Why would latency suddenly go up when crossing networks?

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Published on 2010-04-18T02:38:28Z Indexed on 2010/04/18 2:43 UTC
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I'm looking at the latency from my machine to a world of warcraft server.

Every hop while I am in Comcast's network is sub 15ms.

Then it hits ATT and goes to 60-70MS for the rest.

Why would it suddenly jump from 15 to 60 considering it's still in the same city?

Is there anything I can do about it?

G-Man

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Why would latency suddenly go up when crossing networks?

Posted by geoffreyf67 on Super User See other posts from Super User or by geoffreyf67
Published on 2010-04-18T02:38:28Z Indexed on 2010/04/18 7:33 UTC
Read the original article Hit count: 427

Filed under:

latency

|

mac

|

comcast

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att

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traceroute

I'm looking at the latency from my machine to a world of warcraft server.

Every hop while I am in Comcast's network is sub 15ms.

Then it hits ATT and goes to 60-70MS for the rest.

Why would it suddenly jump from 15 to 60 considering it's still in the same city?

Is there anything I can do about it?

G-Man

© Super User or respective owner

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