High ping in games

[LordOfWinterfell]

So i have been dealing with High ping in games and slow video loading on YouTube(not all the time), am pretty confused and i dunno know what should i do; I can't complain to my ISP when my speeds are fine. 

 

[LordOfWinterfell]

3 minutes ago, Lord Vile said:

Depends where the servers are etc. The connection is only as fast as the slowest link and just because you have 2ms to the closest exchange doesn’t mean that exchange has a fast connection to the server you’re trying to access. 

The servers are located in Germany.

[LordOfWinterfell]

1 minute ago, Lord Vile said:

Yeah but it depends on how everything’s connected. For example if I connect to a server in America through entirely fibre op and state of the art networking equipment it will be faster than connecting to a server  in Scotland through Coaxial even though I’m connected to the same exchange for both. If at some point between you and the server the connection is slow your ping will tank. 

So, this issue is clearly out of hands?
 

[Eigenvektor]

Just now, LordOfWinterfell said:

So, this issue is clearly out of hands?

Pretty much, yes. The speed of your connection has pretty much zero influence on ping.

 

Ping is primarily about physical distance between you and the server (and the number of hops packets have to go through). It gives you a measure of how long it takes a packet to go to the other end and come back, not how much data it can carry. You can't really change anything about that, since you can't decide on the route a packet takes.

[LordOfWinterfell]

5 minutes ago, Lord Vile said:

You have a great connection to the exchange so I don’t really think there is. What NAT type have you got? Also which game is it after a few years I wouldn’t be surprised if they cut back on server locations 

I dunno what's my NAT type. The game in the previous screenshot is BATTLEFIELD 1, which is still supported due to the bad reputation of BATTLEFIELD 5.