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Seasoned Ace

Re: Why does PING show so large?

@MrGreenWithAGun29-33 means there is some "jitter" of around 4ms on that connection to the selected datacenter.
important for your gameplay is the actual ping to the gameserver you've been send to, not the datacenter ! you can either make that visible in the settings (Performance Overlay or smth.) or use networktools to grab the gameserver ip and test it on some traceroute tool like ping plotter. bad ping/connection to the datacenter can result in not getting games at all or troubles to leave a gamesession.

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MrGreenWithAGun
Rising Ace
2 years ago
@r1ggedgame
I can see the first number being the shortest ping and the second number being the longest ping. But it doesn't feel like the longest ping is actually something of concern.

It would make more sense if we saw the average ping, which even with 33ms - 800ms, would probably be more like 60ms. I never experience lengthy periods of 800ms ping. While it may be detected, it isn't worth mentioning as it confuses players what they can expect to experience.
Or better, the medium ping, which would probably be 39ms in a 33ms - 800ms scenario.