Distance to the server 272 km... i'm dutch, live near the german border..
The server is laggy from early morning till late in the evening, if it's already overcrowded early morning ncsoft should obviously upgrade their potato servers.
If their ISP lags then again they should fix a proper ISP, Amazon just s…. for game servers.. the servers they had before were totally fine..
There is no software causing spikes, if software was causing spikes it would happen when I connect to NA or JP aswell..
Same with downloads, also high ping from downloads would be visible if I ping other servers while playing bns… and like I said my ping to other places, and other bns servers is totally fine...
Also I tried 6 vpn's by now...
And I have my own clan, had it since beta... I hear people complain about lags all day long..
Also I pvp a lot, when I get the chance even tho my ping is horrible most of the time ;/ and there a LOT of people have the same problem..
A lot need VPN to play, others can't find a vpn server that makes it stable.
Many already quit the game for this reason aswell, ex top 5 players who just can't pvp anymore because they went from 60 ms to 150 after amazon server switch..
Fun fact: at times my ping to NA is both better and more stable then in EU... while its on the other side of the world rofl.