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Hello! I am looking to upgrade my network to suit my gaming. I play a lot of Overwatch and my ping is consistently 65-80. A lot of people i play with stay 25-30. I have Spectrum and am just using their regular Arris gateway. I also am using my motherboards ethernet plug. I dont know a whole lot about networking so searching for this is pretty confusing. Im willing to buy a separate router and modem and an ethernet card for my pc if needed. Ive read about the Killer ethernet cards but people say the very slight performance increase isnt worth the $. Any help would be great!
 
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As expected there is no issue here.

You have good latency to your ISP everything else is in the path to the server. You can do nothing to affect the path.

Just guessing it goes to tampa then to houston and enters blizzards network at that point. They eventually get to california.

68ms is not all that bad from flordia to california. There is some strange spikes in the delay but it is all in blizzards network. Not like you can call them up and tell them to fix it.

You have few options that is about the delay you will see listed if you look up what average ping times are from Florida to California.
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Well upgrading your hardware generally isn't going to help your ping. Are you using a wired connection or wireless?

Your ping is determined by your distance to the overwtach server you are playing on, so if you are on the east coast US for example your ping wont be that great if you are playing on a server located on the west coast. Also your interface be it cable, fiber, DSL, etc.

So to sum it up if you want better pings you will likely need to, play on a server closer to you or upgrade your internet to say cable if you are on DSL which may require a different ISP, not sure what specturm provides.
 
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You can do very little to reduce your ping time it is related to distance. You can make it worse by over using your internet connection but if your internet is not over used you have as good as you can get.

Killer ethernet cards are mostly marketing hype. They can do absolutely nothing to affect traffic outside the machine or in the internet. Sure they might reduce the traffic inside the machine but it at most is a extremely tiny fraction of 1ms.....you can't even measure it the number is so small. Not even sure what they claim is true, mostly it allows you to do stupid stuff like play games and run bit torrent at the same time. There are so many strange issues with the killer drivers it is not worth the risk
 
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Hmmm well with Overwatch you cant choose any servers other than NA, UK or Pacific. Ive used both wired and wireless connections and they both stay the same ping. I was under the impression using a routers QoS feature i could prioritize OW oover other things, which i cannot do now. That wouldnt help any?
 
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bill001g

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Prioritize it over what?

Are you competing for bandwidth with other users in your house. QoS does nothing unless you have over used your bandwidth. That problem is more that just technical since you must get agreements that your game traffic is more important that what they are doing.

You need a special feature in your router to really set QoS up well. It tends to be easier to yell down the hall get off the internet I am playing my games. That is what you will more or less do with QoS.
 
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Ratherbedrifting

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Haha yes i have 2 other people at my house that use the internet as well. Im on a wired connection while they are on wifi. I mean, 60-70 ping isnt horrible in OW, but im getting tired of being shot behind walls and while using abilities i shouldnt die while using
 
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I honestly dont think its the cause. My internet is like 130mb/s down and 10-11mb/s up. But i have a friend in Philly who constantly has 20-30 ping. I lived in SC for years and had the same ping i do now. It causes just enough lag to be annoying while gaming.
 
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bill001g

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You can run tracert to the servers to see the path. In almost all cases it is distance and the connections between ISP do not always make the best sense. It is not unusual to see 40-60ms from cities on the east coast to cities on the west coast.

Unless you see say 40ms of extra latency in hop 1 or hop 2 there is little you can do. In most cases you see less than 1ms to hop 1 (ie your router in your house) and generally less than 10ms to hop 2 which is the first ISP router which tends to be in the city near you.

Now if your latency is lower late at night then you might say you have neighbors competing for bandwidth cause the delays but even if that was the case the ISP is highly unlikely to even admit there is a issue much less fix it. This would mostly be in hop 2.

 
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Ratherbedrifting

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Heres the Tracer

Tracing route to 24.105.41.53 over a maximum of 30 hops

1 6 ms 2 ms 1 ms 192.168.0.1
2 13 ms 12 ms 11 ms 10.196.48.1
3 15 ms 12 ms 12 ms 72-31-218-232.net.bhntampa.com [72.31.218.232]
4 18 ms 16 ms 14 ms ten0-6-0-7.orld11-car1.bhn.net [72.31.195.210]
5 19 ms 19 ms 17 ms 72-31-220-174.net.bhntampa.com [72.31.220.174]
6 34 ms 22 ms 22 ms hun0-1-0-1.tamp20-car1.bhn.net [71.44.1.208]
7 25 ms 19 ms 19 ms hun0-2-0-7.tamp20-cbr1.bhn.net [72.31.3.114]
8 22 ms 24 ms 22 ms 10.bu-ether15.tamsflde20w-bcr00.tbone.rr.com [66.109.6.96]
9 42 ms 47 ms 47 ms bu-ether17.hstqtx0209w-bcr00.tbone.rr.com [66.109.1.70]
10 48 ms 47 ms 49 ms 107.14.19.49
11 41 ms 44 ms 42 ms 107.14.17.135
12 62 ms 44 ms 42 ms 66.109.9.151
13 42 ms 41 ms 42 ms ae10-br01-eqda6.blizzardonline.net [137.221.74.40]
14 * * * Request timed out.
15 64 ms 63 ms 67 ms be1-pe02-eqch2.blizzardonline.net [137.221.69.69]
16 * * * Request timed out.
17 66 ms 69 ms 151 ms 24.105.62.151
18 80 ms 68 ms 75 ms 24.105.41.53

Trace complete.
 
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bill001g

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As expected there is no issue here.

You have good latency to your ISP everything else is in the path to the server. You can do nothing to affect the path.

Just guessing it goes to tampa then to houston and enters blizzards network at that point. They eventually get to california.

68ms is not all that bad from flordia to california. There is some strange spikes in the delay but it is all in blizzards network. Not like you can call them up and tell them to fix it.

You have few options that is about the delay you will see listed if you look up what average ping times are from Florida to California.
 
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