as i understand it ping refers to the quality and speed of your internet connection.someone confirm this for me and correct me if i am misinformed. also what ping numbers are acceptable minimum standards for multiplay. and what internet speed as to ---ps. are minimum standards.----thanking you in advance --------------TS8-majsmt--------------------------------
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Ping is the time, in milliseconds, it takes for a packet of data to be sent to and a response is received from the target computer. You want ping time to be lowest.
Ping is therefore a measure of latency, not speed/bandwidth.
The closer you are to the target computer, the lower the ping...usually
The more hops you have to make to the target computer, the higher the ping...usually
There is nothing you can do on your side to improve your ping. If your pings are not good, all you can do is contact your ISP and ask them if there is a problem. The exception to this rule would be if your are eating up a lot of your bandwidth by having a shared connection that other people are using, or by downloading large files while playing...this can cause your ping to be extremely high unless you are using a special gaming router, or have a special program/computer set up to prioritize packets for gaming.
A tool such as a trace route (e.g. Ping Plotter) can sometimes show where ping 'spikes' occur and that particular machine between you and your target server is likely having problems.
I like to have ping be less than 100 ms for a good fast action online game like BF2. Some people say they can play with a ping of under 200 ms.
My ping is usually 60 ms or lower and I don't ever seem to have a problem with latency. If my ping gets above 200 ms, I find the game completely unplayable and have to quit.
Satellite-based internet connections are notorious for having super-high latency somewhere in the 500 ms ping range to the first hop!!! This is completely unacceptable for online gaming.
Most wired internet connections and even most wireless (i.e. radio) internet connections provide great pings for gaming. -
The biggest problem with ping is it doesn't use a very large packet size. The default is usually 32 or 64 bytes. This doesn't really give you an accurate sense of the true round trip time because most programs send data in larger sizes to minimize the number of packets they have to send. More packets means more IP addressing overhead. A good test is to ping with a variable like 5000. This will force fragmentation on the ISP routers and give you a good idea of what your connection is really like.
ping <ip address> -l 5000 -t
Fragmentation is more work on the routers and usually gives you a better idea of how your ISP is performing. Now, games are supposed to be optimized for WAN play so I'm sure if your connection is steady you should be ok up to 100-150ms. I usually stay on servers below 200.Comment
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my ping generally bounces between 30-80. Anything under 50 is great. Under 100 good. Under 150 decent. Anything above 150 is gonna be noticable and degrade the gaming experience.Comment
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Re: ping
im in central texas so 90% of whats in the US is under 100ms. i would stay under 100-150ms for a great experience.Comment
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