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heinreich

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#323896 31-Jan-2026 16:03
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Ola peeps, 

 

 

 

First post - sorry if this topic has been discussed at length.

 

I have been with 2Degrees broadband for about a year with no issues. After the SEA cable damage in Dec 2025 (which has now apparently been repaired?) my latency on gaming servers in the SEA area has gone from 120ms (where it used to be) to 160ms. (a small enough difference that it affects competitive gameplay). 

 

My mate is with Mercury, and he gets the expected 120ms ping. 

 

 

 

Any ISPs you can suggest that I move to (other than Mercury which is currently at pos 1)? 

 

 

 

Thanks in advance


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Talkiet
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  #3457519 31-Jan-2026 19:46
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This is generally a terrible metric to base a decision on. Some ISPs might load balance over different routes for different customers at different times, so 2 customers on the same ISP may have different results from each other on different days.

 

An ISP (or their upstreams) might make a decision tomorrow that changes their routing to either improve or degrade latency on some routes. They might even do it to move from a congested (but shorter) circuit to an empty (but longer) route.

 

Changing ISPs because of a 40ms difference to one set of servers when you're otherwise happy with the server seems shortsighted to me.

 

Cheers - N

 

 





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