> ok this is a far shot > > but in the past pinging my game server from home [5 7 away] > sucked, i would get a ping of 150 or so > & people 2 states over with the same modem & rr service would get pings of > 50-60. > > any way recently my ping suddenly went back to where it should be 50-60 > > what i want to know is > is there a way to detect the fastest route to a server & then Force a cable > modem to use that route?
Not really. > in the past some times doing a trace route, i would seem to get sent a few > states over & then back to my city? > odd, yes.. Nope. The routers decide this for you. That's what they are there for :) It all has to do with peering agreements and such. > any one else ever seen this? All the time. It's very common. Here at work, I go from Charlotte, to NY, to Atlanta GA, and then back to Charlotte, just to access a machine that's a few miles away. It sounds silly, but if you get in there and look at how routing works, it will make more sense :) > -paul Todd ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
