PING problem please help!

On Speedtest, it is indicated i have a 450ms Ping to a server thats 50 miles away! Can someone tell me how i can reduce this? It was never this high and it just started a couple weeks ago.

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Open the Terminal and do a traceroute to that IP and you'll see exactly where the hangup is. Just because the location is relatively close doesn't mean that the path is more direct.

How do i do that?

I just ran another test and these are my results

DL 9.20 mb/s
UP 0.02 mb/s
Ping 554 ms

Open the Terminal (Applications => Utilities => Terminal).

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Substitute 192.168.0.1 for whatever IP you're trying to troubleshoot.