That is actually interesting Alex. I thought the inbound routing would be exactly the same but mirrored as latency does not seem to vary in most cases?
I am curious where is this server located? In France or Germany?
Tracing route to 151.80.12.9 over a maximum of 30 hops
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.0.1
2 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms vt1.cor1.lond2.ptn.zen.net.uk [51.148.72.23]
3 11 ms 11 ms 10 ms ae-3.pe1.ixn-lon.zen.net.uk [51.148.73.2]
4 11 ms 11 ms 10 ms ae-1.pe1.thn-lon.zen.net.uk [51.148.73.94]
5 11 ms 10 ms 10 ms vl-50.ae-6.cr1.th-lon.zen.net.uk [51.148.73.57]
6 * * * Request timed out.
7 15 ms 14 ms 14 ms be103.gra-g2-nc5.fr.eu [213.251.128.64]
8 13 ms 13 ms 13 ms be7.gra-vac1-a75.fr.eu [213.186.32.167]
9 13 ms 13 ms 13 ms gra-vac1-a75-1-firewall.fr.eu [178.33.99.150]
10 13 ms 13 ms 14 ms gra-vac1-a75-2-shield.fr.eu [178.33.99.137]
11 14 ms 13 ms 14 ms gra-vac1-a75-3.fr.eu [178.33.99.149]
12 * * * Request timed out.
13 18 ms 17 ms 17 ms vl1248.rbx-d2-a75.fr.eu [37.187.231.252]
14 27 ms 27 ms 27 ms vl1251.sbg-g2-a75.fr.eu [37.187.232.29]
15 28 ms 28 ms 29 ms be50-7.sbg-4b-a9.fr.eu [188.165.9.76]
16 27 ms 27 ms 28 ms ns3030614.ip-151-80-110.eu [151.80.110.120]
17 27 ms 27 ms 26 ms 151.80.12.9
Trace complete.
it is in France, what game is you play? some games have the ability to use proxies which can affect pings quite dramatically.
for what it is worth i get the same trace as you on a completely different ISP
Tracing route to 151.80.12.9 over a maximum of 30 hops
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 7 ms 7 ms 7 ms bb01.tw140-l6.lon.gb.voicehost.co.uk [37.157.53.5]
3 7 ms 7 ms 7 ms te-0-1-0.cr01.tn19-f9.lon.gb.voicehost.co.uk [37.157.53.33]
4 * * * Request timed out.
5 10 ms 11 ms 11 ms be103.gra-g1-nc5.fr.eu [91.121.215.178]
6 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms be5.gra-vac1-a75.fr.eu [213.186.32.165]
7 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms gra-vac1-a75-1-firewall.fr.eu [178.33.99.150]
8 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms gra-vac1-a75-2-shield.fr.eu [178.33.99.137]
9 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms gra-vac1-a75-3.fr.eu [178.33.99.149]
10 * * * Request timed out.
11 15 ms 14 ms 14 ms vl1248.rbx-d2-a75.fr.eu [37.187.231.252]
12 24 ms 24 ms 24 ms vl1251.sbg-g2-a75.fr.eu [37.187.232.29]
13 26 ms 27 ms 26 ms be50-7.sbg-4a-a9.fr.eu [188.165.9.72]
14 28 ms 24 ms 24 ms ns3030614.ip-151-80-110.eu [151.80.110.120]
15 24 ms 24 ms 24 ms 151.80.12.9