[rudedog]

Here is my situation

I have cable, I live in RI right now the game server is in Boston. about 50 miles away, in distance.

My cable company has it's network setup so when I exit and actually get on the Internet and off coxes private network. I exit out of Atlanta.
then my packets have to come all the way back up the coast.

Now if I had dsl, they might have a different system, they might exit there private network out of NY then hit Boston.

So it also has to do with how your old and new provider is setup.

On a side note. aa.com and doa servers are having problems with our providers ISP ( the person they get connected to the Internet ) This will change when they move the servers to Washington DC. You should see some improvement. I went from a 65ms down to a 27ms. The funny thing is I go through 3 more routers to get there, but they are better and faster

Hope this little rant helps you understand how your ISP and Internet works