Traceroute, and connection problems.

Hey guys, over the past few days I've been trying to PvP. I've noticed something very disturbing, the entire lack of stable latency/ping during PvP.

I'm located in central Texas and have 20MB cable and my latency/ping in all other games is absolutely flawless. Speed test attached - http://www.speedtest.net/result/992577792.png

The traceroutes have been showing that my connection jumps across the Atlantic ocean all the way to Frankfurt, Germany. Why in the world would it do this? Am I connecting to a European based server by accident, bad routing issue, something overlooked? Something isn't right, and would love to figure out how to get past this issue.

(My Traceroute)

Computing statistics for 12 seconds...
Source to Here This Node/Link
Hop RTT Lost/Sent = Pct Lost/Sent = Pct Address
0 Cameron-PC [192.168.0.100]
0/ 3 = 0% |
1 0ms 0/ 3 = 0% 0/ 3 = 0% 192.168.0.1
0/ 3 = 0% |
2 12ms 1/ 3 = 33% 1/ 3 = 33% 10.244.128.1
0/ 3 = 0% |
3 19ms 0/ 3 = 0% 0/ 3 = 0% 173-219-254-234-link.tex.sta.suddenlink.net [173.219.254.234]
0/ 3 = 0% |
4 40ms 0/ 3 = 0% 0/ 3 = 0% cdm-66-76-30-181.tylrtx.suddenlink.net [66.76.30.181]
0/ 3 = 0% |
5 73ms 1/ 3 = 33% 1/ 3 = 33% te-7-4.car4.Dallas1.Level3.net [4.71.122.17]
0/ 3 = 0% |
6 45ms 0/ 3 = 0% 0/ 3 = 0% ae-73-70.ebr3.Dallas1.Level3.net [4.69.145.116]
0/ 3 = 0% |
7 62ms 1/ 3 = 33% 1/ 3 = 33% ae-7-7.ebr3.Atlanta2.Level3.net [4.69.134.22]
0/ 3 = 0% |
8 68ms 0/ 3 = 0% 0/ 3 = 0% ae-2-2.ebr1.Washington1.Level3.net [4.69.132.86]
0/ 3 = 0% |
9 68ms 1/ 3 = 33% 1/ 3 = 33% ae-81-81.csw3.Washington1.Level3.net [4.69.134.138]
0/ 3 = 0% |
10 76ms 1/ 3 = 33% 1/ 3 = 33% ae-82-82.ebr2.Washington1.Level3.net [4.69.134.153]
0/ 3 = 0% |
11 157ms 0/ 3 = 0% 0/ 3 = 0% ae-41-41.ebr2.Frankfurt1.Level3.net [4.69.137.49]
1/ 3 = 33% |
12 157ms 1/ 3 = 33% 0/ 3 = 0% ae-72-72.csw2.Frankfurt1.Level3.net [4.69.140.22]
0/ 3 = 0% |
13 --- 3/ 3 =100% 2/ 3 = 66% ae-2-79.edge6.Frankfurt1.Level3.net [4.68.23.78]
0/ 3 = 0% |
14 --- 3/ 3 =100% 2/ 3 = 66% 195.16.161.58
0/ 3 = 0% |
15 --- 3/ 3 =100% 2/ 3 = 66% 206-127-156-82.plaync.com [206.127.156.82]
0/ 3 = 0% |
16 157ms 1/ 3 = 33% 0/ 3 = 0% 206-127-145-228.plaync.com [206.127.145.228]

Trace complete.
*--> pathping -w 500 -q 3 -4 64.25.39.1 <--*

This is really destroying an otherwise, amazing game experience. Thanks in advance for the help solving this issue.

-Gorefiend

This is what a quick search of google pulled up.

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Arena...dates/20070701

This is from 2007, and I'm still experiencing this issue? Seems kinda odd.

does this only occur during PVP? If this has only started happening recently chances are it will go away by the next update. :/

Yes Elder, I have only noticed it in PvP.

Not sure exactly how they have the servers set up to route data, and how it differs via different PvE/PvP regions. But it does indeed, change.

I've also just submitted the issue, along with my dxdiag to support. Since they are aware of this problem, but that post was from 2007.

Since the regions seem interconnected is there any way to make sure my connection only connects to US servers only?

you used to be able to force the server from the command line but i dont know if the switch for that works anymore.