Undersea Cable woes?

[noman]

Expect internet disruptions in SA as two undersea cables snapped on same day | News24

Two undersea communication cables that are critical for network operators in South Africa snapped simultaneously, which has resulted in disruptions to the internet.

www.news24.com

Struggling with ping dependent multiplayer games finding lobbies this week. Gears & HALO specifically. Is it a fair assumption that rerouting of internet traffic because of cable breakages is the primary reason?

 

[Lord of the Pies]

Yeah, I've had to start using Cloudflare Warp+ Unlimited on Mac and iPhone to get 500Mbps on Afrihost. And my Vultr servers in Joburg were so stuffed that backups were timing out to Backblaze B2 in the US, which tbh is unacceptable under any circumstances. Data centres are supposed to have redundancy for any scenario. Switched my local servers to other providers and they're fine now.

I haven't played PS5 in 2+ months but Series X has been fine.

 

[biometrics]

It’s been great for me actually as I’ve been working on diagnostics software for our platform and real world packet loss helped me find areas that needed improvement. Much better than unplugging a network cable or taking off an antenna.

 

[Old User]

Install Cloudflare Warp.

It bypasses most issues of bad routing from ISPs.