Hello
I live in Saudi Arabia and we have two main ISP companies, one called “STC” and the other is “Mobily”.
I have a fiber line from “Mobily”, and the latency to 1.1.1.1 is ~23ms which is great, and my friend has a fiber line from “STC”, and his latency to 1.1.1.1 is ~120ms, and we live in the same building.
So went to investigate a bit and tried to trace route the connection to 1.1.1.1 on my connection and on his, turns out on my connection I arrive to 1.1.1.1 right after my ISP with only 3 hops, but with his connection it goes through 13 hops to get to the same destination.
Traceroute has started…
traceroute to 1.1.1.1 (1.1.1.1), 64 hops max, 72 byte packets
1 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 1.632 ms 1.322 ms 1.238 ms
2 46.153.64.1 (46.153.64.1) 56.692 ms 22.505 ms 27.733 ms
3 one.one.one.one (1.1.1.1) 27.063 ms 22.792 ms 25.331 ms
and on his connection
traceroute to 1.1.1.1 (1.1.1.1), 64 hops max, 72 byte packets
1 192.168.100.1 (192.168.100.1) 16.205 ms 5.288 ms 14.158 ms
2 185.76.138.6 (185.76.138.6) 24.352 ms 23.345 ms 54.720 ms
3 10.188.201.25 (10.188.201.25) 19.953 ms 33.669 ms 29.766 ms
4 10.188.201.7 (10.188.201.7) 44.924 ms 49.516 ms 29.839 ms
5 10.188.195.8 (10.188.195.8) 105.483 ms 108.698 ms 119.995 ms
6 de-cix-frankfurt.as13335.net (80.81.194.180) 104.859 ms 109.912 ms 129.603 ms
7 one.one.one.one (1.1.1.1) 105.324 ms 109.451 ms 130.173 ms
notice that my ping is not stable because I’m connecting from a point where my Wi-Fi and my friend’s Wi-Fi are reachable to do the testing.
My question is what did “Mobily” do to lower the ping and limit the hops ? Is it something they’ve done or Cloudflare parted with them or something ?, I just need a bit of explaining about the matter, and what the other ISP “STC” should do to achieve a better latency with 1.1.1.1 ?
I’m asking here because I know my ISP support won’t have any idea about what I just wrote.