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Paintball 2: The Game => Help and Support => Resolved Help & Support => Topic started by: Skimmer on April 02, 2006, 07:52:26 AM

Title: What is PING?
Post by: Skimmer on April 02, 2006, 07:52:26 AM

What is PING?

Title: Re: PING
Post by: lekky on April 02, 2006, 08:25:06 AM

ping shows you the distance from the client (your computer) to the server (the game you are playing in).

so the lower the ping the quicker the game responds to your actions, such as shooting, etc.

generally the faster your internet connection, the lower your ping.

Title: Re: PING
Post by: jitspoe on April 02, 2006, 11:35:09 AM

Actually, it's the time, in milliseconds, it takes data to reach the server, not the physical distance to the server.

Title: Re: PING
Post by: lekky on April 02, 2006, 01:00:17 PM

thats what i meant jits, time distance.

Title: Re: PING
Post by: Eiii on April 02, 2006, 01:57:42 PM

Time != distance.

Title: Re: PING
Post by: lekky on April 02, 2006, 09:06:35 PM

of course. but:

the distance measured in time between them = time distance

Title: Re: PING
Post by: b00nlander on April 03, 2006, 11:26:48 AM

time distance... as in lightyears? :P

Title: Re: PING
Post by: lekky on April 03, 2006, 11:31:49 AM

bah, shush now :P

Title: Re: PING
Post by: jitspoe on April 03, 2006, 09:31:08 PM

Lost in translation, I think.

Title: Re: PING
Post by: Eiii on April 03, 2006, 10:27:12 PM

A movie is not the solution to our confusion, jits.

Title: Re: PING
Post by: sKIMMER on April 10, 2006, 07:37:24 AM

THANKS  

Title: Re: PING
Post by: sKIMMER on April 10, 2006, 07:38:59 AM

AND ITS A CRAP MOVIE TOO!

Title: Re: PING
Post by: Lime on July 06, 2006, 01:09:50 PM

There's relatively little relation between time and distance in this case; the main factor is connection speed as jitspoe said.  You could live down the street from a server on a dial-up connection and somebody on the other side of the world on a DSL/Cable connection would have a lower ping than you.

Title: Re: PING
Post by: Eiii on July 06, 2006, 06:08:37 PM

Yeah, please don't revive old threads.

Title: Re: PING
Post by: Smokey on July 08, 2006, 11:22:46 AM

AND ITS A CRAP TOPIC TOO!

Title: Re: PING
Post by: Spydie on July 09, 2006, 08:52:43 PM

CAPS ARE CRAP TOO.