Question Getting low ping on severs other than my country's.

[ravitejachavan]

I am using a Fiber connection and the ping that I am getting to servers of my country(India) is very high(150ms+) and when I'm playing on the servers like Singapore I'm getting about 50-60ms. Same problem in all the games. I have also checked on the speedtest.net and same results( ping to Hyderabad server- 150ms and ping to singapore server- 50ms) . I have given a complaint to the ISP, but i don't think they will resolve, Please give me some guidence to the problem. The speeds are fine BTW.

 

[Lutfij]

Uninstall and reinstall your networking drivers and see if that helps. Check and see what version BIOS you're working with. If there are any updates pending. You forgot to mention the system, if it's a laptop or a desktop. If on a laptop, include make and model, if on desktop, include specs.

You might also want to mention if you're connected via Ethernet or a router is your intermediary to the ISP's connection. If so, make sure your router is on the latest firmware update.

 

[ravitejachavan]

Uninstall and reinstall your networking drivers and see if that helps. Check and see what version BIOS you're working with. If there are any updates pending. You forgot to mention the system, if it's a laptop or a desktop. If on a laptop, include make and model, if on desktop, include specs.

You might also want to mention if you're connected via Ethernet or a router is your intermediary to the ISP's connection. If so, make sure your router is on the latest firmware update.

Thank you for the reply, I am having this issue with my laptop and also with my pc, laptop is connected over wifi. It is a router and on the latest firmware. Is there anything that I want to change with my router settings?

 

[bill001g]

That is strange in some ways because 60ms from india to singapore is very good.

Although you can spend a lot of time with tracert and ping trying to find out why you likely can do nothing to change it.

The problem can not be your equipment or the connection to your house. All your traffic only really has 1 option you send it to your router and it gets sent over your connection to the ISP. They delay on this path will be the same no matter where you are sending it. Your equipment would not just randomly hold data in buffers for certain ip ranges.

Now once the traffic gets to the ISP there it can take different paths between ISP. This is all based on ISP capacity and agreements they have with other ISP. Its not likely they will even give you any information on this. Now if you were getting packet loss in some path that they would likely fix because it means there is a error but delays most times are because of how the network is designed.

Your only real option which is not a option for most people is to get a different ISP that might have a better path. The other option which if you are really lucky is some vpn service might have better latency. Maybe you get lucky and you can find a VPN service that has good latency to your ISP and have better connections to the ISP of the servers you want to access.

 

[ravitejachavan]

That is strange in some ways because 60ms from india to singapore is very good.

Although you can spend a lot of time with tracert and ping trying to find out why you likely can do nothing to change it.

The problem can not be your equipment or the connection to your house. All your traffic only really has 1 option you send it to your router and it gets sent over your connection to the ISP. They delay on this path will be the same no matter where you are sending it. Your equipment would not just randomly hold data in buffers for certain ip ranges.

Now once the traffic gets to the ISP there it can take different paths between ISP. This is all based on ISP capacity and agreements they have with other ISP. Its not likely they will even give you any information on this. Now if you were getting packet loss in some path that they would likely fix because it means there is a error but delays most times are because of how the network is designed.

Your only real option which is not a option for most people is to get a different ISP that might have a better path. The other option which if you are really lucky is some vpn service might have better latency. Maybe you get lucky and you can find a VPN service that has good latency to your ISP and have better connections to the ISP of the servers you want to access.

Thanks for the reply, I will test it out with a VPN.

 

[bill001g]

I normally do not recommend them but there are vpn services that claim to improve "gamers" latency. For the USA and EU this is a bunch of crap but in asia including india in some cases this can be true. A lot of the connectivity is via undersea cable and not all ISP have good access to these connections.
Hopefully most these services have trial periods or money back. There really is no way to tell how well they work until you actually use them.

 

[sophiaaxel]

I normally do not recommend them but there are vpn services that claim to improve "gamers" latency. For the USA and EU this is a bunch of crap but in asia including india in some cases this can be true. A lot of the connectivity is via undersea cable and not all ISP have good access to these connections.
Hopefully most these services have trial periods or money back. There really is no way to tell how well they work until you actually use them.

I was facing same issue with overwatch game but then i was guided to use vpn service for it and it just working great in my scenerio. I used to play with different server by port forwarding to the closest server.

 

[ravitejachavan]

Update: I have used a VPN and the pings were just fine 30-40ms for my regional servers. What do you think the problem is?

 

[bill001g]

You ISP has bad connectivity to the ISP that the game server companies uses.