Custom lobby region is set to ZA and game is being routed ZA -> EU -> ZA (300+ ms)

[Zoosd]

For a custom lobby set with the region to South Africa (JHB server), my ping is 300ms+. This is unexpected because I live in South Africa.

I've tried the following, with no success:

• Every form of restarting game/steam/pc/network you can include.
• Rerouting applications in ExitLag (Trying to force reroutes & stay in the country)
• A (different) dedicated VPN service
• The console command "net_option SDRClient_ForceRelayCluster jhb" (This doesn't work because of loopback listen servers. From my understanding, this would only work for dedicated hosted servers)

When using "net_connection_stats" in the console (see below), I get routed to Amsterdam first before going back to Johannesburg.

I believe this problem exists because there does not exist a listen server in South Africa, since "citadel_region_override" does not include ZA? I'm not sure how other ZA players do not encounter this problem, since there are a handful of custom games hosted by ZA players each night.

Edit: I bold-faced the important lines in the console response below.

[Networking] End-to-end connection: connected
[Networking] Remote host is in data center 'jnb'
[Networking] Current rates:
[Networking] Sent: 59.7 pkts/sec 13.4 K/sec
[Networking] Recv: 64.5 pkts/sec 16.5 K/sec
[Networking] Ping:310ms Max latency variance: 3.6ms
[Networking] Quality: 100% (Dropped:0.00% WeirdSeq:0.00%)
[Networking] Est avail bandwidth: 192.0KB/s
[Networking] Bytes buffered: 0
[Networking] Lifetime stats:
[Networking] Totals
[Networking] Sent: 789 pkts 141,577 bytes
[Networking] Recv: 755 pkts 211,597 bytes
[Networking] Recv w seq: 754 pkts
[Networking] Dropped : 0 pkts 0.00%
[Networking] OutOfOrder: 0 pkts 0.00%
[Networking] OOOFixed : 0 pkts 0.00%
[Networking] Duplicate : 0 pkts 0.00%
[Networking] SeqLurch : 0 pkts 0.00%
[Networking] Ping histogram: (615 total samples)
[Networking] 0-25 25-50 50-75 75-100 100-125 125-150 150-200 200-300 300+
[Networking] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 615
[Networking] 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 100.0%
[Networking] Ping distribution:
[Networking] 5th 50th 75th 95th 98th
[Networking] 310ms 310ms 310ms 312ms 314ms
[Networking] No connection quality distribution available. (2 measurement intervals)
[Networking] Latency variance histogram: (743 total measurements)
[Networking] <1 1-2 2-5 5-10 10-20 >20
[Networking] 705 23 15 0 0 0
[Networking] 94.9% 3.1% 2.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
[Networking] No rate stats received from remote host
[Networking] No lifetime stats received from remote host
[Networking] Primary router: ams#96 (155.133.248.40:27018) Ping = 150+160=310 (front+back=total)
[Networking] Current rates:
[Networking] Sent: 61.7 pkts/sec 14.4 K/sec
[Networking] Recv: 64.4 pkts/sec 17.1 K/sec
[Networking] Ping:150ms Max latency variance: 3.8ms
[Networking] Quality: 100% (Dropped:0.00% WeirdSeq:0.00%)
[Networking] Bytes buffered: 0
[Networking] Lifetime stats:
[Networking] Totals
[Networking] Sent: 789 pkts 150,262 bytes
[Networking] Recv: 757 pkts 211,649 bytes
[Networking] Recv w seq: 756 pkts
[Networking] Dropped : 0 pkts 0.00%
[Networking] OutOfOrder: 0 pkts 0.00%
[Networking] OOOFixed : 0 pkts 0.00%
[Networking] Duplicate : 0 pkts 0.00%
[Networking] SeqLurch : 0 pkts 0.00%
[Networking] No ping distribution available. (3 samples)
[Networking] No connection quality distribution available. (2 measurement intervals)
[Networking] Latency variance histogram: (744 total measurements)
[Networking] <1 1-2 2-5 5-10 10-20 >20
[Networking] 703 25 15 0 0 1
[Networking] 94.5% 3.4% 2.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
[Networking] No rate stats received from remote host
[Networking] No lifetime stats received from remote host
[Networking] Backup router: par#60 (185.25.182.19:27028) Ping = -1+162=161 (front+back=total)

 

[Zoosd]

Fixed the problem by resetting windows firewall settings to default. Not sure which settings caused this problem, but this seemed to resolve the problem.