As of late I really take the Pings displayed with a grain of salt. It was either today or yesterday I was playing with someone with a ping in the 50's teleporting all over the place and other shenanigans. The scoreboard is either flawed or there's some other sort of network issue in play.
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Joost
Post subject: Re: 0 Ping
Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 8:36 am
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Ping and jumpyness are not the same thing.
Ping is the average time it takes for a message to get from you to the other player and back. Teleporting players however are caused by jitter: variation in the time messages take. For example, we have seen routers that wait for a couple of messages to come in, and then send them all out once. So it is possible to have a relatively low ping and still have jumpy characters. It is also possible to have really high ping and still have everything look smooth, if all the messages take the same long time to travel.
squallleonhartff
Post subject: Re: 0 Ping
Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 9:37 pm
Joined: Sat Jun 09, 2012 2:42 pm Posts: 32
Baconbits wrote:
squallleonhartff wrote:
my ping has never been above 0 no joke i dont know why but i very rearly have lag
You will never see your own ping at anything but 0. Thats simply how it works.
well does anyone know they reason that is or if there going to fix it or not
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Baconbits
Post subject: Re: 0 Ping
Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 10:41 pm
Joined: Sun May 20, 2012 3:59 pm Posts: 1426
squallleonhartff wrote:
well does anyone know they reason that is or if there going to fix it or not
That's not broken. That's how it's SUPPOSED to be. To YOU, your ping should always be zero. Pinging your own machine will always be zero.
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Baconbits
Post subject: Re: 0 Ping
Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 10:43 pm
Joined: Sun May 20, 2012 3:59 pm Posts: 1426
As Joost said "Ping is the average time it takes for a message to get from you to the other player and back." There should be zero delay at "messaging" yourself.
