CSGO matchmaking region problems

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Does anyone know how to change your matchmaking region in CSGO? Every time nowadays if I play casual or anything else really, I get sent to European servers and I get high ping, rubberbanding, etc (you know the drill). So I want to set the region or server I guess, back to JHB/South African servers to make the game actually playable...

Thanks in advance for the help!

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PrimeSteak
 
PrimeSteak said:
Does anyone know how to change your matchmaking region in CSGO? Every time nowadays if I play casual or anything else really, I get sent to European servers and I get high ping, rubberbanding, etc (you know the drill). So I want to set the region or server I guess, back to JHB/South African servers to make the game actually playable...

Thanks in advance for the help!

Kind Regards
PrimeSteak
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There is a slider in the settings for "Max acceptable ping" or something like that.

Your ISP's routing could also be buggered.
 
PrimeSteak said:
Does anyone know how to change your matchmaking region in CSGO? Every time nowadays if I play casual or anything else really, I get sent to European servers and I get high ping, rubberbanding, etc (you know the drill). So I want to set the region or server I guess, back to JHB/South African servers to make the game actually playable...

Thanks in advance for the help!

Kind Regards
PrimeSteak
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Is it just csgo specifically or is it the same in other games? if it is then i would say something related to ISP or VPN on your side
 
Rickster said:
There is a slider in the settings for "Max acceptable ping" or something like that.
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I set this option to 130 to see if it helped but no... I called the ISP of ours last week to sort this out cause before last week if I even tried to play on SA servers (any game really, not just CSGO) I get 200+ ping and **** tons of packet loss, after explaining my problem to the guy from the ISP, he asked what games I played, I responded accordingly and he said he'll reset everything... Not even a week after and I'm back to square one.

Can't wait for fibre...
 
Retro1337 said:
Is it just csgo specifically or is it the same in other games? if it is then i would say something related to ISP or VPN on your side
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Rocket League's not so bad but I also get random ping spikes, high ping sometimes and I haven't even tested Siege yet but it's a problem with online gaming in general...
 
You cannot set the server; matchmaking does a regional lookup. You can change the ping threshold, but it is no guarantee, it will always send you to the nearest available node in matchmaking.

Do you have a VPN enabled?

This is also a phenomenon on non-local Steam accounts, non-prime gets regional placement where your Steam account is located at though this can be bypassed by queuing locally.
 
PrimeSteak said:
I could try that...

Yes, but I do have a direct Ethernet connection to our router.
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The moment you said this,

I responded accordingly and he said he'll reset everything... Not even a week after and I'm back to square one.
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I knew. Take it up with them again, but email them listing your grievances and then you call them bringing the email to their attention. Do remind them they have already made a reset, but that it temporarily remedied the issue you are experiencing.
 
Fulcrum29 said:
The moment you said this,



I knew. Take it up with them again, but email them listing your grievances and then you call them bringing the email to their attention. Do remind them they have already made a reset, but that it temporarily remedied the issue you are experiencing.
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Ok, I'll try it... Once the trenching and installation of the fibre in our town is done, I'm switching to fibre from Herotel and leaving our current ISP.
 
PrimeSteak said:
I could try that...

Yes, but I do have a direct Ethernet connection to our router.
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Sounds like local signal issue but if it is your ISP's routing then try Cloudfare Warp as another option, it's a free VPN app that routes your traffic through cloudfare's network. My pings improve quite a bit with it:
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zoozi said:
Sounds like local signal issue but if it is your ISP's routing then try Cloudfare Warp as another option, it's a free VPN app that routes your traffic through cloudfare's network. My pings improve quite a bit with it:
1.1.1.1

1.1.1.1 — The free app that makes your Internet faster.

Install the free app that makes your phone’s Internet more fast, private, and reliable.
1.1.1.1 1.1.1.1
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Was just about to suggest that as well.
 
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