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the geekpage also recommends to use a VPN to fix high ping in online gaming: https://thegeekpage.com/fix-high-ping-in-online-games/ ....VPN is used widely by gamers all across the world to play on dif…

Yes I am... tracert lichess.org - without VPN (I have erased private data in the first 3 lines): 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms xxx.xxx.x.x 2 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms xxx.xxx.x.x 3 14 ms 14 ms 14 ms xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 4 * * …

I understand and it sounds logical. But why I have then - connecting from south of spain (1900 km to the lichess servers in north France) - normally (without VPN) a ping of 80 to 90 ms and if I use Ex…

I just read in a thread where somebody complained about his high ping to a gming site (while having a great ping to nearly all other sites), the suggestion: "why you do not use a gaming VPN?" Great id…

nearly unbelievable that you have 47 ms ping from the Ukraine and I have 80 ms from Spain with the fastest 1000 MB fiber internet account available over here.

it seems the lichess servers are now in Roubaix, what is according to Google very north in France, at the border to Belgium. Though I live in a neighbour country of France, this makes a whopping 1900 …

@epimer thanks! Interesting answer... I am no expert on those kind of things but here is quite understandable explained what the results of "tracert" mean: https://help.fasthosts.co.uk/app/answers/det…

I know what ping is but as neither my distance to France nor the quality of my internet connection has changed, I search for other explanations

Since a couple of weeks I face double the ping on lichess (I am talking of the value displayed after command cmd ping lichess.org in the windows menu not of the number stated in the lichess dropdown m…