There's no one ping to rule them all, but generally it's the latency of a
game packet from gamer to host and back. It could be a dedicated server or
a peer to peer game. The latter is more common (cheap bastards).
The #1 thing you can do to reduce latency is move closer to the server.
On Sat, Feb 1, 2025 at 3:50 PM Bill Prince <part15...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Since they're playing with someone else, I'm betting it has something to
> do with turnaround time with the gamer they're playing with?
>
>
> bp
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>
> On 2/1/2025 12:31 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
>
> Does anyone here speak gamer?
>
>
>
> What is the ping time displayed in some games? Someone will tell me it’s
> like 200 ms, but speedtest.net reports 15, and a command line ping
> reports 13 min, 15 avg, 20 max.
>
>
>
> I don’t know what to do with the numbers they quote from the game, they
> don’t correlate to anything I can measure.
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