Latency In Games

Slixzy
Contributor II

My friend and I play the same game at the same time, and we only live 10 minutes from each other. Except he has the 500Mbps plan, while I have the gigabit fibe 1.5. Somehow he gets lower latency than me in an actual game. I like to play competitively and latency matters allot. I called tech support multiple times but they keep on telling me to do the basic stuff (un plug and plug it back in etc.) I was wondering if anyone could help me. I think its a routing issue. I have a better PC everything than my fiends PC, but still he somehow manages to get lower latency to the servers. What's the point of having fast internet when someone who has 1/3rd of your speeds still gets lower latency lol. Might be time to downgrade or change ISPs and hope I get better routing to the servers with them. 
For more Info, I'm playing on ethernet (cat 6e) cable and my motherboard is a Asus ROG Z390-F which is capable of 2.5g+ internet speeds.

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Welcome to the club, some of these replies are helpful so I suggest going through them. 

Sometimes it's a temporary issue. Trying pinging 1.1.1.1. It should show a consistently low ping time with no packet loss.

If it does, then there's nothing much you can do besides try again tomorrow to see if it improved. Sometimes a VPN can help with routing issues, but it has it's own drawbacks.

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dks
Community All-Star
Community All-Star

Thank you for your question. I played the Battlefield franchise myself for many years; 20, as I look back at the pile of titles I own. It's a good, fun game.

I am familiar with that message. I learned to ignore it. Because of the nature of the internet, Bell can't be responsible for internet routing beyond their own network. Depending on the location of the Battlefield server, your ping can be fast or not. Some servers run an auto-kick at a ping of 300ms or higher. As long as you stay under that ceiling, you can enjoy the game and have fun. And learn to snipe.   

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