- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: noobnoobnoob
Bet none of you have had a ping this low :P
Oh noes! The score screen has been haxxord!
I've had a ping in the mid 8000s.
Okay, here we go with the definition-up-your-blam!-:
Ping: The time, in milliseconds, that a packet of data takes to travel from your machine, through your modem, across the internet to the host, through the host's modem, into the hosts machine, and back.
Ping is affected by two separate things:
Bit rate: This is the maximum data transfer speed of your connection, measured in kilo bits per second (kbps) or kilo Bytes per second (kB/s).
Distance: This is the physical distance the packet must travel, including cable connections, telephone lines (dial-up) and satellite links. This is what most affects your ping, but a very low bit rate will greatly reduce performance.
I got all that from various things I've learned, info from Wikipedia, and various assumptions. If anything is wrong, point it out.