Playable pings

Stormfox1020

Im on 56k at the moment, with a ping of around 250 and i find the sort of lag i get is bullets dont hit on time etc etc. But with BB you have no lag, so what sort of pings do you need to have to have no lag at all? and will any bb service provide these sort of pings? Sorry if it has been asked before.

Woden

my eircom bb provides pings of about 20-30ms on irish servers for battlefield and i find thats absolutetly fine, similarly i have no issues with pings of up to 50ms on english servers.

actually i get more lag from the likes of punkbuster when it decides to connect to the master server and when i only have half a gig of memory in the system

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Giblet

ping != lag

The connection itself is being choked so it lags for a second to keep up.

Broadband will have a bigger pipe, so more data can get through. The pings are a bonus.

BKtje

PLayable pings differ from game to game. It all depends on the netcode.
As has been said lower pings are great but if you are getting lagged (choked) the whole time its pointless.

KdjaCL

120 or above is unplayable ie you at a disadvantage to others a noticeable one.
Anything les is playable but some games have worse netcode than others so 120 is a general number .

kdjac

Placebo

55 ms, same as my speed 55 kb



thats counter strike, on european servers.
irish = 30-40

Gonzo

20ms to 35ms on irish server, some english servers are almost as good such as axia, 4u-servers.co.uk and some others were pings of 28-38ms are possible ingame, the majority of english servers such as jolt and uk2 give 37ms to 55ms ingame so they are all perfectly playable

The Real B-man

i play Halo on a ping of 200 grand most of the time again depends on server UT 2004 has great net code plays on 33.k

The Real B-man

Originally posted by Placebo
55 ms, same as my speed 55 kb



thats counter strike, on european servers.
irish = 30-40

you get 55K out of a 56k modem WOW! you live like 5 metres from the exchange or sumat? i only mage 45.2k - 46.6k:mad: roll on cheap bb

Giblet

I'm pretty sure he never said he had a 56k modem

Gonzo

i think he means a ping of 55ms which equals his good download speed of 55k/sec, obviously he is upset coz his ping shouldnt be a similar number to his download speed which shouldnt be the case, his ping should be 25ms - 45ms to Irish and most uk servers.

zAbbo

so many clueless comments

BlitzKrieg

recently...




I found an old home camera tape of mine so i threw it on to find myself in my younger years messing with our family home video camera (usual mooners in negative etc) but at one point i started playing CS on my old computer. It was beta 3 at the time (or beta 4) and i was surprised to notice that i played the game at a constant ping of 300 (nowadays i have it down to 80) but what shocked me more was that i was well able to play and i was part of the clan (hence my friend was filming my clan match as some advert for my sex appeal or something????) but wha really p*sses me off is that i seem to be doing better in that 300 ping in an american server then i do today in most european servers, i dont get triple kills (in under 2 seconds) in siege no more [prob cause no one plays siege no more and nobody walk in a straight line.]


just a interesting (or not) story to add to throw the whole term PLAYABLE PING...into doubt.

Stormfox1020

While i lived in the USA, i had around a 20-100 ping to any Medal of Honor US server, and found all to be great with no slowdown what so ever even on 32 people servers. That was a cable internet connection (2mb). My original intention was to find out how ADSL can cope with common day games. But if you get a 30-50 ping to Jolt or any other UK servers im sure lag wont be an issue with most games?

KdjaCL

Unless the server is crap then everyone lags regardless of ping as server aint pereforming well.


kdjac

BKtje

Thing is a 300ping a few years ago wasnt all that much worse than a lot of people had. I had a ping of about 250 to UK (as i said) and cos most people in the UK were modemers too it wasnt too bad. If i were to try it today (even tho im much better at the game now) id get absolutel waisted

monument

Must bring my PC to the office over the weekend, I think the ping was something lese then 20 playing BFV on navan. (Still haven’t got around to connecting the house and office :dunno:)

Gonzo

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~spaz/hldata/eqx.htm

Check out those fantastic pings from clan matchs back in 1999

TacT

Originally posted by Gonzo
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~spaz/hldata/eqx.htm

Check out those fantastic pings from clan matchs back in 1999

haha, those were the days alright

Placebo

i think he means a ping of 55ms which equals his good download speed of 55k/sec, obviously he is upset coz his ping shouldnt be a similar number to his download speed which shouldnt be the case, his ping should be 25ms - 45ms to Irish and most uk servers.

binG0 !
thats for clarifying !