Extreme Ping Issues Only in the Evening

Hello, I recently returned to Wynncraft this year and everything was great up until a couple months ago. I noticed that in the evening, my ping became so extremely high that it is unplayable. For a few hours in the morning it works normally, and for the rest of the time I experience the ridiculously high ping.

I have no idea why this is, as my internet is very fast, I have a high end PC and every other server works fine, and on the server list it shows my ping as <50 and it doesn't fluctuate. Once I enter the server though, it can sometimes reach 6 digits... This seems very strange to me. I am located in Canada, so theoretically it shouldn't be a proxy issue, right? And I have tried a VPN, and I haven't noticed much of a difference... Support has offered no insight either.

Has anyone else experienced this as well? Were you able to fix it? I would love to be able to play Wynncraft more regularly. :( Any insight / advice would be appreciated!

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This happens to me completely at random times of the day in Europe. No idea what's possibly behind this.

 

from my experience when player activity is high you can sometimes get routed to servers far from you.
here's something you can do to troubleshoot assuming youre using windows:

once you start getting ping issues, keep wynncraft open and type cmd in the windows search bar to bring up the command prompt.
in the command prompt, run:
tasklist | findstr javaw

you'll get something like this:


take that number after javaw.exe, for the above case this is 7916. then, run:
netstat -ano | findstr 7916
replacing 7916 with whatever number you have.

this will bring up a list of established TCP connections from your computer to the wynncraft servers (assuming you are not running anything else that uses java). locate the address on the second column ending in ":25565" (can't post screenshot as ip addresses are quite sensitive and I dont want to get in trouble) . that's the address of the wynncraft server you're connected to. you can then relog and see if its the same address every time you have ping issues. I had this exact issue and realized that one of the servers are super laggy for me, so I went into the windows firewall to block that server's ip. game's been running smoothly ever since. hope this helps

 

Thanks so much for the insight, I will definitely look into this!