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Subject: Internet connection and ping.
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Can anybody tell me what should be internet conn. in KBPS to get a ping of 200-250 in halo multiplayer.Thank you for your courtesy.

  • 02.25.2006 7:47 AM PDT
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Your ping is not only dependent on what type of connection you have, but also your location according to the server. Say your in florida and your connected to a server in china or something, you would have really high ping compared to if you were connected to a server say 10 mins away from you. Ping will vary from server to server

I have an 8mb cable connection and my ping ranges from anywhere between 20 all the way up to 300 in some servers.

  • 02.25.2006 8:14 AM PDT
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Yeah, once you reach about 8mb, it's all about your location, but more importantly it's about your location on the world wide web. I'll use the uni of teesside servers as an example (they run the #7 most popular CS:S server on the planet). I'm in Newcastle, and the servers in teesside are 40 miles down the road. Because they're run by a northern university, it's on a network called "NORMAN", the NORthern area Metropilitan Network. This is a 1 gigabit network and is connected to another network called "JANET", the Joint Academic NETwork, this has varying speeds, up to 8 gigabit. The only problem is that it only connects to other networks in London, so my data has to go to central newcastle, down Telewest's main backbone to London, where it switches to JANET, goes back up to central Newcastle, where it switches to NORMAN and goes to middlesbrough and the uni of teesside. On average this takes a mere 45ms. However, a friend of mine 2 miles down the road at Newcastle Uni gets a ping of 6ms because he is already on NORMAN, so he is essentially connected directly to the server, it might as well be a 30 mile long ethernet cable.

  • 02.25.2006 8:30 AM PDT
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does your OS affect ping? like when you use win 2k against someone using XP?

  • 02.25.2006 7:07 PM PDT
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Posted by: H Runnin Riot H
does your OS affect ping? like when you use win 2k against someone using XP?


no, though i can't for the life of me, work out why anyone would use the traversty of an os that is 2k.

[Edited on 2/25/2006]

  • 02.25.2006 7:31 PM PDT

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Your ping is not only dependent on what type of connection you have, but also your location according to the server. Say your in florida and your connected to a server in china or something, you would have really high ping compared to if you were connected to a server say 10 mins away from you. Ping will vary from server to server

I live in Florida...there are like no servers near me...so I have to live with High Ping.

  • 02.25.2006 7:46 PM PDT