Best ping for CS2

kayone · Friday at 16:15

Curious to see which ISP offers best ping to UK based servers for CS2. I am currently with VM 1GB and seem to sit around 20 ping on average. Now others from the UK I have seen with as low as 4 ping - will it make a noticeable difference to gaming, probably not, but I'm interested to see understand what other people are pinging at.

kayone · Friday at 17:21

ChrisD. said:
Depends whether you can get fibre or not. I wouldn't have thought FTTC as an example would be much different to VM HFC (if that's what you're on).

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Good question not sure actually. I assumed FTTP as I have the cable to the property but it could be HFC..?

Yes looks to be HFC using the link you provided.

kayone · Friday at 17:23

Disco_P said:
I would imagine that the UK CS2 servers will be somewhere in London so it all depends on how close to London you are and how direct route the traffic takes to the server.

300 mile and terrible routing I can only presume

kayone · Saturday at 07:06

Scooby-DoobyDoo said:
I used to be with virgin and got a ping of about 26, I moved to Toob 900mb and fibre to my pc room and now get about 6.

Do Toob piggyback on VM infra or is a separate fibre?

kayone · Saturday at 11:03

Grim5 said:
I usually get 2ms to 4ms

ISP?

kayone · 2025-01-06T06:16:50+0000

Rroff said:
Potentially, depends on the quality of the connection and the update rate/network architecture and/or latency compensation features of the game. In an ideal world it wouldn't count for much but we don't live in an ideal world.

Yes it appears to by hybrid and there's currently no way for me to get FTTC at this time which is a shame.

kayone · 2025-01-06T09:21:31+0000

ChrisD. said:
You don’t want FTTC really, you want FTTP.

Yes, that's what I meant :-)

Fibre to the Prem.

Hotwired said:
A microwave signal without thinking of anything else is only ~1.6 millionths of a second faster per km.

But line of sight is a shorter distance and you will notice that it's not having to hop nearly as many times and you can have more control over the connection unlike cables buried across a city.

But it's also specialised and not the internet, if you want to do general stuff it's back to sending data over someone elses cables again.