Meursault wrote on May 23
rd, 2015 at 11:30am:
OK Flav, since it's you I did a traceroute

maybe you can do one and see if you're getting substantially different results?
I reckon you never heard of LAG ? ( no not the one you think... Link AGgregation )
typically :
9 cr1.wswdc.ip.att.net (12.123.10.18) 46.914 ms cr1.wswdc.ip.att.net (12.123.10.14) 50.381 ms cr1.wswdc.ip.att.net (12.123.10.18) 53.511 ms
and
9 cr1.wswdc.ip.att.net (12.123.10.14) 48.290 ms 49.472 ms cr1.wswdc.ip.att.net (12.123.10.18) 27.594 ms
are the same... you just have two ( or more ) links agregated ( probably 14/15 and 17/18 )
Same for hop 10, 11, 13 [at least 5 Links], 14 [at least 5 links], 15 [ at least 3 links], 17 [At least 2 Terabit links]
you go through ATT at first, then you move to Telia, then to Internap/PNAP.
I can't tell what ash ( hop 13 ) is... WAG Asheville... nyk us New York, Bost is obvious
The logon server is gls.ddo.com. ( that's the account server that autthentify you and allow you to connect to the real game server.
The 20 tries usually is tied to a firewall issue.
and my traceroute :
C:\Users\Guillaume>tracert gls.ddo.com
Détermination de l'itinéraire vers gls.ddo.com [74.201.102.13]
avec un maximum de 30 sauts :
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms <removed, internal LAN IP>
2 14 ms 14 ms 14 ms <removed, ISP external 'WAN' IP>
3 14 ms 14 ms 14 ms 10.123.108.202
4 14 ms 14 ms 14 ms ae41-0.nista202.Paris.francetelecom.net [193.252.98.177]
5 17 ms 15 ms 15 ms 81.253.184.18
6 17 ms 15 ms 15 ms hundredgige1-8-0-3.pastr2.Paris.opentransit.net [193.251.241.180]
7 15 ms 14 ms 14 ms 213.248.72.185
8 15 ms 15 ms 15 ms prs-bb2-link.telia.net [213.155.134.226]
9 89 ms 133 ms 108 ms nyk-bb2-link.telia.net [213.155.135.7]
10 97 ms 96 ms 93 ms bost-b1-link.telia.net [80.91.249.15]
11 107 ms 104 ms 105 ms internap-ic-304640-bost-b1.c.telia.net [62.115.38.110]
12 95 ms 96 ms 96 ms border1.te8-1-bbnet2.bsn003.pnap.net [63.251.128.107]
13 197 ms 167 ms 125 ms turbine-7.border1.bsn003.pnap.net [64.95.76.202]
14 98 ms 98 ms 99 ms 74.201.102.154
15 95 ms 95 ms 95 ms 74.201.102.13
Itinéraire déterminé.
C:\Users\Guillaume>
for the sake of completeness : Opentransit = France Telecom = Orange.
Pastr2 is Pastourelle ( It's a big data center for France Telecom in Paris behind Beaubourg that contains a lot of equipments )