10meg and Gaming

[andybeary]

I have recently been upgraded to 10meg since being on 3meg, i used to get decent pings of about 10 - 30 while playing games like mohaa. I now get between 25 - 40?

I would have thought the pings would have got better say 5 - 15. How does it work and why so low?

Does anyone else have low pings in games. Also when running All Seeing Eye and it tests your speed it comes up the same as when i had a 3 meg connection. However when i goto any speed test site it does indeed say 9.5meg or around that.

Seems the connection works at 10meg for somethings and not for others humm

[Jon M]

The only things that affect pings (latency) are
1. physical distance and number of devices between you and the gameserver
2. line quality
3. traffic

Your higher bandwidth can ease traffic locally but essentially it won't make any difference.

[Cerberus]

Forgive my explanation of this but some games are cahed to run at certain speeds. Example being RTCW (Return to Castle Wolfenstein) is cahed to run at 512k.

Some one will no doubt correct this explanation but like I said my explanation isn't that good.

[andybeary]

thanks that kinda anwsers my question

[SnoopZ]

My pings always stayed the same from 600k - 2Mb - 10Mb broadband. The pings are around 20 on a UK server which i'm happy about.

[Cerberus]

The only time I notice a huge difference in Ping is when I play on German servers and that counts for all games that I play. Mainly RtCW, ET, BF1942 & Desert Combat, BF2. Other European servers are fine but always the German ones and I have never known why?

[saxo_vtr_paul]

Originally Posted by SnoopZ

My pings always stayed the same from 600k - 2Mb - 10Mb broadband. The pings are around 20 on a UK server which i'm happy about.

same here, my ping is between 17-30 for UK servers but outside it is about 40. I use US servers alot too because of my clan. my ping on them are around 30-70.

But I always tend to choose a UK server is possible.

[Cerberus]

Originally Posted by saxo_vtr_paul

I use US servers alot too because of my clan. my ping on them are around 30-70.

Thats quite decent tbh considering my ping on all US servers is usually 140 - 200 on all games I play.

Shocked!

[jtwn]

Ping of 30 on a US server?

Yah right.

[Cerberus]

Originally Posted by jtwn

Ping of 30 on a US server?

Yah right.

I was thinking the same tbh but didn't want to come across as being sarcastic!

Everyone I know pings at least 120+ on US servers and thats with decent connections. How ever if he gets that kind of ping then fair play to him!

[Ignition]

Originally Posted by Cerberus

I was thinking the same tbh but didn't want to come across as being sarcastic!

Everyone I know pings at least 120+ on US servers and thats with decent connections. How ever if he gets that kind of ping then fair play to him!

His kit lies to him and just tells him he is

[dcclanuk]

Originally Posted by Ignition

His kit lies to him and just tells him he is

the lowest i had on a US server was 99ms, and that is with f2s... but recently they have messed that up too and it is now 150ms!

[Ignition]

The London -> New York round trip is 65ms or more even from a datacentre either side.

Ping from Telehouse North London to a Level3 router in New York Internet Exchange:

PING 4.78.160.37 (4.78.160.37): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 4.78.160.37: icmp_seq=0 ttl=251 time=67.377 ms
64 bytes from 4.78.160.37: icmp_seq=1 ttl=251 time=67.493 ms
64 bytes from 4.78.160.37: icmp_seq=2 ttl=251 time=67.471 ms
64 bytes from 4.78.160.37: icmp_seq=3 ttl=251 time=67.586 ms
^C
--- 4.78.160.37 ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 67.377/67.482/67.586/0.074 ms

[jtwn]

You can though 'rate hack' on source based games by setting packets to be exchanged /s down but you are a proper klaxon if you do =)