Kind of a weird request.

[u/Stunning_Exam_4528]

Me and my friend are using Zero Tier One to establish a direct UDP connection between are pcs to have a smoother Terraria experience, the thing is that his ISP is WE (Telecom Egypt), while mine is Vodafone, I noticed that even though we're only ~450 meters apart my ping is at +75 ms ping,

I used the "tracert" command on CMD to trace what path the packets take and found out that it goes like this

Egypt 🇪🇬 -> France (Marseille) 🇫🇷 -> Egypt 🇪🇬

Which is a 2700 km detour.

I investigated a little and found out that this is either he's under CGNAT, or because we have different ISP's, but consider that our connection is direct on Zero Tier, I think it might be that the ISP's have poor internet peering, which might be fixed by having the same ISP?

I just don't want to tell him to switch to Vodafone quite yet, so here comes that "weird request" of mine.

If you're in Egypt and have Vodafone as your ISP, could you run a tracert command on CMD on your PC and paste the results under this post?

Here is my public IP: 197.134.11.69

(It might actually change because of it being dynamic, in that case I'll edit this post so it's correct)

You could also censor the first few hops to hide your public IP 😊

Cheers!