Lower Latency Options?

Well from other Server overseas I get avg 20kbps and that still does not explain the ping
 
Ive hear that guys with 64kb leased lines can get 180ms .. But those lines cost like R5000 per month. Cant we proxy through them or something.
 
Looking at our pings means that we should be downloading at 2kbps but we don't. This is obviously cause its shaped
 
Remember that ICMP is a low priority protocol and gets shoved to the bottom of the queue.
 
Ping time has little to do with download speed. There can be and usually are multiple packets in flight at the same time. You can read up in a book on TCP/IP about sliding windows etc. if you want the nasty technical details.

On that server on diginet I get:
Pinging eve-online.com [213.167.138.92] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 213.167.138.92: bytes=32 time=393ms TTL=116
Reply from 213.167.138.92: bytes=32 time=410ms TTL=116
Reply from 213.167.138.92: bytes=32 time=396ms TTL=116
Reply from 213.167.138.92: bytes=32 time=390ms TTL=116

Ping statistics for 213.167.138.92:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 390ms, Maximum = 410ms, Average = 397ms

This is probably the lowest you will get with any connection from South Africa to that server, except if you are physically sitting on the backbone. BTW, as far as I know that server in in Iceland, and a traceroute from my side says I am connecting via New York.

Note, 500ms is completely fine for playing Eve. Things does not happen fast in Eve. :) You will probably only pick up problems if your ping goes into the thousands.
 
Yeah I noticed Eve I have no Problem not bad.. But the reason Im looking for answers here is cause I just purchased Joint Operations - Typhoon Rising and they have two ZA Servers on them but there is noone on them. And on the UK servers there are like 50 to a 100 people playing but the lag is terrible.
I wish I can find a way.
 
Well the speed WoW players get through my socks server is approx 700ms. I can ping uunet servers at a constant 280ms, although any saix server seems to be in the 500 range!
 
Host Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev
1. 196.30.191.193 0.0% 7 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.4 0.0
2. 196.7.18.209 0.0% 7 0.4 0.6 0.4 0.8 0.2
3. vlan513.hr1.cpt1.alter.net 0.0% 7 0.3 0.5 0.3 1.6 0.5
4. fe11-0-0.gw2.cpt1.alter.net 0.0% 7 0.6 0.8 0.6 1.5 0.3
5. srp5-0-0.cr2.jnb6.alter.net 0.0% 6 26.6 26.4 26.1 26.7 0.3
6. Serial5-0-1.GW3.LND10.Alter.NET 0.0% 6 256.5 256.7 255.5 257.5 0.7
7. ge5-0.cr1.lnd10.gbb.uk.uu.net 0.0% 6 256.1 257.0 255.9 259.7 1.4
8. sc-7-0-0.xr1.LND9.ALTER.net 0.0% 6 256.9 256.7 255.5 258.0 0.8
9. 0.so-0-1-0.TR2.LND9.ALTER.NET 0.0% 6 256.3 256.5 256.2 256.9 0.2
10. ???
11. 146.188.69.102 0.0% 6 250.1 250.7 250.1 251.4 0.5
12. linx-gw13.LON.GB.net.DTAG.DE 0.0% 6 253.3 254.1 252.1 258.9 2.4
13. 62.153.203.190 0.0% 6 250.0 250.5 249.7 251.4 0.7
14. 157.157.55.226 0.0% 6 290.1 290.9 290.0 292.6 0.9
15. 157.157.55.226 0.0% 6 290.2 290.3 289.7 290.7 0.3
16. ipnet-muli-gw.isholf.is 0.0% 6 290.8 290.0 289.3 290.8 0.5
17. 213.167.138.92 0.0% 6 288.7 289.7 288.4 291.0 1.0


Funny thats what I get on my vpn ;-)

It reads, 290ms
 
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