What is ping?
Sometimes in online games the player's character responds to the player's actions late or the picture on the screen starts to twitch, or the game is interrupted because of some error. All this indicates that the user has high ping. What is it and what does it depend on?
To explain what ping is better, for example. When the user starts the Internet and online gaming, it automatically sends some information (packets) to a remote game server or to other computers. Ping is the time during which any particular piece of information (packet) gets to the server or to another computer, and from him will come the answer. So it turns out that the lower the ping the user - the better for him, as the time spent processing send and receive information is reduced to a minimum. When you have high ping, then, respectively, the game starts to slow down, the picture on the screen much longer is updated or game character longer executes the user's requests.
What determines ping?
What affects your ping in online games? For this reason there are several different opinions. First, it is believed that it depends directly on the speed of the used Internet. On the one hand this statement is true, and none on the other. For example, if Internet speed is not enough, then, of course, the packages will be much longer to be transferred and to act accordingly, the game will slow down. On the other hand, if Internet speed is enough for the game, the ping can still be high. It may also depend on the quality and stability of communication. Secondly, the ping depends on the distance of the server. Perhaps this is the most true statement, since if the server will be on you in the immediate vicinity, the response time, that is, the ping will be even less than 5ms. If the server is located, for example, in the United States of America, and you are in Russia, then the ping will reach 300 MS, and even more. Finally, the ping depends on the load of the Internet channel. If you're running a torrent or you just download some program from the Internet, running various network programs and at the same time, you play in the online game, then all this will be this will consume your traffic, and ping in the game is large enough.
In order to know the ping, open a command prompt (in Windows 2000, XP, 7 - this can be done through the menu "start". In Windows 8 - press the combination of keys Win+R, then in the window that appears, write CMD and press Enter).At the command prompt, type the command Ping and then IP address or domain name, which will be measured ping.
