How can I change my network route?

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Hello, I usually play MTA:SA in a european server, but since one week ago my ping is crazy, normaly it's 260~300, but now it's 350~500, that makes the game unplayable (because some arenas have ping limit), that problem already happend like 5 times and it fixes by itself but take a long time to, so I think it's a trace route problem, running tracert ffsgaming.net I get this output:
http://pastebin.com/XidqVkN5

And I've got the tracert from a friend of mine using another ISP provider, and I can see that his connection to the server has way less steps than mine:
http://pastebin.com/UZsCJj3n

Also, my ping to Americans [South and North] are ok, it's only bugged to europeans servers. So I was wondering if I couldn't manage to change my trace route to europeans server?

Btw, I'm from south of Brazil
 
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If you dig long enough you can find lots of interesting things about how your ISP connects to the world. Things like lookingglass sites and sites like fixedorbit.com can give you lots of interesting facts. Now this does not really help you a lot, first you cannot do much other than change ISP in some cases. Even if you find a huge issue you will never get to a tech in these companies that understands what you are talking about.

So without spending a lot of time I can tell the trace you have a issue with follows the more common route for brazil to eroupe traffic. It all goes to miami first. It is at this point I suspect your ISP may have a issue. In hops 8 I suspect because of the name this is a miami based router and the...
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There is no way you can control this. It is up to the various ISPs around the world to negotiate how they will route traffic through and around their networks.

Your best bet to avoid this problem is to try finding a closer server.
 
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If you dig long enough you can find lots of interesting things about how your ISP connects to the world. Things like lookingglass sites and sites like fixedorbit.com can give you lots of interesting facts. Now this does not really help you a lot, first you cannot do much other than change ISP in some cases. Even if you find a huge issue you will never get to a tech in these companies that understands what you are talking about.

So without spending a lot of time I can tell the trace you have a issue with follows the more common route for brazil to eroupe traffic. It all goes to miami first. It is at this point I suspect your ISP may have a issue. In hops 8 I suspect because of the name this is a miami based router and the ping times are a little high but ok. Then hop 9 goes up 100 more ms but I suspect this is also miami which is very strange. Then you eventually end up in germany but without lots of digging I can't say which hop is which but it does appear to go though london which is very common for americas to europe traffic. The problem I suspect is between telmar and whoever cprm is. There appears to be a issue in the peering point in miami. SO now what can we do...its not like you have any way to call up either of these ISP and get it fixed even if this is the problem.

The other trace I am betting is using the undersea fiber from brazil to Portugal. This is the optimum path for traffic from brazil to europe but all ISP do not have the ability to use this path. From what I have been told they are going to eventually lay another fiber but for now it is impossible for anyone to buy new service over this path. It is strange in a way for internet to even use it. Since private corporate networks are willing to pay more most vendors that own rights to use that path will sell to them before they sell to another ISP.

From this trace I would try to get your internet service from GVT or buy from a ISP who uses GVT as their upstream provider. From the second trace it appear GVT is peering with global crossing (which is actually level 3 now) and they own most the fiber in the world.
 
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Oh that explain why players using GVT never have high ping, while other players using Oi, NET, and other shits have high ping sometimes. Are people from Chile also using undersea fiber cable too? Because it's disgusting for me see a player from Chile (that's even far away from Germany than me) with 230 ping while I have 260 minimum :/

Well, I've already tried to get GVT, but it doesn't work in my city, but does a city 40km far away of mine, so unlucky, right? :(

By the way, my ISP is Oi, why doesn't it use that undersea cable? Or will it use that cable someday?
 
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None of these companies is going to tell you very much at all about how their network works or what their plans are. You have to really dig around on various vendors sites. The fiber paths are pretty easy to get but finding out which companies have the rights to use them is almost impossible. On top of this when you talk internet rather than a private network there are all kinds of strange agreement between providers related to how traffic will flow between them and things like which cites the traffic will go between them in.

Like I mentioned most ISP have something called lookingglass that if you understand BGP routing you can figure out how parts of the internet are put together.

Chile is a strange exception. A lot of traffic from chile goes west to singapore to get to europe. They also tend to get to US sites via southern california rather than miami. BUT some traffic seems to go to argentina and then to miami.

The only way I have seen to get around issues like to force your traffic though a hosting center. Many already offer VPN services but if you have the money you can place your own VPN router at the site. You would just have to find one that has the right combination of ISP.
 
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