Question about UT servers

[TomC25]

How come I can get a ping around 40-90 on a server (Cincy RR Deathmatch), and a friend who lives about 20 minutes away always gets 150-200 ping?

He has Zoomtown DSL and I have Time Warner Road Runner.

There is a server (Pluribus - now gone ) where our pings are opposite - he gets below 100 and I am always above 150?

We live so close so why the difference in pings?

 

[Doggiedog]

If you look at Cincy RR you'll notice RR stands for Road Runner. So essentially you may be playing on a LAN and you may not be leaving the network thus you get a better ping than your friend who is outside the network.

With Pluribus, he may be getting a better ping than you because he may be closer.

BTW: I've played on Cincy RR DM too. What's your handle? I am on TW RR in NJ and I get pings in the 40-80s as well.

 

[vash]

Its all about your ISP.

Your ISP's routing, infrastructure and backbone makes all the difference -- especially with cable. My brother and I live about 2.5 miles from each other. He is on Pacbell backbone, and I am on Verizon's backbone. He regularly gets pings about 10ms lower than me because of Pacbell's backbone. However, on some servers, he doesn't get his 10ms ping advantage and I get it instead.

vash

 

[TomC25]

Doggiedog

Thanks, I figured it would have to be that the server and I use the same ISP.

I use the name |exe|killahurtz and my friend uses |exe|Worm

What is your name so I can look for you?

 

[Doggiedog]

I'm Nacho_killa and I'm usually on a server called [CSHP] The Cave of the Phoenix.

I've been on Cincy but that server usually has the standard maps doesn't it? I like this new server because there are alot of custom map and the players there are very very good. I used to win in DM all the time but I'm only about 1 in 20 on this server.