low ping on speedtest, high ping in game

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Since a week ago my ping when playing rocket league on my laptop has been about 180 all of the time. Before this I was getting around 40 ping. My speedtest results always show consistent 20 ping.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/7343822006

I can't work out why my ping is so bad.

I have tested my connection on the xbox application as well and this shows a ping of 156ms with zero packet loss. Link below

https://snag.gy/6o2Jm3.jpg

I can't work out why my ping would vary so much between a speedtest and the xbox app running a test.

I am using a 4g data from my phone and I never had an issue in the past but suddenly I am getting high ping, only in games. No one else is using the network, and there are no other devices connected.

I have tried restarting my phone, restarting my laptop, uninstalling and re-installing rocket league but nothing works.

Any ideas? I really can't figure this out
 
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Its important to note that the connection between you and speedtest may be fine, its possible that there is a caching server that your speedtest client is talking to within your ISP and this is fine for the purposes of a speedtest between you and your ISP but it wont necessarily give you a reliable result when it comes to other services.

There is the speed of your connection measured in Mbit/s and then there is the speed of your packet round trip measured in ms. both can be effected by the number of people using 4G services delivered by the same tower. However, as soon as traffic leaves your ISP its at the whims of whatever peering arrangements exist between your ISP and the service you are trying to use. In addition to this, if the...
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Speedtest is not the greatest tool to check ping. Next time go to (PC>cmd>ping google.pl -t) or (Android>Any terminal app from store>ping google.pl).
4G Data is not most efficient way of serving ethernet. Check your ping with the method above. Keep in mind that many devices using 4G data might be connecting to same BTS tower as yours what results in overloading it ;D Try to check your pings while there are not too many users possibly using ethernet (early morning for example). You can try contacting your ISP and trying to solving your connection problem along with him but i dont think that will help ;)
 
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Its important to note that the connection between you and speedtest may be fine, its possible that there is a caching server that your speedtest client is talking to within your ISP and this is fine for the purposes of a speedtest between you and your ISP but it wont necessarily give you a reliable result when it comes to other services.

There is the speed of your connection measured in Mbit/s and then there is the speed of your packet round trip measured in ms. both can be effected by the number of people using 4G services delivered by the same tower. However, as soon as traffic leaves your ISP its at the whims of whatever peering arrangements exist between your ISP and the service you are trying to use. In addition to this, if the service you are using is busy the ping response will be lower, if there is a faulty network route on the way to it, your data may get routed over less efficient routes incurring a response time penalty.

I live in Australia on the west coast, we are connected internationally by a fiber cable that travels from our Coastline to Singapore. That cable has been damaged and its the only one that services that route. The end result is that because it is down traffic from West Australia has to now travel to the eastern states adding latency. It may go out on links that are already over-subscribed due to capacity limitations. The end result is that I usually get about 100ms-300ms to international services, I am currently getting 1,500-4,100ms. And its completely beyond my control or my ISP's.

Technically speaking as long as your response times to services within the ISP are good, and as long as their peering arrangements are met by their partners then there is little that is practically doable beyond changing ISP or selecting services in a different region.
 
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