shit ping

by malkavian • 7 Aug 2011, 20:29 • Journals
i got 6m connection, a friend of me got 1mb, both from germany, but he always got better ping than me (he got around 60, while i got 100)

are there any net settings that could improve it or router settings like opening ports or anything?
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Krii 7 Aug 2011, 21:36
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malkavian 7 Aug 2011, 21:37
were both from same country
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Krii 7 Aug 2011, 21:38
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malkavian 7 Aug 2011, 22:01
he always got better ping than me, no matter what server
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slotu 7 Aug 2011, 21:44
move to poland bitch
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bira 7 Aug 2011, 22:02
Your packets are routed differently, switch ISP and it may get better.. or worse

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Routing
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Burneddi 7 Aug 2011, 22:35
I think this can be figured out by using tracert

Alternatively it could be your router, Ethernet card, any number of things.
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bira 7 Aug 2011, 23:47
of course you can do traceroute from both PC's and watch the differences, but you can't do anything about it anyway.

I've been working with/studying networking and I can say that I have never seen any wired 10/100mbit Ethernet equipment that have caused such small extra delay.

Ping / RTT / Delay has always been very noticeable if there's something wrong with hardware. For example I have seen Netgear switches that have increased the ping with >175% (gone from 1ms to 175ms) occasionally.

if he ping his own modem from his PC (e.g modem external or internal IP) and receive 40ms, then yes, there's something wrong with his equipment. But I can promise that he won't receive that high latency if he haven't connected things terribly wrong.

I'd just say that his ISP routing is shit and he has to live with it.
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bira 7 Aug 2011, 23:53
By the way - spontaneously there's no way to improve your latency to a server by optimizing your net settings, because there's nothing abnormal with it.

There is one posibility though; you are running ET on a calculator which is too slow to handle 10-20kbit/s of traffic and then it gets jammed. And no, I'm not trolling about that calculator shit, my iPhone would manage to run ET with a stable 1ms ping to a local server if it just had an Ethernet port.

edit: I actually have a latency of 3-25ms from my iPhone to my wireless router and between 36-56ms to Google (8.8.8.8) over WiFi. It's kicking your ass
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Brisk 8 Aug 2011, 04:36
Speed =/= latency. You can get good download with high ping, and slow download with low ping. The routing your ISP has to the server is what really matters.
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