Some ping advice please

bopdude · 29-05-2005, 10:36

Morning all, now in dummies english can someone explain to me about ping and ping times, I think I have the basics, my pc sends out a packet of data and the ping is the time it takes to come back, if thats wrong please correct me.

Now I have the 3 MiB NTL connection, ( fast ?? ) when I try to connect to some public servers on Call of Duty or MoHAA a lot of the time I get an error come back that the server is for low ping players only.

Is there something I can do to help my ping times ??

TIA

29-05-2005, 10:51

Chances are the server your trying to connect to is in a land far far away

on the lists you normally can see the ping times from you to them can't you?Someone on that server with high ping obviously can lag the rest,Other servers having high pings for me was the reason I left eagames for moh years ago
Chances are (I hope anyway) nowadays most uk servers will be fine for us,US servers for example may well cause the problem as you have to be routed a few times before you get there

paulyoung666 · 29-05-2005, 10:52

depends where the server is , if it was in australia for example then you would appears as having a high ping , probably around 300 ms , whereas a ping to a uk server maybe as low as 20 ms , as far as i know you cant alter it , it is down to the network conditions and distance

dammit , zingle beat me

29-05-2005, 10:58

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Originally Posted by paulyoung666

depends where the server is , if it was in australia for example then you would appears as having a high ping , probably around 300 ms , whereas a ping to a uk server maybe as low as 20 ms , as far as i know you cant alter it , it is down to the network conditions and distance

dammit , zingle beat me

Sowwy

paulyoung666 · 29-05-2005, 11:10

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Originally Posted by zinglebarb

Sowwy

bopdude · 29-05-2005, 11:46

Thanks lads, more or less confirmed what I thought, just seemed strange that a lot of the servers are coming back with this where as I used to be able to connect to the majority once over, never mind.
Thanks again.

paulyoung666 · 29-05-2005, 15:23

what sort of pings are you getting to various parts of the world , is it a case of you haveing a poor ping anyway , just a thought

Matth · 29-05-2005, 15:50

As I understand it, NTL pings can be rather poor, due to the way upstream slots are scheduled on the cable, and the routes to some areas seem to be pretty miserable too.

One imporatant point, unless size is an issue, the connection speed can often have very little bearing on the ping time.

Gareth · 30-05-2005, 15:57

Bit geeky, but you can read all about ping from its author here... http://ftp.arl.mil/~mike/ping.html

Richard M · 30-05-2005, 15:59

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Originally Posted by bopdude

Thanks lads, more or less confirmed what I thought, just seemed strange that a lot of the servers are coming back with this where as I used to be able to connect to the majority once over, never mind.
Thanks again.

I used to get those errors when I forgot to turn my P2P programs off or when my AV was updating itself.

jtwn · 30-05-2005, 19:25

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Originally Posted by Matth

As I understand it, NTL pings can be rather poor, due to the way upstream slots are scheduled on the cable, and the routes to some areas seem to be pretty miserable too.

One imporatant point, unless size is an issue, the connection speed can often have very little bearing on the ping time.

Not true. I find my pings to often be the lowest on the server, on uk and nl servers. Same goes for mates i know who are on the same ubr as myself.

Richard M · 30-05-2005, 20:04

Just to add to that: the best gaming pings I ever had were on NTL - DSL is by it's nature high latency.

bopdude · 30-05-2005, 20:15

Thanks for all of the posts, I'll try and make a note of pings on different servers, but if I can't get on them its going to be a bit hard

Gareth · 30-05-2005, 20:57

You still see the ping for the server in the list... that's one of the criteria I use when choosing a server to play on.

I agree with those who say that pings from cable are lower than ADSL.

bopdude · 31-05-2005, 00:50

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Originally Posted by Gareth

You still see the ping for the server in the list... that's one of the criteria I use when choosing a server to play on.

I agree with those who say that pings from cable are lower than ADSL.

I see what your saying but my pings on CoD are X 'ed out, it must be something in the settings, I'll check it out. thanks