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Hi there

I'm an active gamer and for some reason a number of servers are pinging at around the 100-110 ping mark, where normally they'd be like 20-30.

Here's an example of one of the trace routes I've done.

tracert 188.165.225.144

Tracing route to ks312869.kimsufi.com [188.165.225.144]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 8 ms 6 ms 7 ms cpc2-ware5-2-0-gw.9-1.cable.virginmedia.com [82.
1.196.1]
3 66 ms 7 ms 7 ms lutn-core-2a-ae5-1226.network.virginmedia.net [8
0.4.221.1]
4 7 ms 7 ms 8 ms popl-bb-1c-ae2-0.network.virginmedia.net [62.253
.174.1]
5 8 ms 7 ms 7 ms popl-bb-1b-ae13-0.network.virginmedia.net [213.1
05.159.189]
6 7 ms 7 ms 7 ms tele-ic-5-ae0-0.network.virginmedia.net [213.105
.159.117]
7 * * * Request timed out.
8 91 ms * 91 ms nwk-2-6k.nj.us [178.32.135.232]
9 462 ms 222 ms * ldn-5-6.uk.eu [178.32.135.231]
10 95 ms 94 ms 95 ms rbx-g2-a9.fr.eu [91.121.131.177]
11 96 ms 93 ms 95 ms vss-3-6k.fr.eu [213.251.130.77]
12 95 ms 95 ms 95 ms ks312869.kimsufi.com [188.165.225.144]

that IP belongs to a match server I normally use, everyone else's ping is fine, and the traceroute seems to show that it bounces from the UK to America?! (nj.us must mean new jersey?) and then back to uk, then france :| very odd

To show that it's not an issue for all servers I use, here's a traceroute to a UK server that I use.

tracert 193.33.187.131

Tracing route to 193.33.187.131 over a maximum of 30 hops

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 7 ms 7 ms 7 ms cpc2-ware5-2-0-gw.9-1.cable.virginmedia.com [82.
1.196.1]
3 11 ms 10 ms 11 ms lutn-core-2b-ae5-1226.network.virginmedia.net [8
0.4.221.129]
4 31 ms 8 ms 7 ms nrth-bb-1b-ae9-0.network.virginmedia.net [62.253
.174.5]
5 8 ms 7 ms 7 ms popl-bb-1a-as3-0.network.virginmedia.net [213.10
5.172.14]
6 8 ms 7 ms 7 ms popl-bb-1b-ae0-0.network.virginmedia.net [213.10
5.174.230]
7 9 ms 7 ms 7 ms tele-ic-5-ae0-0.network.virginmedia.net [213.105
.159.117]
8 10 ms 7 ms 11 ms 62.253.174.70
9 15 ms 12 ms 14 ms racksrv-162.gw.goscomb.net [46.17.60.162]
10 10 ms 11 ms 11 ms 193.33.187.131

Trace complete.

If you need more details from me please ask.

Regards