Okay, So, I was about to say that the routing to twitch is fucked which it was a couple of months ago and many people tried to get it fixed (Some people over at the paki csgo community tried to get this fixed even) but eventually while there were improvements people still suffered issues.
Just now, I did a traceroute to twitch.tv and it seems like I'm getting 55ms to the server. A week ago I found out that cloud flare's DNS servers were the same 40ms ping.
(Note: I could get as low as 30ms as my friend does get this who lives down the street).
Does anyone know what is going on? Checking the end IP in the traceroute to twitch.tv points to the geolocation of US California. There are some IP's in b/w that point towards UAE, Dubai. The IP's before both of these point towards Karachi.
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| WinMTR statistics |
| Host - % | Sent | Recv | Best | Avrg | Wrst | Last |
|------------------------------------------------|------|------|------|------|------|------|
| 192.168.1.1 - 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| No response from host - 100 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10.0.0.13 - 0 | 4 | 4 | 18 | 22 | 32 | 18 |
| 10.0.2.149 - 0 | 4 | 4 | 23 | 26 | 31 | 23 |
| 10.1.1.6 - 0 | 4 | 4 | 48 | 53 | 61 | 61 |
| static-10GE-KHI275-P01-SwA.pie.net.pk - 0 | 4 | 4 | 42 | 45 | 50 | 42 |
| hi77c2-Sw494b.pie.net.pk - 0 | 4 | 4 | 41 | 45 | 48 | 41 |
| 195.229.27.133 - 0 | 4 | 4 | 60 | 68 | 85 | 61 |
| 195.229.0.89 - 0 | 4 | 4 | 61 | 71 | 84 | 61 |
| 195.229.0.160 - 0 | 4 | 4 | 61 | 74 | 89 | 61 |
| 195.229.4.245 - 0 | 4 | 4 | 64 | 73 | 89 | 64 |
| 151.101.194.167 - 0 | 4 | 4 | 61 | 70 | 84 | 61 |
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WinMTR v0.92 GPL V2 by Appnor MSP - Fully Managed Hosting & Cloud Provider
P.S The pings for Fortnite, Pubg and Pretty much all Ubisoft games or rather they've improved routings to Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure servers really.
There was a Facebook post in the PTCL Gaming lounge FB group. The person who (basically to my knowledge) started the push for local game servers within PTCL came back from the dead in this dead group and started announcing improvements in pings in Rainbow six siege, Fortnite and Pubg one by one. Many people commented that they were getting good pings while others (I was included) weren't getting good pings. I sent him a traceroute with my IP (2-3 times) and 2 weeks later (Without any Abuses will lead to baning or hassle) my pings improved.
I don't know the background of things but regardless I thought it would be nice to share this detail with you all.