Lol Get better internet its not you its ur internet service i recently switched from At&T to Cox and i used to get 30 ping now i get 100 xD soo its ur internet 100 %%
Before the server changed hosts, I get around 250-300 and now I get around 180-190 still a bad ping tho
And no one notices the increased player count because you know most of the children of the world are on summer break. That means millions of children are plugging away into minecraft some of which go to this server that increased player count is going to ruin your connection. Everyone suffers the connection issues when the summer ends your connection will be back to normal.