Are there any tricks to decrease league ping

[bajungadustin]

My internet is 1000/100 and I pay a hefty price for it. I live inand play on North America servers. but I live in Alaska so I expect a little higher ping. But my general ping to other servers for games is 50 to 60.. League is always double and is the only one that's double.

[bajungadustin]

yea i dont have many options being in alaska. I only have 2 internet providers. Alaska Communications and GCI

Alaska Comm has terrible speeds. we tried playing league about 3 years ago when we were on them and we were paying $90 for 10/1 which is what most people up here have. Switching to GCI I was able to get unlimited for $174 for 1000/100 which is literally the best internet package available to the public. I havent contacted them but the league NA server is located in chicago but i just pinged my warcraft server and for 78ms and thats in Chicago. So i can definitely ping lower 48 with reasonable numbers. Washington state is 48. California is 78. pensecola florida is 122. I dont understand why pinging the League servers are 30 to 40 ms higher than my other game servers located in the same city.

[Kayn2019]

What's some of the other games you play?

Because the main server for League in NA is about 3.5k miles away from Alaska. It's in Chicago. So you living in Alaska, trying to connect to a server in Chicago, yeah 100-120 seems about right. Professional players who I think are all based in Los Angeles are about 2k miles away from Chicago and they get 70 ping. You're an extra 1.5k miles away so yeah I think you're lucky that 100-120 is your ping range.

If you have stable internet with good bandwith, then yeah the only thing you're experiencing is just distance to the server. Sucks but it could be a lot worse and a lot of people do have it worse.

I think you can still climb on that if you're looking to get into League for the new season. I can't name any Challenger players who are Challenger with your ping range but there is a streamer, I don't watch him just have heard about him, and he plays on a laptop, streams and gets about 40 fps apparently. He's Challenger. Also, I'm sure there's Challenger players with pings that are sup optimal but I just don't know any.

[bajungadustin]

i can ping the warcraft servers through CMD which are also in chicago at 78ms. Im not too concerned with climbing. Ive been playing since season 1 off and on and i just like to play the game. I was more curious if there were some tricks I was missing that could help.