how to lower the ping from Europe

[RaMaR]

Hello forum/devs,
the discrepancy between US and Europe ping is quite noticeable, the former around 40ms and the latter 140ms.
Is there any way to lower the European latency? :)
I'm posting a tracert from Italy:

$me> tracert www.project1999.com

Tracing route to www.project1999.com [144.121.19.170]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.0.1
2 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms modemtim.homenet.telecomitalia.it [192.168.1.1]
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 10 ms 9 ms 8 ms 172.17.232.192
5 11 ms 13 ms 8 ms 172.17.232.206
6 18 ms 17 ms 17 ms 172.19.243.45
7 22 ms 18 ms 18 ms etrunk47.milano1.mil.seabone.net [195.22.196.70]
8 17 ms 17 ms 17 ms ae11.milano58.mil.seabone.net [195.22.208.79]
9 * * * Request timed out.
10 118 ms 118 ms 117 ms ae-2-52.edge2.Newark1.Level3.net [4.69.156.41]
11 118 ms 117 ms 118 ms ae-2-52.edge2.Newark1.Level3.net [4.69.156.41]
12 119 ms 118 ms 119 ms 4.30.132.254
13 130 ms 134 ms 130 ms ae3-nycmny83jp1.lightower.net [144.121.35.38]
14 121 ms 119 ms 120 ms ae8-whplnywpj91.lightower.net [104.207.214.143]
15 129 ms 129 ms 132 ms ae10-prvdrinwj41.lightower.net [104.207.214.88]
16 129 ms 130 ms 129 ms ae0-brtnmas6j81.lightower.net [65.254.31.58]
17 127 ms 125 ms 126 ms 144.121.7.234.lightower.net [144.121.7.234]
18 125 ms 124 ms 124 ms 144.121.19.170.lightower.net [144.121.19.170]

Trace complete.

[Baler]

Move to America., or Canada :)

Could also try contacting your ISP about bad hops. just a thought.
But your traceroute looks about as good as you'll get from Italy.

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Alternatively you could convince everyone on earth to upgrade to high speed fiber internet. Then a better netcode could be used/developed for low latency across the world.
But don't expect that to happen as we've been using the same netcode for like.. 20 years now.
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And inb4 someone suggest a vpn/proxy game service. Which will only help if the route to the service and then the route to the server is faster than your route to the server.

[Argh]

You could move closer to NJ.

[Girthro]

Read the title and got excited. Back to flaccid now though :(