[SOLVED] High Ping in all Online games despite having good ping on pingtest websites

retrop3

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Nov 25, 2013
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In every single online multiplayer game I attempt to play my ping is between 300-400 and has ping spikes to even higher ping. I checked my ping with a pingtest website and it is always around 30ms. I am not downloading anything, have even went as far as turning all my other devices off wifi and nothing seems to help. Anyone have any idea how to fix this or what could be happening? My internet in other facets seems to be fine, downloading things or uploading speeds are normal.
 
Solution
Go to the speedtest site and pick different cites both in your country and around the world. You will quickly see the farther from your city you choose the higher the ping/latency is.

In general the ping time is a measure of distance and the speed of light. The path the data takes is not always optimal but you really only have 1 option you send the data on the only cable you have you can not have any control over what pathing the data takes after that. The only way you might is to get another ISP and maybe they have better pathing. In many cases you can not do much about it. You play on servers from the USA when you live in Australia and you are going to get higher latency than say someone who lives in the UK.
Go to the speedtest site and pick different cites both in your country and around the world. You will quickly see the farther from your city you choose the higher the ping/latency is.

In general the ping time is a measure of distance and the speed of light. The path the data takes is not always optimal but you really only have 1 option you send the data on the only cable you have you can not have any control over what pathing the data takes after that. The only way you might is to get another ISP and maybe they have better pathing. In many cases you can not do much about it. You play on servers from the USA when you live in Australia and you are going to get higher latency than say someone who lives in the UK.
 
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