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EvilMonkey:FlameBeard: Its probably worth mentioning too that the low ping from Fibre can only been seen and guaranteed within our network. Outside of our own network we cannot guarantee you the low ping times that you would see nationally. That's just not going to happen.
Seeing as you're going to the other side of the world, chances are you're taking the same path over there from our network, when you were on DSL that you are now that you're on fibre. Why it was lower on DSL we couldn't really tell you, perhaps you were even taking another route over for one reason or another. For Australian servers we might be able to provide some manipulation there, might.
How on earth you play with 180 ping though is beyond me, I normally get about 33/66ms when I play Dota, on an Australian server, anything higher than 100/120 is a pita, for me at least.
Someone also posted here about the ping time increasing on the second hop of the trace route. Probably worth mentioning again that ICMP traffic is de-prioritised on our core network, so expect some increase there.
Is really frustrating when someone gets an idea then everyone else runs with it. I do not have a problem with how high or low my ping is.
There is some instability causing small spikes making games unplayable, I am also getting it in other games.
I am not sure if it is a problem on local trafic servers as my ping is so low a small spike would probably not make much difference. I will do some more testing.
Then I think if the problem only manifests itself as a defect within the game but doesn't have a signature via ping, tracert etc then it is something that is going to be impossible to troubleshoot further.
Other posters have reported getting it on other carriers - which points to it being outside NZ, you report it on other games, which points to it being a common factor in your setup/connection - there just isn't a pattern to work with here - it could even be a game server issue.
