Your Ping in Texas?

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Anybody here from Texas? I just wanted to know what ping you usually get and on what service. I’m on Spectrum and usually get an average of 60ms.

Was previously on their 100mbps service and recently moved up to 200mbps, but sadly the ping didn’t improve at all and is still sitting around 60ms. I even tried changing the DNS, but no dice. Wondering if this is just normal for this distance away from Blizzard’s Chicago servers, or of the Spectrum connection itself, etc.

Would be nice if Blizzard set up a server here for the Southwest/Southeast regions. :slightly_frowning_face:

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I’ll update you when I hop in game but my current ping is 21 ms via speed test. I currently have the 100mbps package.

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Wired in at uni I get about 50-60 ping on average. Don’t know the provider.
Believe this is at 250-300 mbps

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60 ping is good, tbh. I have around 60-70 ping usually and am high master. There are T500 players with consistent 100+ ping.

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Austin here. I can definitely say that I’m not having any issues. I’m on Spectrum cable and I’m averaging 72.5 ping, running at about 50 to 60 Mbps.

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Dallas TX, on the 50 mbps plan Frontier, and I’m at 39-46 latency in game.

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2 ping here with AT&T 100 MBPS service testing with OOKLA in SA TX.

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2 ping there are no servers near texas though you are lying

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I believe I’m on Spectrum as well, and I also average a 60ms ping

It’s certainly serviceable, though either the router or my Xbox hates me and I get stuttering lag fairly frequently. Resetting the Xbox usually helps, but only temporarily

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I got pinged by a girl from Texas once but I don’t think we mean the same thing.

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It honestly depends where you live in Texas. I used to be in between Denton and Ft Worth horrible ping and 100 mb speed.

Once I moved closer to downtown Ft Worth I got the 400mb speed. Haven’t looked at the ping cause I was just enjoying playing so many fighting games with no lag.

My friend stays out in Granbury she’s got the really good high speed. I think she has over a gig on spectrum business but I have to ask her again.

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There was a bit of a necro here but just for everyone’s info: bandwidth has nothing to do with ping unfortunately.

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This is not surprising, increasing your bandwidth determines how much data you can stream at any given time, however when connecting to specific services, your ping rate to a specific internet service (in this case, a game server) the closer you are geographically located to that game server. For Texas players most will connect to the Chicago servers and that will average around 60 milliseconds for that distance.

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Guy said he tested with OOKLA - that is a speedtest, the ping was tested on there not on overwatch.