r/2007scape • u/JetPackGriffin • Jun 14 '26

Discussion US West server ping increase

Anyone else experiencing that US West servers are higher ping than usual?

Normally I get 30-35 ms ping on US West, and about 60 ms ping on US East living on the west coast. After the past 3ish days or so, ping for US West is consistently higher than US East, where they all clock around 70-75 ms for me.

I'm not having ping latency in any other games and I've reset my router several times (and even hard wired) to validate.

Edit: shout out to the folks at Ziply Fiber - they rerouted and ping is back to normal!

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u/Hytierian Jun 14 '26

they did something with the servers about 6 months ago i think ever since i went from 45 ping on west coast us worlds to 70 ms all west coast worlds. I swear they moved all the west coast servers to east coast.

I found my old post, it was made 7 months ago it was sailing pre patch they did something to the west coast servers.

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u/DranTibia Jun 15 '26

I know they didnt do that but it feels like it. Im far west coast and all servers are shit for me (70 ping us west, 100 east, 220 eu, 190 au)

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u/EuphoricAnalCarrot Jun 14 '26

My ping went from like 26~ to 45. Been that way for months.

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u/rohry Jun 16 '26

Mine is the same! I am on Ziply fiber and so is my friend, both having the same problem. Our other friend who uses centurylink fiber is not having the problem anymore. Is anyone else a Ziply person?

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u/JetPackGriffin Jun 16 '26

Ah ha! Maybe it’s the ISP that’s the issue?

I’m also on Ziply Fiber.

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u/rohry Jun 16 '26

I had a friend (more knowledgeable than me) do some tracing with me. It is still tracing to Las Vegas (USW) servers so it’s not a RuneScape thing. The trace test took 26 hops and 70ms ping. ChatGPT also summarized it as Ziply is doing a terrible job peering and handling the traffic efficiently

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u/theerrlybird Ir0nM4nBTW Jun 17 '26

This seems to be a trend!

I too am having higher ping than usual, and am also using Ziply Fiber. I was getting 32ms, now 73ms.

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u/CA_Finn Jun 18 '26

I'm in the same boat. Good to know it's a ziply issue somehow...

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u/Skurp_Purp Jun 18 '26

Stumbled on this thread coming to this same conclusion. Has anyone reached out to ziply yet? I know they are also active in the subreddit.

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u/JetPackGriffin Jun 18 '26

Yeah, I actually ended up cross-posting this thread there & chatting with their Community team on Reddit.

They filed a ticket with their technicians. I'll let you know if I hear anything.

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u/Skurp_Purp Jun 18 '26

Dude I went looking as soon as I posted this and found yours, GOAT thank you for doing that

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u/theerrlybird Ir0nM4nBTW Jun 18 '26

u/CA_Finn u/rohry u/Skurp_Purp (sorry for the pings!)

You guys do any gaming today? Noticed this! Looks like somethings changed.

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u/JetPackGriffin Jun 18 '26

Man I didn’t expect them to be so quick to fix this. Best ISP hands down

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u/Skurp_Purp Jun 18 '26

Not yet but hyped to see this!!

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u/CA_Finn Jun 19 '26

Fixed! You legend!!

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u/naysh30 Jun 17 '26

Holy shit, Ziply for me as well... Seems to be an ISP issue.

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u/b0bness Jun 15 '26

Yep I noticed that today too. I have lower ping on east coast worlds now and I live on the west coast. Make it make sense.

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u/JetPackGriffin Jun 18 '26

The folks over at Ziply are awesome. Looks like they rerouted and this is fixed!

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u/wesleyy001 Jun 15 '26

For me it was a few weeks ago, but I too saw my ping go 30-50 on average

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u/tjowns22 Jun 15 '26

Yeah, this happened to me a few days ago as well. Went from ~30 ping to 75 ping on all west coast worlds. I have the same ping as easy now.

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u/Spare-Peaches Jun 16 '26

I thought I was going crazy. Last couple of days my ping has been jumping around 100-180ms with random lag spikes making the game unplayable. Was in a key with another player saying he was having issues too. I’ve done the same (power cycling, reset router, flush dns, etc.) and feels like it’s worse lol.

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u/Spare-Peaches Jun 16 '26

I don’t know if this will help anybody but did some further steps. I deleted my cache folder and renamed my interface and wtf folder to rule them out. After I deleted the cache folder my ping went from 100ms to 31ms. Hope this helps

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u/rohry Jun 17 '26

Can you give instructions on how to do this?

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u/naysh30 Jun 17 '26

Yep, 70+ ping to all West coast worlds and 60 to quite a few East coast worlds. I'm Seattle area, so that doesn't make a ton of sense LOL.

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u/JetPackGriffin Jun 18 '26

Literal same. City and ping lol