PPL who understand ping/latency in here pls

[serpico]

Lagless helps slightly but whats the diff between ping and latency?

I've a 160 ping but a 240 pinger was beating me easily the other night?!!!! how come?
How can i reduce latency?

serpico:E :imubash: cool eh?

[serpico]

up the top you go you scallywag:D

[T-Bag]

Originally posted by serpico


I've a 160 ping but a 240 pinger was beating me easily the other night?!!!! how come?



LOL that bit made me laugh... u make it sound like its impossible to beat anybody who has a lower ping.
80 ping doesnt make THAT much diff..

Ping and latency are virtually the same thing as far as i know.. some1 else will prob explain better..

[[ELE]Dr. Dre]

ping is just how long it takes your computer to send information to, and receive from, the server u r playing on....
latency is the same basically, its the effect of the ping.

And are you stupid...ping doesnt make all the difference, the other player is obviously better than u.

[Sadist]

Nah there aint much difference between players with pings around 120+ but i find when you come up against a sub 100 pinger whos decent u start having problems. Well I do :D

[metatron]

what you actually want to know is the difference between speed and thoughput.

y'see multiplayer games do not send huge amounts of data down the wire so a high connection speed is not required. but the game needs to get the info to the server and get a response quickly

but the ping measures how quickly a small packet of info gets to, and returns from the server.

this is why reducing your connection speed to between 40000 and 48000 can improve your ping. less chance of errors being send.

[J Stalin]

Assuming you are talking about latency, as in how HL measures connection speed, I believe that ping is the time it takes to send a packet of data from your modem to the server. Latency, however, also adds in the time it takes for the server and your computer to process the packet of data. This is why you can have a ping of 0 if you're on the server, since the packet doesn't have to go anywhere, which takes 0 seconds. Your latency, however, would not be 0, since the computer takes time to process the data. This is why latency is always higher than ping. In my opinion it is better than ping, since it takes into account how good peoples' computers are, as well as their connections.

Hope this helps!