chess.com connection speed favors U.S based players

I am a US citizen living in europe I am lately all about bullet and but losing mostly on time. And I began to play most of moves as premoves but that doesn't change things a bit. I could make 2-3 moves in a second but the US flagged opponents can make it up to 7-9.

Is there anything I can do to improve connection? Would changing the flag to a european country make me connect to a faster server?

dunno what to do.

will stop playing bullet just bcoz of that.

what about asking your ISP to upgrade your internet speed?

also, anyone can use any flag. changing flags affects nothing. they are not VPN proxies

There's only things client side that can be done: https://support.chess.com/article/213-how-do-i-fix-my-disconnect-lag-issues

However, if there's an issue between you and the site, there's not a lot that you can do.

At the speed of bullet play network lag can be significant. I'm in upstate New York and it takes 22 milliseconds for a signal to go from my PC to chess.com and back. It takes 96 milliseconds, or roughly four times longer, to travel to and from the BBC site in the UK. This is partly caused by the distance traveled but mostly it's the lag in the network switches and routers between you and your destination. There's really nothing you can do about that.

that's not about my internet speed but a latency problem. I am using wireless maybe changing it to cable will fix the issue a bit.

thanks man, appreciate it.

No matter what the tech companies tell you, cable is still faster than wireless. It might help.

thanks very much, I will be trying cable. Looks like the only fix feasible. I pinged to chess.com and had a response of 72ms

Irony, thy name is first amendment.

And as an American player, yeah, I see other nations tend to lag out more. Oh well, petition chess.com to pay for better servers, get over it, or go to a different site. Not many other options, really.

what about the fact that chess.com is slow in some places, however fast you're internet is

yay for me.

It has nothing to do with better servers.

An electrical impulse (or a light impulse in a fibre-op cable) can only travel a certain distance before it degrades due to line losses, to the point that it loses its informational content. The Internet is referred-to as the World Wide Web for a reason... it consists of many thousands (or hundreds of thousands? Millions?) of switches and routers, linked together by cables. 

Each time a packet of information passes through a switch or router, it is boosted back up to full strength so that it can continue its journey onward towards the destination IP address. But this comes at a price... every device has an internal switching speed, and the lag (or latency) gradually accumulates as the information packet travels onward.

Chess.com has to be based SOMEWHERE. That country (in this case, the USA) will experience little latency. Other countries will experience more, increasing with the number of switches and routers (and higher with with lower-tech devices) along the path of the information packet.

Hmmm. So that explains my premove are always 0.5 - 0.8secs despite having a 55mbps up/down speed. Here in our country, thats already a good speed. I lose a game or two because of those funny premove end game battles lmao

Does Australia have newer infrastructure than Japan? Did you switch to fiber-op later?

One problem here in New Brunswick is that this was the first part of Canada to shift to fiber-op... which sounds great, except it means that now that the rest of Canada has made the switch, our infrastructure is the oldest and slowest in Canada.

Why don't they just upgrade it?

It's not too hard to persuade tax-payers to shell out tens of millions of dollars in order to install a service that has proven very useful elsewhere in the world.

It's A LOT harder to persuade them to shell out tens of millions of dollars in order to rip that service out again and replace it with something that's just an incremental upgrade (faster, but offering no new capabilities).

also distance from us also matters(as blueemu pointed out)

a sum or something between you're actual internet speed and the time it takes for the moves to register from chess.com's base

I'm from India and when i play from my laptop nearly no problem but when i play with my phone, it takes about 2-3 seconds for the move to register. As a result, i end up losing half my games on time. My internet speed is quite high (100mbps download speed) so this is either a problem with the server OR my phone.

you can use traceroute on windows, mac, and linux to check lag.  pathping on windows. mtr on linux

Different network adapters? Different signal paths?

Your laptop would communicate directly to the router in your own house... by wireless? By ethernet cable? Only a few meters away, anyway. Then directly into the internet.

Your phone would communicate with... what? Send the signal up to a satellite, across to another satellite, then down to your phone company before being handed off to an ISP (Internet Service Provider). Tens of thousands of kilometers, before it even enters the internet?