What's your Ping?

docdolittle

So, when I was on the other night one of the lads asked me what my ping was. I never actually checked or thought about it since I changed from Eircom to UPC and I was actually suprised how much better it is :P



So... What's yours?

.E_C_K_S.

docdolittle wrote: »

So, when I was on the other night one of the lads asked me what my ping was. I never actually checked or thought about it since I changed from Eircom to UPC and I was actually suprised how much better it is :P



So... What's yours?

I've heard ping test can be unreliable sometimes.
Try opening a command prompt and type "Ping www.google.com" and press enter to see your times. Here are my times:
Minimum=30ms, Maximum=31ms, Average=30ms

Magill

22ms average pinging google.com

Leeg17

PPPPPPPPPIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGG

(ie very long)

Usually 150ms

docdolittle

WALSHY16291 wrote: »

I've heard ping test can be unreliable sometimes.
Try opening a command prompt and type "Ping www.google.com" and press enter to see your times. Here are my times:
Minimum=30ms, Maximum=31ms, Average=30ms

Pretty much the same...

Chefburns

90-∞ bloody useless Gaelic telecom!!!

Kells...

20-50 UPC

Balfie

20-40

Headshot

Eircom 3mb

jimbling

8mb Vodafone in Cork. Never had a ping of under 40ms. It's normally around the 60-80 mark.

x43r0

Average between 15-25ms on UPC 30mb in Cork


Been getting host on 90% of games lately to the delight of myself and the party

hightower1

WALSHY16291 wrote: »

I've heard ping test can be unreliable sometimes.
Try opening a command prompt and type "Ping www.google.com" and press enter to see your times. Here are my times:
Minimum=30ms, Maximum=31ms, Average=30ms

Aside from the fact that it operates just like a DOS attack your totally right that CMD is the only corrcet way to run an ACTUALL ping test and not an approximation of one.

If you add "-t" to the CMD ping line you will start an infinite ping test and should help give a more rounded average result.

(stop the test by exiting CMD)

Lab_Mouse

ping of 26ms average to www.google.ie

8meg eircom

Mac daddy

10ms against google.ie today its been okay for once with Digiweb

Bill-e

hightower1 wrote: »

(stop the test by exiting CMD)

Ctrl + C will also jump you out

MarkY91

on command prompt i got an average of 15ms ping :):)

Kersmash

Enigma IE

hightower1 wrote: »

Aside from the fact that it operates just like a DOS attack your totally right that CMD is the only corrcet way to run an ACTUALL ping test and not an approximation of one.

If you add "-t" to the CMD ping line you will start an infinite ping test and should help give a more rounded average result.

(stop the test by exiting CMD)

As hightower says, you really need to run more than 4 pings to get a proper sample and average. Either run a persistent ping or a specific number e.g.

ping www.google.ie -t (persistent)
ping -n 100 www.google.ie (count of 100)

Battleflag

Average = 34ms

Could be alot worse I suppose

Nuri Sahin

Currently,



Usually around 70ms at least. Will check when I get home.

hidinginthebush

Forgive me if I'm wrong, but isn't pinging google.ie going to give you different results to pinging the CoD (or whatever games) servers?

Thomasheen

Let's put it this way, you know when you search for a game on mw2 and at the top it shows searching for games <50ms, <60ms etc. i have to wait until it gets above 110ms before it puts me in a game. On speed test I average around 90ms

Nuri Sahin

If talking about MW2, then I'm fairly sure around the 100-200ms before I get into a game.

Ah the days where I was near always host. Good times.

hidinginthebush

Thomasheen wrote: »

Let's put it this way, you know when you search for a game on mw2 and at the top it shows searching for games <50ms, <60ms etc. i have to wait until it gets above 110ms before it puts me in a game. On speed test I average around 90ms

I get what you're saying, my point is just that (and I could be wrong here) the CoD servers are a lot further away than the google.ie ones, so posting up ping results from pinging gogle is a wasted exercise, as it gives no information on how long your ping will be when playing online. I'll do a ping later and see if this theory holds up, as I usually have to wait for a ping > 70ms to get into a game myself.

Edit: I just saw that somebody in the game is the host, there are no dedicated servers in MW2. So I suppose having a good ping for the game will depend on you being physically near the other players?

Enigma IE

hidinginthebush wrote: »

I get what you're saying, my point is just that (and I could be wrong here) the CoD servers are a lot further away than the google.ie ones, so posting up ping results from pinging gogle is a wasted exercise, as it gives no information on how long your ping will be when playing online. I'll do a ping later and see if this theory holds up, as I usually have to wait for a ping > 70ms to get into a game myself.

You are right, a better 'test' would be to ping the COD servers themselves. However doing a test ping to www.google.ie is a useful indicator and a valid test of latency (round-trip times) on your circuit.

Simon Adebisi

Would the fact that i live in munster be stopping my score from being an A?

hidinginthebush

I just did a -n 100 ping onto google.ie in command prompt, ended up with:

min: 8ms
max: 30ms
average: 11ms

Still have to wait until games with a ping of <80ms before I get in though, frustrating!

Washington Irving

Eircom 8 meg



Getting the same results with the command prompt. Meh, not too bad

Thomasheen

Do I win the internet?

x43r0

Great stuff. Was >150ms the other day and spent a little while on the phone to Sky - a technician for once as opposed to the call centre operators with the rehearsed scripts

iMuse

Not the greatest but not the worst either, don't know how anyone could play on a ping much higher.

Nuri Sahin

So, from home -

Thomasheen wrote: »

Do I win the internet?

No.

Mr. Rager

I raise you...





















not really me thank God

hightower1

hidinginthebush wrote: »

I just did a -n 100 ping onto google.ie in command prompt, ended up with:

min: 8ms
max: 30ms
average: 11ms

Still have to wait until games with a ping of <80ms before I get in though, frustrating!

Everyone should bear in mind that testing your ping from your comp to anywhere on the net is a good rule stick for QOS on your comps connection , routing and bandwidth BUT with the way COD is set up thats all it is... a rule stick.

Take what your saying for example, while your cmd test will show good average ping times to google bear in mind pinging google.ie will e testing your tcp settings frm comp through your wlan - from there to your modem to headend including routing / bandwidth / snr levels etc. Hence your discrepancy between your cmd pings and average ping time on COD games.

Clearest eg of this is that there is no game on cod with a ping level set lower than 50ms. The reason for this is that the global average ping would be in or around 30-40ms (basd on most early / mid level bb infrastructures) so set the bar slightly above the average then artificially slow everyone to 50ms to make the playing field as even as poss. Even though you may be able connect with others (based on geographical location and time of day) that have a ping less than 50 ms theservers are looking to get the most people together that can also be adjusted correctly to level them out whilst minimizing server load from the action of leveling them out.

Its basically setting up a race and assigning appropriate handicaps to each runner bsed on their performance to give a level field for all. There is no point adding someone with a real world ping of 10ms to a game of people with a real world ping of 100ms. The servers need to constantly slow the packets for that one player whilst monitoring the rest to ensure someones connection doest suddenly get much better, lowering their ping and giving an unfair advantage. It will look for the closest group of naturally occurring ping times and gather them together as it means less computing power if they are naturally close times from player to player.

There are ways around this also like attempting to artificially create large amounts of traffic on your network giving the servers the impression that your naturally occurring ping is higher than what it actually is, when the game starts you then stop flooding the network and in turn your ping dramatically gets better leaving you with an unfair response time. If the servers are working correctly and monitoring traffic well they should see this and kick you to another game with an average ping for other players more on par with yours. Worth bearing in mind there will be a grace time in that monitoring to allow for non user interference with the ping like SNR variance for example.


In short while your ping may be poor or great on non dedicated server games there is no real control over this relation to your game as so much of the variable calculation is handled by the server rule set.

hidinginthebush

Thanks for that! I don't really get networking and all that, but had a suspicion it wasn't as simple as checking your ping time. Lot of interesting information in that post, cheers man!

gcgirl

Leeg17 wrote: »

PPPPPPPPPIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGG

(ie very long)

Usually 150ms

Ditto

Nuri Sahin

fjsanchez wrote: »

I raise you...





















not really me thank God

Saw that thread. Poor guy.

ugglasdav

Soby

fjsanchez wrote: »

I raise you...




















not really me thank God

Jesus thats hard to look at.So graphic .Hate to see it in this day and age...:P

Lol ade your upload is nearly faster than your download speed :P

Soby

Kells...

Jev/N

New connection!

Leeg17

Jev/N wrote: »

New connection!

Host pro anyone? Enjoy

Thomasheen

Jev/N wrote: »

New connection!

Im jelly

everlast75

We've no access to UPC out in the outback which is apparently where I live, so stuck with Errorcom for the last number of years. Consistant but slow internet speed and terrible customer service.

Signed up with Vodafone (for a "guaranteed" increase in internet speed).. should kick in in the next few days. Any sh*te outta them and it'll be straight back to Eircom..

hightower1

Leeg17 wrote: »

Host pro anyone? Enjoy

Not really, he would be undercut by anyone with a better consistent ping so if someone joined the game with a 10mb line but a consistent ping of say 10ms then they 'd be host for sure.

Bandwidth for gaming isnt a priority, in fact anything above 3mb will only actually be used but your ping is top dog, lower ping always wins out over bandwidth for server rules in gaming.

Seamus LFC

PerrinV2

I hate you Seamus

hightower1

Now THATS a good gaming connection right there, next to no jitter and a nice low ping. Excellent.

Thomasheen

And it's with vodafone which is strange. I never heard anything too great about their internet. You must live in their headquaters

hightower1

Thomasheen wrote: »

And it's with vodafone which is strange. I never heard anything too great about their internet. You must live in their headquaters

With ADSL its all about how close you are to the exchange, judging by those stats he'd fair close