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Suspicious change in ping -- possible virus? Let me know if this is the right board for this

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July 11, 2014 3:29:25 PM

recently (3 days ago) I was getting unusual ping to a central server in a game i play regularly. Usually from my west coast location I get around 70 something ping to the central servers, but that number jumped up 20 to 30 ping unexpectedly, and has been that way consistently since. while trouble shooting (rebooting and checking for suspicious process) I went to check the game to see if the ping had changed -- it hadn't, but I did notice that I was instead getting my usual 70 something ping to all east coast servers, and in reflection my ping to east coast in this game is usually 20 to 30ping more than what i get to central. Oddly enough ping to west coast has stayed the same, and from asking around in game I've yet to find anyone else with a similar issue.

What could explain this? As it says in the title i really don't know where to put this, so if a better place exists, please let me know.

EDIT: i have made my exact ping vague in accordance with "Don't share ping information." not sure if this is what that means, but if being vague is necessary, then that has been done.

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July 11, 2014 4:43:11 PM

More than likely, it's just a routing change due to an issue somewhere down the line. Do you know what your trace route was before the issue and if so, have you compared it since your ping increased?

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July 11, 2014 5:18:16 PM

pretty much the only risk is if you would give out your ip address and that is only for the kiddies who think it is funny to denial of service someone, if you have a router it is unlikely anyone can do much to you since it in effect acts as a firewall. Maybe they could figure out which city you live in at the most. Most the other addreses are of routers or servers that are well known and used by many people.

You would have to have historic traceroute to determine what changed. It is not uncommon for the pathing to change between 2 location. One or more ISP in the path may have adjusted a route to better balance the traffic or a connection could be down. Even if you know exactly what changed there is not a lot you going to do about it. The only ones you can have a influence on is the very first connection between your house and the ISP. If this one would increase it normally indicates some problem with the connection. Most times this does not increase it just get packet loss.

A increase in latency mean the data is traveling further. It is not uncommon for data to not follow the most direct path because of agreements between ISP and the points they meet. You really would have to have both your ISP and the server ISP be the same to get the optimum path.....assuming it is one the large tier1 ISP that have large network and don't depend on others a lot.
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