Ping and routers

[Props]

Hi y'all, I've been familiarizing with a bunch of aircraft and single mission dogfighting working up to entering the furballs of online excitement since putting my new PC together. Well I'm about ready to join some servers for blood and glory (more likely just lot's of pain and death till I get some online flying time under my belt) and have been checking out the ping stats for good gameplay. I live in Ecuador and routinely see only 4 servers with decent ping under 100. We have pretty good internet here and my provider is top notch I just figure we're so far away from many of the servers that are available that it's a geographic issue. I've also noted that a few popular servers never show a ping status so I guess the only way to check them out is to fly them. Back in the old days of 2010 when I was flying IL2 1946 online I had good ping in the 70's on average on the best servers and in Ghost Skies so I was used to quality flight online, even though my pipeline was smaller it was a cable connection and no wi-fi, but then I was living in N. Carolina too.

 

But I figure a better router and a step up in my internet pipeline would help a lot. My question is will a better router really be of that much benefit. My gut says yes, but I'm wondering what experiences some of you may have to offer, and/or any good input on a quality router you may provide. My mobo has gigabit ethernet capabilities, but my current router does not as far as I can tell (I think it tops out at 300 Mbps). And though I use the wi-fi connection for my laptop, I use a Cat 6 cable for my Flight PC which I know is always better. Downloads vary from 100ish Kbps to 3 Gbps depending on where it's coming from averaging about 1 GB. S!

 

Oops quick edit: my current router is a Linksys E900 does not even have wi-fi antennas, though like I mentioned I use a cable for the flight pit.

Edited December 8, 2020 by Props

[LLv34_Temuri]

You can check your ping to Finnish Virtualpilots by hopping on the server and checking your ping at https://il2.flying-barans.ru/

Edited December 10, 2020 by LLv34_Temuri

[SCG_OpticFlow]

On 12/8/2020 at 11:11 PM, Props said:

Hi y'all, I've been familiarizing with a bunch of aircraft and single mission dogfighting working up to entering the furballs of online excitement since putting my new PC together. Well I'm about ready to join some servers for blood and glory (more likely just lot's of pain and death till I get some online flying time under my belt) and have been checking out the ping stats for good gameplay. I live in Ecuador and routinely see only 4 servers with decent ping under 100. We have pretty good internet here and my provider is top notch I just figure we're so far away from many of the servers that are available that it's a geographic issue. I've also noted that a few popular servers never show a ping status so I guess the only way to check them out is to fly them. Back in the old days of 2010 when I was flying IL2 1946 online I had good ping in the 70's on average on the best servers and in Ghost Skies so I was used to quality flight online, even though my pipeline was smaller it was a cable connection and no wi-fi, but then I was living in N. Carolina too.

 

But I figure a better router and a step up in my internet pipeline would help a lot. My question is will a better router really be of that much benefit. My gut says yes, but I'm wondering what experiences some of you may have to offer, and/or any good input on a quality router you may provide. My mobo has gigabit ethernet capabilities, but my current router does not as far as I can tell (I think it tops out at 300 Mbps). And though I use the wi-fi connection for my laptop, I use a Cat 6 cable for my Flight PC which I know is always better. Downloads vary from 100ish Kbps to 3 Gbps depending on where it's coming from averaging about 1 GB. S!

 

Oops quick edit: my current router is a Linksys E900 does not even have wi-fi antennas, though like I mentioned I use a cable for the flight pit.

 

Besides using Ethernet link to your router instead of Wi-Fi there isn't much more that you could do. My old 1 Gbps router has about 0.4 ms ping delay from my PC. For testing purposes, you could try setting up your PC to connect directly instead through the router and measure the ping times for both configurations, but my guess is that there won't be a measurable difference.

[Props]

Thanks OpticFlow, I kind of figured that and having been reviewing a bunch of the tech &  gaming forums too, so I'll try some troubleshooting see what happens.

 

Thanks to Temuri too. I figured that joining some servers was the best way to check the ones that didn't show ping in the lobby, and then checking ping once I was in so that's good info.