Does your PC affect your Ping?

[Glass of Lime Soda]

If not, my only real option would be to use a ethernet cable or something to deal with ping.

[SundownKid]

No, it shouldn't affect it. If you are on WiFi then you should go ethernet for lowest possible ping.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

A majority of those factors are:
- LAN Adapter Settings in the OS
- ISP line quality
- Server-side quality and traffic to which you are connecting; like a game server for example
- Distance and travel between you and the server to which you are connecting

[MaddDoktor [Linux]]

A long time ago I had a cheap Ethernet nic that could not seem to autonegotiate 100baseT with some devices and would get 25% packet loss. So I had to force it back to 10baseT (but full-duplex worked).

Try pinging your router and also find out from your router or gateway what your ISP's gateway is and try pinging that to see if there is any difference wired or wireless. My PC is on wireless. Ping on WiFi to my DSL gateway is ~1.4 ms ave and ping to my ISP's gateway is ~9 ms ave (no packet loss).

If I use my mobile phone as a WiFi hotspot, ping to my mobile carrier's gateway is in the 300's, but download/upload speeds are triple that of my DSL. That works fine for games like minecraft, but not so good for first person shooters.

For on-line games of course your ping is going to be higher depending upon distance to the server, internet latency, and because ping packets are low priority.

[JS]

To improve ping have your ISP turn interleaving off (ask them to do it), use a LAN port on your modem/router, move closer to the exchange.