This issue has been ongoing intermittently for well over a year. I've raised this now because in the last few days the issue has worsened to the point where I cannot maintain a stable connection without experiencing significantly higher latency and packet loss, now very much unplayable without a VPN (Hotspot Shield). I lack the networking expertise and ability to do anything about it or to troubleshoot much more than gather information for those who might.
The short of it I believe, is that somewhere along my network route to the PotM server, a routing hop is failing: somewhere between New Zealand and Germany. I've experimented with trying different VPN servers that route my traffic differently, and this does avoid the problem in the majority of instances, save the VPN servers in NZ and Australia (which have this issue or use the same route possibly). Another player, Vandal, appears to experiencing the same issue who is also in New Zealand.
When the issue did not occur a year or more ago, typically pinging would reveal ~270ms to IP 46.4.59.55 (PotM).
Over the last couple of days, pinging is now earning me ~300ms-320ms with several failures. Each of these matches stalling of receiving data if I was in-game.
It may be worth noting that Arelith's servers have never been an issue, nor do I have connectivity issues in other games or services I use.
A PotM module reset does not fix this.
Screenshots:
Today's result, PotM versus Arelith:
Vandal's result today w/out VPN (bad):
Yesterday's result w/out VPN (bad):
Today's result w/ VPN to Germany then to PotM (better):
Today's result w/ VPN to New Zealand then to PotM (bad):
Traceroute to PotM yesterday:
Hop 15?
Traceroute to PotM today:
Traceroutes fail when connected to HotSpot Shield VPN.
So I'm now paying a subscription for a VPN service to play where I could do so without the expense. Any suggestions?