Constant lag spikes

EU (Milan) realm:
In the evening (around 20.00) the game spikes uncontrollably and becomes unplayable, before i even died in a fracture pack size map, the game froze for 30s and then the time sped up to the infinite curvature of space-time... It wasn't just me, most of us experienced this and died in that map, feels like the servers can't handle the evening load and even more so the fracture mod.

No response from any dev yet? Quite disappointing..

Bumping this for visibility. Having this problem for a while now, and much worse since Ascendancy went live. Completely unplayable when I'm getting spikes.

I have lag spikes of >500ms that occur every 5 seconds or so, on every server, on every ISP I used so far and I have had this issue for around a year now and this is the main reason (next to lack of new acts) I stopped playing.

I have never had issues with delay/lag spikes in any other games i play in MP, neither mobas nor FPS games.

Oh thank gawd!

I thought I was going crazy! 'No one else' seemed to be having this issue in game, yet I can barely play for 5 minutes without disconnects and major lag spikes - on any server!

Could you lot make your own thread with the appropriate test results don't while you play for at least 300 seconds rather that continue to bump a dead thread from the middle of last year like...it's not the same issue

I have the exact same problem. I do tracert in Command, and everything is fine, but playing the game I get spikes right around 1000MS once every 5-10 seconds. It looks exactly like the first thread when playing, and this has happened since Talisman.

I am playing on an Asus G751JY laptop, connected to the same network as two other people, neither of which is having this problem. That seems to indicate it is something between the Path of Exile client and the hardware on this computer. I can play any other game I own online without any lag spike/problem whatsoever, this only happens with Path of Exile.

Please let me know if there is something I should try to fix this. Currently have tried:

Connecting via wireless instead of wired
Reinstalled Graphics drivers
Reinstalled Network drivers
Reinstalled Path, both via Steam Client, and standalone.

I would also like to express that I am have having extreme lag issues. I have never had issues with lag playing PoE until the recent Ascendancy update. Constantly, the game is freezing, loading enemies/spells for upwards of 6 seconds and it's severely hindering my ability to play the game. I see this is a far reaching issue that other people are having issues with so hopefully it's fixed in the coming days.

same issue since ascendancy

To me this lag spikes started after The Awakening expansion. Now i am disconnecting randomly middle of the play plus with lag.