Online Gaming Latency

[TylerRobbins]

Hello all,

I live in New Brunswick (Carlingford to be exact) and do a lot of extremely competitive online gaming for large amounts of money in competitive play. Most recently the game I play is NHL 24.

When I connect to the "East" server, I run at 56-60 ping. 

When I connect to "NA-Northeast" server (Montreal) I get 45 ping.

And when I connect to "NA-Central" I am hovering around 65-70 ping.

A person who lives further East in the province then me has the competitors Internet and is easily 20-25 ping less than me. 

Is this a routing problem? Is Rogers this much slower than the competition? 

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated. 

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[Gdkitty]

Routing, yes in general.  Its the path it has to take to get from A to B.
It all depends on where the end server is located, and the route it takes to get there.
Sometimes this route can be changed? But not always.  Sometimes for that provider, that may be the best route.
Another provider, may be better, as it might have less hops, as that end server may be more on the same backbone as your provider, vs another it is not.

And routing, etc, doesnt always work the way we think it does as well.  Things are not always 'linear'.
IE:  Speed tests.  using something like speedtest.net, usually finds you the CLOSEST test point.  But this test point might be on another provider, even though close.  Flipping to another close one can give very different results..
But take my house for instance.   I am about 1hr north of Toronto.
Usually it takes me to a speed test location, about 1/2 way between me and toronto.  
If it change that end test location to toronto, further away, I get better speed, ping, etc.
WHY likely?  My town likely routes directly down to toronto.  to test to that local closer one, its probably going longer, down to toronto and back up to the test location.