How to lower the average ping?

[PooMan UK]

pal I used to run a few CS servers with a few mates. Ping has very little to do with how well you do (unless you have an exceedingly high ping - which you don't) it all has to do with latency.
Think of it like this .... if your friend lives 2 doors down from the server and has a ping of say 1 then he should in theory win every game, but it doesn't work like this as the servers account for vast differences in distance to a degree.
If you turn off all or some of the heavy graphics and blood etc. then you will get a better latency. Try looking for some config files that will give you a better latency, the game wont look so pretty but you will have a better gaming experience and your play style will improve.
Remember there are ways to mask your real ping that will show others that you are getting a ping of below 5, these are normally cheats and most secure servers or good admins will be able to figure this out and either kick you or even worse ban you from these servers.
Join some of the relative gaming forums to to see how to the others get the best performance, you will be surprised at how easy it is to do without resorting to cheating

 

[Richardc269]

Yes anything up to 30 ping is INSANELY FAST. Most games are playable very well up to 60-80 with unnoticeable issue. I virtually never see anyone at 5-10, they would have to be living in the same city as the servers or something. May people have to play with pings from 150-300ms and THEN it may start to show some noticeable degradation in reaction speed.

Anyone would (should) be insanely happy with a 30ms ping.

What he says is pretty much right. 25-30 ping on any multiplayer game is average. 80-100+ ping is where the game will start to lag. Your 25 ping won't go any lower. You don't need to be concerned about it. It's when it starts hitting 60-100 is when you should start worrying. Your game's not gonna lag on you. 25-50 ping is pretty normal. Unless you have Dial-Up or DSL, then you're gonna be getting 90 on average.

 

[omereilon]

Here is a picture from a online game (Counter Strike 1.6).
look a the right side of the table and you see the ping for all player.
My name on the game is vG-A.Inspire you can see that my ping is the highest on the server!


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[Richardc269]

You're NOT going to start lagging with a low ping of 25. You really shouldn't worry about it.

 

[omereilon]

But i want a ping like the others... why i have the highest ping? how to lower it? to 10 or 15? like the others...

 

[M1GU31]

But i want a ping like the others... why i have the highest ping? how to lower it? to 10 or 15? like the others...

Did you even try the method that I posted ?

 

[Slartybart]

well, I want a lot of things. Folks here have given you a lot of information and things to try. Don't get hung up on the ping number.

Try a few suggestions and see where that gets you. Pooman UK and M1GU31 - heap good medicine

 

[omereilon]

why do you want something lower? That ping is pretty normal, most you could do is change your DNS settings. Can't do much unless you get a better isp. 15-25ping is like almost no difference,it's like less then a ms difference. Here test your DNS settings with namebench Downloads - namebench - Open-source DNS Benchmark Utility - Google Project Hosting Download the one for windows.
Do a network connection test on Speedtest.net - The Global Broadband Speed Test then when done note it down
Then run namebench and click start benchmark and when the test is over is should bring up a internet page showing you the best dns severs for your connection.

Open Control Panel > Click Network and Internet > Network and Sharing Center > Click Change Adapter Settings,right click local area connection,select Internet protocol version 4 then select properties then tick use the following DNS severs addresses

Then enter the dns best chosen for you that name bench gave you exactly for primary and secondary then press ok and reboot. Remember do the the test with namebench first then enter these numbers for your dns were I told you .
Select the connection for which you want to configure
Then redo the test at Speedtest.net - The Global Broadband Speed Test and you may or may not see a difference, it may even be the same or a tiny bit more speed.

And when the namebench test will end?

 

[Slartybart]

Wow, you have better times than I do. Hmmmm,

 

[omereilon]

please help me i dont understand what M1GU31 said me to do.
what to do with the speedtest?

 

[F5ing]

Just remember those values from speedtest and now run namebench.

 

[omereilon]

but the benchmark is running up to 10 minutes and nothing happen... i dont get any internet page...

 

[PooMan UK]

Pal please remember it doesn't matter what speed tests you do you ain't gonna increase your speed that will make much or any difference. your connection speed is how it is.
You will only be able to control your latency by changing your game settings and this is still not going to make you the elite game player that you hope to be.
This is why game servers control your max/min speed connection, otherwise it would be unfair and unplayable as all those with super fast connection would own.
You haven't said whether you are getting any lag in game? But if you are it doesn't seem that your ping is the cause of this as you have an acceptable ping rate

 

[omereilon]

I know it. but i dont want to control my internet speed... i want to control on how the ping looks not the lags
But i did this benchmark and i set the dns ip and i have a same ping...

 

[M1GU31]

I just said that with speedtest that you test it to see your connection then after applying the new dns settings you can restest and see if your connection got better or not like if your download and upload went up and your ping went down. That's all that I was saying with speedtest,happy to explain if you have any other questions regarding my instructions to clear any confusion.Also the namebench test ends when a IE window pops up showing your results and you should also see some numbers moving on the bottom left of the namebench window

If the ping stays the same then there's not much you can do but go to a different sever to play on that is closer to your area.
Anyways your speeds are very good,hell I wish I got those speeds,I get 5.5Mb/s download with a 64Mb/s upload and a ping of 26. I believe that getting a provider with a higher upload speed might lower it a bit but I cant promise, whats your friends upload speed,his is possibly higher and that's why he gets a slightly lower ping.

 

[pparks1]

Ok, here is a ping to Google

Pinging Google [74.125.225.114] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 74.125.225.114: bytes=32 time=70ms TTL=53
Reply from 74.125.225.114: bytes=32 time=75ms TTL=53
Reply from 74.125.225.114: bytes=32 time=94ms TTL=53
Reply from 74.125.225.114: bytes=32 time=72ms TTL=53

You can see I run between 70 and 94ms.

Now, let's tracert to google.


Tracing route to Google [74.125.225.114]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 12 ms 11 ms 14 ms 192.168.1.1
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 25 ms 14 ms 15 ms 10.15.25.154
4 27 ms 19 ms 22 ms 10.15.24.62
5 28 ms 27 ms 14 ms 10.15.8.49
6 41 ms 30 ms 41 ms core1-0-0-8.lga.net.google.com [198.32.118.39]
7 43 ms 27 ms 30 ms 72.14.232.94
8 49 ms 46 ms 37 ms 209.85.252.2
9 93 ms 81 ms 49 ms 72.14.239.93
10 90 ms 153 ms 82 ms 209.85.242.208
11 82 ms 87 ms 88 ms 209.85.240.150
12 84 ms 75 ms 81 ms ord08s08-in-f18.1e100.net [74.125.225.114]

Trace complete.

So, you can see the first hop, the 12ms to 192.168.1.1 is my computer, going over wireless to my router. So, out of the 70-80ms to google, only about 12ms is within my house. Everything else happens once it's left my router and is out in the Internet.

As others have said, sub 30ms pings to a game server is excellent. Getting to 10ms not going to help you. It's 20ms. That's a tiny amount of time.

 

[M1GU31]

but the benchmark is running up to 10 minutes and nothing happen... i dont get any internet page...

Make sure your pressing run benchmark and not just letting it sit there when not pressing anything

 

[F5ing]

...I get 5.5Mb/s download with a 64Mb/s upload and a ping of 26....

Got yourself a pretty good upload speed there!! :shock:

 

[M1GU31]

...I get 5.5Mb/s download with a 64Mb/s upload and a ping of 26....

Got yourself a pretty good upload speed there!! :shock:

lol i meant 0.64 my bad typing error :roflmao: