Forcing my Modem to connect to a different ISP Server?

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Yousef Abu Ghaidah

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Hi.

I'm not super advanced in networking. If anything I'd consider myself "Below average." I know the typical port forwarding and I tinker with my router frequently, but I don't know the technicalities of routing (i.e. VLANs, Static Routing, etc.)

So onto my question

The Problem

The issue is this. I game a lot, and there is a server that is located in another country that is near to mine. All my friends have 20ms on that server. I have 150.

I performed a tracert to that server to witness how my internet traffic is being routed. It seems that once it leaves the gateway, it routes to a server under my ISP. But my friends (all of them, even one that lives right next to me) connects to another server, and I am convinced it is that server that will allow me to get better ping.

I will try and illustrate the tracert:

My Tracert

Hop 1 - Gateway IP
Hop 2 - ISP Server 1 (the laggy server)
Hop 3 - 6 - other IPs
Hop 7 - Server IP (Where I get 150ms)

My friend's Tracert

Hop 1 - Gateway IP
Hop 2 - ISP Server 2 (the non-laggy server)
Hop 3-6 - other IPs
Hop 7 - Gaming Server IP (Where he gets 20ms)

My question is, is there any way I can force my modem to connect to the non-laggy server (ISP Server 2)?

I tried contacting my ISP many, many times. They brought over 3 technicians over the course of 5 months, who all just give me some BS excuse and leave, despite me telling me "Just route me to that server." They aren't even technical -.-.

Thank you.
 
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They likely laugh at you when you think THEY are non technical and you tell them to "just route me to that server". Those are not servers in the first place they are some form of router. The second hop represents the connection between your house and the ISP. It not like they can just change some software setting this represents some physical connection between you and the ISP. Sure they could come dig up the street and run you a special fiber directly to their office that follows the most direct path....for free I suppose.

It could I suppose be some kind of error in the connection but you say they have checked it multiple times. If the latency varies based on time of day it can be as simple as they have oversold the...
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bill001g

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They likely laugh at you when you think THEY are non technical and you tell them to "just route me to that server". Those are not servers in the first place they are some form of router. The second hop represents the connection between your house and the ISP. It not like they can just change some software setting this represents some physical connection between you and the ISP. Sure they could come dig up the street and run you a special fiber directly to their office that follows the most direct path....for free I suppose.

It could I suppose be some kind of error in the connection but you say they have checked it multiple times. If the latency varies based on time of day it can be as simple as they have oversold the connection in your neighborhood and all you neighbors are competing with you for the total bandwidth coming into the area. Depends on the ISP some fix capacity issues and others just keep collecting the money. If the latency is fixed and high it almost always represents distance.

The only way you can possibly change the path outside your house is to use a different ISP.
 
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