Why does PING show so large?
I noticed that the ping measurements for the servers I usually use (east coast) are lately in the 390ms range, rather than 33ms range. Quite a difference. Yet, it doesn't seem like that is accurate....
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Again, I am seeing Data Center: South Carolina - GCE1 (31-822ms 0%PL)
When I look at the list of data centers to choose from, they all show the high value and they are all very high.
Why the wide range being reported for? How should I interpret this?
@MrGreenWithAGun Data centers that are near me are usually saying they're high ping, while servers in Japan are somehow less laggy and I get a better ping. Sometimes logging on, it says the nearest server is 1,000-2,000 in ping but then goes down when I reload the game.
- @Midnight9746 Strangely they show 29mm - 33ms today.
I am just curious what the larger number represents, because that is in the list with the various servers.- @MrGreenWithAGun Well, considering that servers get DDOS'ed often, and players are exploiting and glitching the game to cause the server to crash or kick players, (in a non-DDOSing way), we're most likely seeing the ping of those servers. That's my guess at least.
@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.@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.
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