Gaming latency

[Nizaylin]

Hi I'm new here so I'm guessing nobody is going to answer me but I'm a gamer and I've been researching for a bit on how I can decrease my latency.
I have a friend from New zealand who upgraded to fibre internet and gets 55 ping in California, he uses an undersea cable that stretches roughly 13500 - 14000 km.
How is this possible and why are we still in the 150s lol
If anybody could tell me I'd appreciate.

 

[Barbarian Conan]

Hi I'm new here so I'm guessing nobody is going to answer me but I'm a gamer and I've been researching for a bit on how I can decrease my latency.
I have a friend from New zealand who upgraded to fibre internet and gets 55 ping in California, he uses an undersea cable that stretches roughly 13500 - 14000 km.
How is this possible and why are we still in the 150s lol
If anybody could tell me I'd appreciate.

Are you asking why the cable going directly from NZ to California has less latency than the one going around Africa, to the UK, then to the US, then over land through who knows how many hops before getting to California?

 

[Soul Assassin]

Because your friend is lying to you, Auckland to any of the coastal cities like Los Angeles or San Francisco is about 130ms but most West Coast game servers are usually hosted in Salt Lake City so that's 150ms.

 

[Nizaylin]

Because your friend is lying to you, Auckland to any of the coastal cities like Los Angeles or San Francisco is about 130ms but most West Coast game servers are usually hosted in Salt Lake City so that's 150ms.

well it can't be lies if i saw it myself lol and he isnt the only one who has this type of latency
to California don't mean to sound ignorant im just confused as to why even na has about 95ms to europe

 

[Mzezman]

Africa is HUGE....

 

[Nizaylin]

Are you asking why the cable going directly from NZ to California has less latency than the one going around Africa, to the UK, then to the US, then over land through who knows how many hops before getting to California?

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is there any possibility we could see a similar latency like NA to EU has?
or is 140 from Cpt to London the best we can do?

 

[Athos]

Latency isn't only affected by distance, there are many factors such as the number of routing devices along the path and network traffic, etc.

 

[Athos]

is there any possibility we could see a similar latency like NA to EU has?
or is 140 from Cpt to London the best we can do?

It is the best we are going to do for a while. You get services like ExitLag which attempts to optimise the path your traffic takes to the server you are connected to, to reduce your latency as far as possible.

 

[Nizaylin]

how much would this program reduce that 140ms by? roughly.

 

[Athos]

how much would this program reduce that 140ms by? roughly.

I have no idea, I don't live in Cape Town and I have never used the service. Ask your folks to let you try it for a month and let us know.

 

[CrypticZA]

is there any possibility we could see a similar latency like NA to EU has?
or is 140 from Cpt to London the best we can do?

CT best latency to London is 140ms, Singapore will net you around 110-120ms using SAFE cable which most ISP's don't have capacity on and then about 110ms to Brazil via SACS... (thanks for correction)

That 110ms to Brazil nets you about 205ms to New York but sadly thats the best we can get...

We sadly in the middle on no where and light can only move so fast

 

[PBCool]

is there any possibility we could see a similar latency like NA to EU has?
or is 140 from Cpt to London the best we can do?

That is the best we can do, physics.

 

[PBCool]

CT best latency to London is 140ms, Singapore will net you around 110-120ms using SAFE cable which most ISP's don't have capacity on and then about 110ms to Brazil via SAFE...

That 110ms to Brazil nets you about 205ms to New York but sadly thats the best we can get...

We sadly in the middle on no where and light can only move so fast

Brazil is SACS, not SAFE

 

[Herr der Verboten]

Hi I'm new here so I'm guessing nobody is going to answer me but I'm a gamer and I've been researching for a bit on how I can decrease my latency.
I have a friend from New zealand who upgraded to fibre internet and gets 55 ping in California, he uses an undersea cable that stretches roughly 13500 - 14000 km.
How is this possible and why are we still in the 150s lol
If anybody could tell me I'd appreciate.

anc? vote da next time.

 

[CrypticZA]

Brazil is SACS, not SAFE

Yea typo been a day and a half edited my post

 

[Nizaylin]

CT best latency to London is 140ms, Singapore will net you around 110-120ms using SAFE cable which most ISP's don't have capacity on and then about 110ms to Brazil via SACS... (thanks for correction)

That 110ms to Brazil nets you about 205ms to New York but sadly thats the best we can get...

We sadly in the middle on no where and light can only move so fast

Thanks for reply do you know of any isp that has capacity to SG or Brazil like you say?

 

[Pineapple Smurf]

Make sure your cables are neat to avoid any throttling and you will notice a good speed increase

 

[CrypticZA]

Thanks for reply do you know of any isp that has capacity to SG or Brazil like you say?

There are a few but with very limited access, so you will only connect to direct hosts with that latency and not hosts like Google/Amazon/Microsoft and a bunch of other hosts that are picked up locally.

Exitlag does have these routes though and is picked up locally so the only real solution if its gaming traffic i could recommend is that programme since our ISP's aren't very gaming friendly and you will just have so many routing problems.

Exitlag is only R70 per month if you pay monthly and its cheaper if you buy in advance.

 

[Nizaylin]

There are a few but with very limited access, so you will only connect to direct hosts with that latency and not hosts like Google/Amazon/Microsoft and a bunch of other hosts that are picked up locally.

Exitlag does have these routes though and is picked up locally so the only real solution if its gaming traffic i could recommend is that programme since our ISP's aren't very gaming friendly and you will just have so many routing problems.

Exitlag is only R70 per month if you pay monthly and its cheaper if you buy in advance

Ok I will check this program out thanks for the info!

 

[PBCool]

Yea typo been a day and a half edited my post

I figured