Western Cape gamers and ping

[Dmitrimm]

A friend has been hosting direct IP games on his machine in Cape Town. I'm in an outlying area in the Cape 100km from his location.

Is it normal for Telkom to route CT connections to a server in Johannesburg (45ms) and then back down to the Cape (another 45ms) - resulting in a 90+ ping?

Borderline unplayable.

 

[Gambit]

perhaps your friend is on IS and you are on SAIX or vice versa. causing traffic to go via the ISP peering point in joburg.

 

[Dmitrimm]

He's on SAIX. We've tried tracerts with IS and SAIX accounts, no difference. Problem is clearly traffic being routed via a server in Pretoria.

Surely our traffic should go via a machine closest to us?