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Originally posted by Ramrod
hang on a sec....when I had 56k and lived 15 miles from the server I had a ping of 95. Now I have 1mb BB and live 500miles from the server and have a ping of 40. How can you say that ping is not related to speed as my game is now a lot smoother?
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Ping is related to the technology it runs on.
Take this example from cable. From your house to the ntl ubr traffic runs at the same speed, you have at your end a funnel (sort of). The narrow end of the funnel will only let data through at its width (600k) If your playing a game and only a 64b packet are going through then this funnel lets it all through unrestricted onto the ntl network where it travels at its set speed to the ubr. This network is mostly optical so its damn fast this gives you the nice low pings, speed (Amount of data you can shift through the funnel at any given time) is irelevent. On a copper telephone network data cannnot travel as fast so has higher ping.
The only way your ping would be affected by a speed change on your modem would be if you where dl on your connection hence creating a q of information at your funnel.
I think this makes sence.