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What is ping?
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Banned  Joined: Fri Apr 06, 2007 4:31 pm Posts: 367 Location: no u 
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 What is ping?When I play Battlefield I sometimes get kicked for having high ping. What's ping? And Latency too?
I Google'd it and Wikipedia'd it but I didn't get an explanation. |
| Sun Feb 24, 2008 2:02 am |
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 Joined: Sun Nov 25, 2007 6:29 am Posts: 400
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Re: What is ping? Ping is the amount of time it takes for the computer to hit the server and back. I'm guessing. Or another word for it is lag.
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| Sun Feb 24, 2008 2:09 am |
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REAL AMERICAN HERO  Joined: Sat Jan 27, 2007 10:25 pm Posts: 5655
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Re: What is ping? Latency is the time a transmission takes to travel between your computer and the server/host/whatever.
It's not connected to speed; you can have a massive download speed, but a low latency, and it won't do you any good. Ping, in videogames, is just the latency between the player and the server. If you have a low latency, then your game information needs less common updating, meaning that the overall game experience is lower. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping_%28video_games%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latency_%28engineering%29 |
| Sun Feb 24, 2008 2:10 am |
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Banned Joined: Fri Apr 06, 2007 4:31 pm Posts: 367 Location: no u
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Re: What is ping? K thx. Question answered, problem solved.
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| Sun Feb 24, 2008 2:20 am |
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