High In-Game Ping Despite Low Realtime RTT Graph on TR Europe

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I use Mudfish to reduce my ping in Valorant on the Frankfurt servers. I’ve been trying to use the TR Europe (Bursa - OneProvider) node, as it’s geographically closest to me and shows a good realtime RTT in the dashboard (around 40 ms). However, in-game I get unstable 80 ms, which is almost double the expected value and higher than my original ping.

I’ve tried:

  • Full VPN mode (no improvement, same 78-81 ms ping)
  • FastConnect (actually made my ping worse)
  • TR → DE routing (higher ping overall, ~110ms)
  • MTU tweaks and different protocol modes

Could this be a routing or tunneling issue between the TR node and Riot’s servers? Is there anything I can do, or is there a chance this might improve soon?

Interestingly, I also tried routing through the DE servers, and I got a lower ping (~65 ms, same as my default ping), even though Germany is much farther from me than Turkey.

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Umm… If possible, please send me some game packets using Packet Capture with Mudfish link while playing the game with Full VPN mode.

I need some game packets to analyze for this case. If I know the game protocol properly, it’s based on Anycast - Wikipedia network so it’s a little bit unpredictable in my experience.

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Hey! Thanks for the reply. I recorded the game packets as you requested and uploaded them. I would be very grateful if you could help me resolve this issue.
Let me know if you need any other information from me.

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:slight_smile: Thank you for your packet dump. I’d checked your packet dump but yes it looks the game server is still based on Anycast network.

However I found a workaround(?) to measure the ping but it requires a patch at Mudfish nodes. Currently I’m working on that part to support the new measurement way… So you might need to wait a little bit more until the new server version of Mudfish will be deployed…

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Thanks for the update! That sounds promising. Just to clarify, will this patch actually help reduce my ping, or is it mainly for more accurate measurements?

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Thank you for your interest. My patch is to provide more accurate measurements for this game item. So frankly it’s not related to your ping. However I expect that it’s more helpful to pick a proper mudfish node.

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