Originally posted by: hdeck
the only way you will improve you ping to servers in games like CS is if you get on better pipelines (ie connect through a T1 network or w/e, like a college dorm/apartment). you can have 50mb internet and your ping isn't going to improve much over 5mb internet.
and while we are on the subject, you aren't going to notice any difference in performance playing cs with 80 ping vs. 40 ping. if you think you are, you're just making excuses for why you are dying/not killing the opponent.
In FPS games, 80ms, 50ms and <30ms are all pretty major jumps. <30ms is approaching lan play. Although, you do have a bit of a point when talking about CS, mainly because Valve has always had some freaky ass network code, so hit boxes are more like games of dice.
It is also worth mentioning, latency is nothing without a ~0% packetloss ratio.