With the Internet speed become faster and faster, why does the online game ping/latency seemed stagnant?
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Ping in an online game is a measure of how quickly a signal can get from you to that particular game server and back. If you are far away, or the signal is traveling over copper rather than fiber optic, it takes longer.
The only way to change it would be to get closer or if the infrastructure between you and the server got upgraded.
Think of it like a highway where all the cars can only go 60 mph and you are 60 miles from your destination. Increasing the bandwidth is like making the highway wider so more cars can drive on it at once, but it still takes an hour to drive there.
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