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khubani

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Hi, I play League of Legends often and I connect to the North American servers, and I find that my ping ranges from 80 - 120 on average every day. I am currently living in USA, NY and I believe the server is in California. I have a direct connection to my modem at the moment with Optimum Online with a 15 down/2 up connection and no firewalls or anti-viruses that are installed on my PC.

Would there be a way to lower my ping? The representative on the phone from my ISP said that increasing my service package to 50 down/8 up would significantly reduce my ping but I do not believe that because I highly doubt internet speed has that much to do with ping over connectivity from one server to another.

I have used Leatrix Latency Fix to resolve my issue but it has not worked, and I have never used a proxy before because I do not have any working knowledge of it. I don't use YouTube or intensive VoIP, stream or download when gaming. I do normally run through a router, but for the sake of testing, I am hardwired into my modem. Any suggestions? Thanks
 
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Basically think of connecting to the Internet servers in different states like actually driving from your house to that server location. There will be delays on some roads (trying to get over the George Washington Bridge for example) as compared to some other roads you fly on (Interstate 80). Everytime your reach a high metro-area you need to change 'highways' which adds to the delays. That is how the Internet and a 'ping' is, the ping is how long it takes to 'drive' from your computer to the distant point AND BACK. So your ping may be 40-50 TO it, but round trip is 80-100.

The first tests locally are to use a second device on your connection (say a friend's laptop) and see what happens when they try the game, or ping the server. If...
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A faster connection through your ISP won't do much, if anything.

A VPN tunnel could help a bit, but you'd likely have to pay for a good one.

You said you're already changed your TCPAckFrequency.

Unless the infrastructure is upgraded, your ping NY -> CA will remain in that range.

 
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Rune Olsen

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What NIC does your motherboard have? By that i mean controller. I always swear to Intel. Except from that the ping you get will be controlled by ISP infrastructure, as mentioned before nics and dslams, hop counts and so on
 
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khubani

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I have tried that for other games and haven't received desirable results - can anyone else say that this works well?

@Rune Olsen: Realtek PCI GBE Family Controller (I have a very old system)
 
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Basically think of connecting to the Internet servers in different states like actually driving from your house to that server location. There will be delays on some roads (trying to get over the George Washington Bridge for example) as compared to some other roads you fly on (Interstate 80). Everytime your reach a high metro-area you need to change 'highways' which adds to the delays. That is how the Internet and a 'ping' is, the ping is how long it takes to 'drive' from your computer to the distant point AND BACK. So your ping may be 40-50 TO it, but round trip is 80-100.

The first tests locally are to use a second device on your connection (say a friend's laptop) and see what happens when they try the game, or ping the server. If they get different results then it maybe a issue isolated to your computer. If they get the same results, take the router out of the equation and just try hardline through modem. Does it change anything? If not, then locally, there isn't anything else you can do except change service providers or look to business class connections.

Business class they make straight shots as possible between points A & B, because Visa isn't located in every state, thier servers are still in the same place they always been, but a transaction in Florida, New York or California all need to be instant (low ping). So they pay serious money to install POINT 2 POINT (P2P) connections between key points to reduce the 'lag' or response time.
 
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I appreciate the explanation but what are you suggesting as a resolution to my problem?
 
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