Thank you very much for the quick response mgcarley . So this is very hilarious that due to political issues we as neighbours cant play together . But just one more question for you
Is there any ISP say reliance or ANY ISP which can get me pings up to ~150 ms to a Europe host say a host in Turkey (lies in east Europe so will be closer to ASIA) ? And increase in Internet speed ( getting increase to 1MBps (8mbps) will lower ping or is it just the line quality and the route the packets take matters ? But the main reason for me getting Increase my Internet speed is to get higher upload (2000 kbps ) so there are better chances of me hosting games and have the lowest ping possible but if increase in the speed can lower ping then i'll be happy .
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With my ISP I *can* get around 150ms to France and some other nearby countries - sometimes even a bit less, and we're trying to even improve on that by fine-tuning our routing tables, before launch. But as mentioned in my previous post, even though a country might be physically closer, that doesn't necessarily mean that the route distance between you in Delhi and someone in say, Istanbul, is going to be anything like that, as cables pretty much do not go "as the crow flies".
An ISP in India is quite unlikely to have an arrangement with any Turkish ISP that gets them to Turkey directly or easily, there is almost definitely going to be an intermediary for whatever reason. My suspicion would be that traffic from India to Turkey actually goes through Italy, France, Germany or even the UK - in my case, my traffic goes MyISP > Airtel > Telia > TurkTelekom.
So, while it is possible to get 150ms pings to Europe, it's very much a question of picking the right player. And then despite that, your pings to Pakistan or Turkey might still suck because of the above.
There are a combination of factors which can affect your ping time:
[*]Speed of the line (to a certain degree)
[*]Technology in use at ALL levels in the network
[*]Upstream provider of your ISP (and the quality of their bandwidth)
[*]Congestion on your ISP's network
[*]Congestion on your ISP's upstream's network
[*]Congestion on friend's ISP's network
[*]ISP peering (do the two ISPs peer directly or is there one or more third parties between us and them?)
[*]ISP's peering location (does the route to go via somewhere else that's quite out of the way? I've seen my routes to MTNL Mumbai be directed through Paris when things were being stupid).
[*]Distance (not necessarily physical distance, but cable/route distance as described above)
[*]and surely a bunch of others
[/list]Considering that you're playing games, all this applies at the other end, too - let's say you're playing against someone in Turkey: if that person has a shoddy line then you can improve yours all you want, you still won't be able to improve your ping times very much.
As such, your best bet is most likely to play on servers local or local-ish to you.
Also what exactly do you mean by "move away from a DSL connection" ?
ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line) is the type of technology your ISP is using to connect you to the big wide world of Broadband. Airtel uses this, as does MTNL, BSNL and a few others to a certain extent.