Kloofvreter
Honorary Master
This is a fairly dumb question to most, but I have never bothered to ask. Why is it possible to have a very bad (high) ping, yet a fast data transfer speed?
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You can have a highway or single lane road but the distance from Pretoria to Cape Town is still great...
You can have a fibre connection at home but your connection to that overseas server on Battlefield still has to travel a great distance and over many hops (servers/switches/routers). And each hop adds to the latency that you will experience.
Kloofvreter
Honorary Master
Now lets say for instance in both cases with the highway and single lane, is there anyway that one can lower the ping then?
Johnatan56
Honorary Master
You can have more lanes to reduce the traffic, but it will not get there faster by having more lanes. (breaking the speed limit is impossible
)To reduce the latency, you would need to take the most direct route (i.e. avoid extra hops), so avoiding the tolls by taking back routes would cause more hops. Taking the most direct route might cost more...
Generally business class internet connections get the most direct routes with lower latency but they cost a lot more.
Generally business class internet connections get the most direct routes with lower latency but they cost a lot more.