Quote Originally Posted by Sephirah View Post
Believe it or not your ISPs support will work with you to get a better route when connecting to specific things if you can show them where the problem is.
First, almost no major ISP is going to change their BGP routing tables just because one person has a ping delay through a backbone router. Even assuming you can actually get to someone that even understands what that is and has the power to change it.

Second, there is no guarantee that doing that will give you a better route.

Third, This shouldn't even be needed. This is the internet, jumping up 50ms between two routes is not bad. Having 2% packetloss over a link is not horrible. It's horrible when playing FFXIV because they have not figured out how to implement a standard real time gaming protocol like every other AAA MMO.

And lastly, no one is going to go through all that trouble with their ISP to fix a game they are paying $15ish a month for. They are just going to stop paying and move onto a game that does work for them.