3rd Party Ping Lowering Services

[Pringles]

Originally Posted by Farzo [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I know my brother in law in Hawaii used to arena in WoW with alot of aussies that used PAID services to lower their ping, however not sure it would work on p99, I think it's a service made for selected games.

http://www.lowerping.com

http://www.lowerping.com/about-lowerping.php

People actually pay for this?

[gildor]

Yes people pay for it, but it really is quite silly.

The "internet" as a whole (including the bajillion service providers who all share networks and utilize each other) works off of several different protocols...mpls, bgp, ospf etc.that is all designed to give you the shortest most efficient path from your a to your z location..

[Grimjaw]

It depends on alot of things. often time ISPs are known to have horrible routing. for example Telus could be routing your traffic from one end of the country and back, just to make it to the next state over. you can see your traffic flow by doing a few tracerts to the destination (server ip). if they take you on a horrible path you could bring it up to your ISP to have them look into it & optimize the route.