Latency - My end or server end

[Mephisto_Helix]

Ok so usually my North America ping is at the 260-290 mark (has been for years on different ISP's) but the last few weeks it's increased to 300-320 which is still ok for an MMO but today I log on and bam, it's in the 400's. Funny thing is ping tests show normal to a variety of other NA sites or servers ...... so it has to be a server issue right? Here's a tracert of the offender, seems to bug out on hop 11 -

>tracert gls.ddo.com

Tracing route to gls.ddo.com [198.252.160.23]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 10.0.0.2
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 40 ms 134 ms 39 ms 196.38.74.246
4 40 ms 40 ms 39 ms cdsl3-umh-gi0-0-0-3102.ip.isnet.net [196.38.74.245]
5 39 ms 39 ms 39 ms 196.26.210.212
6 38 ms 40 ms 40 ms mi-za-umh-p8-ten-0-0-0-1.ip.isnet.net [168.209.93.240]
7 212 ms 216 ms 210 ms core2b-dock-pos-0-3-4-1.ip.isnet.net [168.209.0.27]
8 208 ms 210 ms 208 ms xe-4-3-2.edge3.London1.Level3.net [195.50.124.33]
9 * * * Request timed out.
10 299 ms 275 ms 273 ms nyc2-brdr-02.inet.qwest.net [63.235.42.101]
11 407 ms 417 ms 417 ms ewr-cntr-12.inet.qwest.net [205.171.17.6]
12 420 ms 411 ms 417 ms 206.103.215.54
13 418 ms 411 ms 405 ms 63.236.3.130
14 * * * Request timed out.
15 421 ms 419 ms 411 ms 198.252.160.23
16 418 ms 421 ms 416 ms 198.252.160.23

Trace complete.

 

[WAslayer]

This is not just limited to your side or server side..

It's your side, server side AND everything in between.. that is your ISP and their network and all other providers networks along the hops to also consider..

Latency jumps at hop 11 belonging to qwest, so there is the issue.. whom ever owns qwest has to investigate..