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Hi everyone.

I have to do work off a US server and lately my connection & ping has been bad.This is negatively impacting my work calls.

My isp is giving me 240ms to US server.Is it possible to get less.I heard CISP has some of the lowest pings for overseas.
Kindly asking for assistance with whether I can get lower ping locally (Pretoria based) ? Thanks
 
To give you a breakdown of how this would look on Cool Ideas' network:

You're looking at 3-4ms from Pretoria to JHB (if connected via LAN cable) + 16-17ms from JHB to Cape Town + 140ms from Cape Town to London via undersea cable + 70ms from London to New York via undersea cable.

This is also the shortest route I know of. So just above 230ms in the best case scenario, this might fluctuate a bit higher (like +5ms) depending on the situation with Google's Equiano cable, which has had some issues, and also various other factors like which route the provider takes.

So 10ms lower is about the best you can physically get to New York unfortunately, simply because of the distance between SA and the US and light only travels at a fixed speed.
 
Hi everyone.

I have to do work off a US server and lately my connection & ping has been bad.This is negatively impacting my work calls.

My isp is giving me 240ms to US server.Is it possible to get less.I heard CISP has some of the lowest pings for overseas.
Kindly asking for assistance with whether I can get lower ping locally (Pretoria based) ? Thanks
Hi there, are you able to Provide a destination IP for me to traceroute to? (If you don't want to publicly share, please PM me instead)
This would be the best way for me to advise on what pings you can expect with us. :)
 
Hi everyone.

I have to do work off a US server and lately my connection & ping has been bad.This is negatively impacting my work calls.

My isp is giving me 240ms to US server.Is it possible to get less.I heard CISP has some of the lowest pings for overseas.
Kindly asking for assistance with whether I can get lower ping locally (Pretoria based) ? Thanks

Thats a decent ping I doubt you will get much faster.
What issues are you experiencing?
 
Hi everyone.

I have to do work off a US server and lately my connection & ping has been bad.This is negatively impacting my work calls.

My isp is giving me 240ms to US server.Is it possible to get less.I heard CISP has some of the lowest pings for overseas.
Kindly asking for assistance with whether I can get lower ping locally (Pretoria based) ? Thanks

Ping seems good.

You can use Pingplotter to have a look at where it might be dropping out along the way.
 
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