Changing route to a server?

[soja]

Is there any way to change the route my connection takes to a server from the client side?

I have game servers hosted elsewhere(as well as here) and one of them is experiencing an ISP problem, I know they have multiple providers, but they say they cannot do anything about it and that the ISP has to fix it.

My question is there anything that clients can do to avoid this ISP?

Multiple people experience the loss etc on the same node.


Thanks for any help

[Edge100x]

ISPs are client-facing, but NSPs route traffic between ISPs. Is this truly an ISP problem, an NSP problem, or an NSP-ISP interface problem?

If it's a straight ISP problem, then having the ISP fix it is probably the only way to go. The clients with the problem would need to call their shared ISP to complain, in this case.

If it's a straight NSP problem (within the NSP's network), the server host should contact the NSP to ask them to investigate the issue.

If it's between the NSP and the players' ISP, the server host can try removing the NSP from their mix, or adjusting BGP prepends to attempt to make the inbound traffic take a different route; but, these will have side effects for other clients, which may be good or bad, and the measures may not even work. Those steps usually only make sense to try if the ISP is uncooperative in working with the NSP to resolve the situation, and the problem continues for a long time (some number of weeks).

[soja]

The problem seems to only appear later at night(has been 2 days in a row now). I do not have the knowledge to diagnose it as a NSP or ISP problem. Here is the MTR of it: http://serveredirect.com/mk.html

[AciDPuke]

Join the club i'm in San Diego I get routed to Dallas and back through Phoenix to Los Angeles where my server is at, at times its frustrating, usually it corrects itself after a few days in my experience.

[rustydusty1717]

If you are having issues later in the evening, that's generally just ISP congestion. We've all dealt with it, and understand how frustrating it can be. I suggest complaining to your ISP, as well as and friends or family.

[soja]

The congestion doesn't happen on my ISPs network. If you look at the mtr it happens near the end on comcasts network right before the data center. My isp is Time Warner.