowFlakes]

Have you tried playing through a proxy of some sort, Ohhgee?

[Ohhgee]

Using a VPN seems to help, but it's effecting a lot of people and a (permanent) server-side fix is obviously needed.

[Imbaslap]

don't they do a server backup or save or some shit during that time every day? it's always the same timeframe and only during US timeframe.

[Norjak]

If the login server goes down, a VPN will not help. It may help to resolve issues with reaching it.