distance measuring equipment (miles to destination airport) and elevation

Ping isn't a thing you can simply "resolve" with a setting.

Let's make an analogy to explain what Ping actually does.

Imagine the internet being the public road network, with highways, country roads and all that stuff.

Pinging something is the equivalent of asking a racecar driver to drive to a destination and back, while you measure the time it takes the driver to get there.

So if you tell the driver to drive to the store down the road, and come back, it might take the driver just a few seconds.

However, when you're in Brazil, and you ask the driver to go to the Eiffel Tower in France, he'll drive out of your town to the next airport, load the car in a plane, fly to Paris, leave the airport, weave through the heavy traffic in Paris, until he gets
to the Eiffel Tower, and then heads back to the airport, flies back to Brazil, speeds down the highways, then has to slow down on the regular roads to your home town, and finally arrives back at your house, a few days later.

Even though it's the same car, same driver etc., the Ping measurement to your store around the corner took a few seconds, while the Ping measurement to the Eiffel Tower took several days.

And it's similar to your ping issue:

Your ISP is taking the request to go to Seattle, and has a high bandwidth connection to the US, where high bandwidth connections are more common. Imagine your racecar being able to speed down highway after highway until he gets to the destination.

Whereas when you ping the datacenter in Brazil, they don't have the high bandwidth connections, and the racecar has to take rural roads with a lot of traffic and has to slow down.

So it's not a setting which influences which roads your car can take to the ping destination. If there are only slow connections to the ping destination, there is no way to really speed things up.

10 miles seems like a long distance.

BF4 will be nothing but war games utilizing MILES equipment. Players will be required to lay prone and pretend to be dead once the MILES equipment notifies them of being hit.

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It'll be shoulder-to-shoulder fighting from elevator to elevator.

Hi,

As I understand it port 53 can't be opened because it already is.

I think you've misunderstood what port forwarding does. Port forwarding does not affect ping, at least not directly.

Opening ports helps open your router's NAT, which, in turn will help you connect to the best or nearer game servers on your console. It's these servers that have good pings, not the forwarding of ports.

Ping is the time it takes for data to be sent to a destination and be returned, measured in milliseconds.

Regardless of port forward settings, if you connect to a server 2,000 miles away, the 'ping' in milliseconds will be a lot bigger than say a connection to a server 200 miles away. But if your NAT is not open you may not be able to connect to that server
200 miles away.

Hope that makes sense.