I used to have fantastic low latency to most US based services, being in Tulsa and with Cox.
Lately, however, I am somehow having higher latency than friends on opposite coasts of the locations of some things I use frequently.
Our Ventrilo server is a good example. I see 75+ ping always. Generally it ends up around the 80-100 range.
People on the east coast are getting 30-40 millisecond typical latency to this server from various ISPs. The guy in Seattle is getting 30-40 as well.
Server is melanite.typefrag.com which is currently showing as 54.201.6.109
Checking a whois entry is listing it in Seattle.
Okay, I can accept to not have stellar latency to Seattle from Oklahoma, but 75+?
Checking a tracert shows the problem occurring is that I am getting routed through a Cox node in New York to connect to this server. Not only that, but I am getting a rather large latency of 80 or so for that node, compared to the 6-7 before, and the 10-20 max per node from checking random websites(msn, google ips, etc.).
The hop in question is: sanjbprj01-ae0.0.rd.sj.cox.net
Why am I being routed through a New York node, that seems to be overloaded, to access a server in Seattle?
I haven't checked tracerts for other things that I typically have higher latency in as I cannot remember which ones it happens with. Seems to be random, but if I run across another one I can post it.
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