plaque q2 devestation

[l0ckp1ck]

out of interest in relation to the lag and ping troubles i have been having on tastyspleen servers, i decided to go outside of tasty spleen to see if i was having the same issues elsewhere. I came across a server called plaque q2 devestion located in fremont. To my suprise i pinged 200 there, sometimes it even dipped under 200 for me which got me really excited. Can someone tell me where fremont is located compared to the ts servers? and i don't know much about reading traceroutes but here is one i did on this server, and is there a way to talk to my isp to get them to route me the same way to ts servers?


Tracing route to 64.147.170.31 over a maximum of 30 hops

  1     1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  home.gateway [192.168.1.254]
  2    14 ms    13 ms    14 ms  ws-gw-1.winshop.com.au [121.50.223.254]
  3    15 ms    14 ms    13 ms  briswi-gw-fe-1-1-3.the.net.au [121.50.223.1]
  4    14 ms    14 ms    14 ms  po1-10.bdr1.dc1-vars.onthenet.net [121.50.213.3]

  5    15 ms    16 ms    16 ms  210.9.87.66
  6    16 ms    24 ms   153 ms  gi1-2.bforvdist02.aapt.net.au [202.10.13.22]
  7     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  8    32 ms    31 ms    31 ms  te2-1-110.bforvdist01.aapt.net.au [202.10.12.146
]
  9    32 ms    30 ms    30 ms  te0-3-4-0.bforvcore01.aapt.net.au [202.10.12.23]

 10    31 ms    31 ms    31 ms  te0-0-1-0.sclarcore01.aapt.net.au [202.10.10.69]

 11    30 ms    30 ms    29 ms  te2-2.sclardist01.aapt.net.au [202.10.12.2]
 12    30 ms    29 ms    30 ms  te2-1.sclarbrdr01.aapt.net.au [202.10.14.3]
 13    30 ms    31 ms    30 ms  xe7-0-0-320.sybr5.global-gateway.net.nz [202.50.
238.213]
 14     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 15     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 16     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 17     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 18     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 19   190 ms   189 ms   190 ms  205.158.79.141.ptr.us.xo.net [205.158.79.141]
 20   191 ms   190 ms   197 ms  te-4-1-0.rar3.la-ca.us.xo.net [207.88.12.153]
 21   203 ms   202 ms   213 ms  ae0d0.mcr2.fremont-ca.us.xo.net [216.156.0.142]

 22   197 ms   196 ms   197 ms  ae1d0.mcr1.fremont-ca.us.xo.net [216.156.1.69]
 23   199 ms   198 ms   198 ms  216.55.28.22
 24   201 ms   201 ms   202 ms  core-02.te6-3.sfo1.gni.com [64.127.96.253]
 25     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 26     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 27     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 28     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 29     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 30     *        *        *     Request timed out.

Trace complete.

[Barton]

Fremont is in California, which is right beside the pacific ocean. That's why your ping is better.