With the Internet speed become faster and faster, why does the online game ping/latency seemed stagnant?
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“Internet speed” can easily be improved by laying more cables and other investments in infrastructure.
Latency is mostly limited by the speed of electricity and electromagnetic radiation (ie. light and radio waves) over a given distance. Realistically you can only improve latency by reducing the distance (which is what CDNs and multiplayer matchmaking algorithms do, and why automatic stock traders operate from data centers close to Wall Street), or by focusing on the small portion of latency that is introduced in network equipment like switches and exchanges (mostly by increasing processing power of those devices, which has high cost for minimal gain).
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