[2020] Living in Alaska and getting 40-60 ping to Cali in csgo but getting 160 ping to Cali on valorant. Why is there such a big difference.

Originally posted by thirdworldsummers

"Delete that shit"

Originally posted by deefop

I live in Denver and never have less than 45 ping when I queue in Valorant.

I have gig fiber with like 5 m/s ping to Denver, and typically Chicago and Dallas are both sub 30 ms.

When I play with my east coast friends we end up on VA servers and I have like 80+ ping, when in CS I can play VA servers with probably 35 to 40 ping.

I opened a ticket about it and the tech eventually just told me that my ISP needed to peer with Riot direct.

Obviously directly peering with another network will improve routing decisions and latency, but I don't have to f**king peer with any networks to play any other game and have amazing ping, so that seems like a bullshit cop out to me.

It's honestly pretty frustrating. Admittedly 45 ping isn't terrible, but playing with friends and getting 80, 90, or 100+ is kind of stupid.

Plus, I've already confirmed in many cases that I can flip on a VPN(I use PIA) and see lower pings. The issue is it isn't totally consistent. I've used PIA and gotten like 15 ping in Valorant, but I've also seen it get worse depending on the server I'm connected to, and sometimes there's a bit of jitter that's worse for gaming than a steady ping anyway.

But at least it proves that shitty routing is actually the problem.

Originally posted by ad33zy

I am also getting the same issues: West coast servers are 170 ping when i am on west coast, central is 90 and east is around 100. I used to ahve less than 40 ping

Originally posted by ad33zy

inyo networks in socal