What is PING?!?! I see it everywhere!

Every pc game I play I play online has a column called PING. What is it? I feel embarrassed about not knowing what it means. I guess P means players,and G means game...:question:

It's the time it takes for your computer to talk with the host, expressed in milliseconds.

The lower the better. Talking about FPSs and fighting games, when it goes over 150-200 it starts to become unplayable.

It's the time it takes for your computer to talk with the host, expressed in milliseconds.

The lower the better. Talking about FPSs and fighting games, when it goes over 150-200 it starts to become unplayable.

N30F3N1X

This, Ideal ping for those types of gaming is 90ms or below. Like he said above, the lower the better.

Many things factor into this, your ISP, your connection speed, your ISP's routing, your personal network speed, the quality of all the wires, on the poles, to your house, in your house, and going to your pc.

As well as software settings, and other software than can slow your internet to a crawl, as well as increase your pings, significantly, I am having trouble locating the problem with high ping with 1 of the 3 pc,s on my network. I have tried everything I know to work on it, I posted in hardware, maybe someone will recommend me try something that I haven't thought of yet.

High ping in FPS games: you move, 5 seconds later your character goes back to where he was 5 seconds ago.

Everything lower than 180ms is fine

Its the quantitative measurement everyone calls "lag." Many people are under the misconception that faster throughput speed (megabits per second) means lower lag. When you have a steady successful connection, a higher mpbs is nice...but for games, a low ping is what you want.

High ping in FPS games: you move, 5 seconds later your character goes back to where he was 5 seconds ago.

Everything lower than 180ms is fine

Lox_Cropek

OP thought it was an acronym...lol.Remmib

Everyone's been noob once :P

ive always wondered this too

thanks

Ping is the amount of time it takes for you to send packets to the server/host and get a response back. The lower the better. If you have a high ping, say, 150ms, then there will be a noticeable delay in you shooting and the bullets actually hitting. Whereas, if you have a 60ms ping, it probably won't be noticeable. Basically, you shoot at someone. Your computer sends that information, as packets, to the server. The server gets the packets, and sends packets of information to you. When you get the packets, you see the guy getting shot.

put simply, low = good, high = bad

Every pc game I play I play online has a column called PING. What is it? I feel embarrassed about not knowing what it means. I guess P means players,and G means game...:question:

crazyluigi199

[QUOTE="Remmib"]OP thought it was an acronym...lol.N30F3N1X

Everyone's been noob once :P

Packet INternet Groper

It's what's currently preventing me from entering into online matches via Steam for some reason...

So who actually noticed the necro?

So who actually noticed the necro?

Lach0121

:D

[QUOTE="Lach0121"]

So who actually noticed the necro?

geitenvla

:D

Don't mind it, it's just a funny word.

Would take you much less time to just type PING into google (or what is PING?) and youd get a very quick answer.

[QUOTE="geitenvla"]

[QUOTE="Lach0121"]

So who actually noticed the necro?

kraken2109

:D

Yeah but the weird thing is, this post was on my second page of topics without anyone replying before me (after 2011)!? Now how did that happen :question:

[QUOTE="kraken2109"][QUOTE="geitenvla"]

:D

geitenvla

Yeah but the weird thing is, this post was on my second page of topics without anyone replying before me (after 2011)!? Now how did that happen :question:

Easy, someone posted, then realized they necro'd a thread, then deleted their post. 

Which is why its only on the 2nd page of topics, cause it was bumped, but the post that bumped it was deleted. So there wasn't one above yours.

Every pc game I play I play online has a column called PING. What is it? I feel embarrassed about not knowing what it means. I guess P means players,and G means game...:question:

crazyluigi199

I remember when I used to play Quake 3 PR1.6 on the US Dreamcast servers with 33.6k modem and 400ms ping. Fun times.