High ping: Solution?

[Wayne]

Hi i have a 10MB internet and i'm suffering by a high ping.

I live in brazil, i know that's far, but i was getting 80ms ping on a canadian server.
BTW, i know i can lower the ping, but i just wanna find out how :X
I do not have anything downloading, but, when i play SA-Mp my ping is always above 230.

Any ideas? any tricks?

[stormeus]

I suppose if you have a router that supports it, you could change the QoS (Quality of Service) so SAMP packets take precedence over anything else.

[Wayne]

Yes, my router suports QoS... but, how do i change?

[stormeus]

Helpful for Netgear routers:
http://support.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/66/~/how-to-enable-quality-of-service-(qos)%3F

If you don't use a Netgear router, log into your router's control panel (usually at 192.168.1.1, 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.2.1). Find the area for Quality of Service, and set it so that either packets to/from 178.63.52.144 are highest, or packets to/from port 7777 are highest.

[Wayne]

I have a netgear route indeed, but, it doesnt has this option.

Instead it has an option called: IP QoS

Post Merge: July 25, 2011, 07:31:47 amFound something interessing also.




After rebooting my router, my ping got reduced from 250 to 200

[stormeus]

Destination IP: 178.63.52.144
Destination Ports: 7777-7777 for SAMP only
Traffic Priority: As high as it can go
Name it something like Argo SAMP.

Also, according to this, those two failures really aren't relevant.

[Wayne]

Tried it, no changes.

Seems like rebooting the router was the best option so far.

[9r2e5i3k]

Brazil to Canada is a shorter distance than Brazil to Europe. It's impossible to significantly improve your ping without you moving closer to the server I'd say...

[Max.]

Ive said this in soo many threads, the only ways to increase your ping (unless some program is slowing it) is to:
1 Move closer to your local exchage
2 Move closer to your ISP
3 Move closer the the Server

[Wayne]

My ISP server response is 6ms, which means i'm damn close of it.

I live in a big city, so, yes, i'm pretty close of stuff here.

uh-oh, i can't buy fly tickets to europe ):

[9r2e5i3k]

uh-oh, i can't buy fly tickets to europe ):

Swim on a raft   

[Wayne]

Swim on a raft   

nice idea
I've just built one, is it enough to reach europe?




BTW, back on topic, does anyone has any more tip?

[Antonio.]

230 ping is fine to play SA:MP on. Less people will be able to kill you.