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.