The reason your League of Legends’ ping is high: Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T

North American League of Legends players are reporting some latency, and many are demanding that developer Riot add more servers. But that probably won’t solve the problem.

Gamers on the League of Legends subforum on the Internet aggregation website Reddit are reporting high pings when playing Riot’s multiplayer online arena battler. A ping is a measure of how long it takes for data to get from your computer to a game server. The lower the number, the better the performance you’ll see online. Many people are finding that they have pings of more than 100 milliseconds in League of Legends while other games are significantly lower. Naturally, this has dedicated League players pointing the finger to Riot’s insufficient servers, but the problem is more likely with the backbone of the Internet.