Hosting? Registry probs or what?

[Kilika]

I play R6 on Mplayer and i get a ping to myself of like 24ms. Most people see me at 120ms. My friend on the same server gets the same ping. I have a p3 450 160mb pc100 ram. He has amd k6-2 300mhz with 64mb pc66 ram. He can host better than I can? Does anyone out there know the deal? I have messed with patches and so on. Fooled around with alot of other stuff.... Where's the mastermind that I need to talk to? LOL