How to decrease my PING?

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DyLemma

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I have Comcast XFINITY Internet. My speeds are about 29 Download and 5.5 Upload Speed, ping is about 35 or more at times. Is there a way i could get them to decrease my ping? Or is the only way for me to switch to fiber internet? What would my ping likely be to a local server 50 miles from me if i had fiber? Like i said mines usually always 35+ and i play Call of Duty and ping is what matters when you play online. Wondering what i could do to decrease ping
 
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Is there a way i could get them to decrease my ping?
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Move closer to the server.

Ping, once it is outboard of the router in your home, depends completely on other peoples boxes/servers.
Fiber, cable, whatever....doubtful you'd see any real difference talking to a specified server. Once it leaves your house, it pretty much runs on the same lines.

But...if you personally can get fiber at your location (where is this?) then do so.
 
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Your ping all depends on where you live in relation to your ip's main server or any server that you are pinging. the farther away the slower the ping. The ping you see on a speed test is 35 but that is connecting to your IP's server or the server you selected. There is a complete difference, just because you have a 35 ping to your comcast server in your remote area does not mean it will be the same as the ping to the Call of Duty server. The server you connect to while playing COD is a completely different server which means the ping could be slower or faster depending on the location of the server. So thats why some games have west us servers or east us servers, to provide the fastest connection.
Hope that helps
 
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So I just ran several tests at Speedtest.net to see different ping times. All within a 5 minute timespan.

150 miles - 22ms (Virginia to Virginia)
1500 miles - 80ms (Virginia to Kansas)
3000 miles - 109ms (Virginia to Los Angeles)

Saying "my ping is about 35 or more" is a useless measurement, unless you know 'where' you are connecting to.
 
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I told you i was connecting to a server 35 miles away. I hate when people say you can't decrease it but how come others connections have better pings at the same miles from the server? Doesn't make sense
 
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Even the distance to the server means very little. One extreme example we have a temporary VPN between Argentina and Brazil over the internet. Before they moved offices the ping times were about 90ms on a private network that sorta went directly...it goes via a fiber up the coast.

We purchased the internet from telmex in one and telefonica in the other. You would think since these are very large ISP we should get pretty good connection times. Comes to find out the only place they connect is in miami so its is over 400ms ping time. The fiber runs from argentia right past where we need to go and then has to come all the way back. Since we are a large customer we likely could get them to re-enginer it for us but even then they say it will take more than 90 days and we will have a new private line by then.

The Internet is a very strange thing. You could have a server located in the same city and the traffic may go all the way to another city for some and go directly for others. You can find all this out if you dig long enough though the ISP routers when they let you but you can still not actually change it...only understand why it is so long.

 
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