What's your Ping?

#1 T3: 36 - 42 ms today
Im on a Mac and I set my RWIN to 66608, it seems to improve things some.i also turn off delayed acks. I use 'Cocktail' to alter the settings.

Can be a tad higher/lower some days. Im on the west coast.

I've run a T1 as well. I notice no difference. Same ol inconsistant Az. Same goes when I run a server (no ping).

Server ran great with 10 players at T1 usually. However, going to a T3 made the full server run even better

Here's a great site with modem tools & bandwidth speed tests:
www.dslreports.com/tools

Can any one tell me how to go about turning selective acks on? Im running OSX 10.2.6.

Az

#2 I have a 1.5 DSL connection. My Shockwave server pings today start around 94ms and go up to around 105ms.

FWIW, Homelan servers are the worst today (and generally usually at the bottom) at around 165ms, just above what appear to be some user servers (for hacked maps) at around 240ms.

The speakeasy test above shows my download speed to be currently 1.3mbps and my upload speed to be 128kbps...which is standard for DSL throttling the upload... I'm actually impressed considerign Verizoninformed us long ago we were well outside the listed distance from the node to be getting DSL at all.

#3 I have 18 ms with a 10 MEGbit line (SureWest)

- PREY

#4 512K ADSL from the UK: 150-200ms

#5 Anywheres from 65-100 on my t1....

#6 1 ms!

#7 About 60 to 90 ms.

ComCast cable link averaging 600-700K down and 250K up.

#8 Thanks for participating in the survey...

OK, explain this:

Lately I've had some slow pings on my T1 (200+ ms). During these times I checked speed using speakeasy (thanks for the post Az, this is much better than Cnet's meter).... my speed was 2500 K down and 1600 K up. When the network is happy, I get a much better connection (ping of 50-60 ms, speeds of 5000 K up/down!). Other than just bad luck, is there any way to explain the poor connection to TT servers? It's frustrating to have T1 speeds when surfing the net while having dial up speeds for TT!


Thanks,
LC50

#9 There's been an upgrade to our network, and now I have good 50 ms pings all day long (not just in the early morning). Now I'm out of excuses for those "doh! situations", unless I'm playing on the 'ol 56k modem from home. Soon I'll get a real job with real money and get a real cable/DSL connection...

Anyone else care to post their pings/connections?

LC50

#10 512K DSL from UK

CTF usually at the top with about 100-150ms
Shockwave 170-200ms
HomeLAN 200-250ms

Independant servers vary dramatically.

-Z-

#11 Coulsd someone tell me my ping? I have High Speed, and still lots of Lag??!??!!

#12 Hey Fil: you and only you can see your pings. Look in the lower right-hand corner in the game info box (map info, ping, etc.). Pings will vary according to the servers, time of day, solar flares, number of players in the game, and amount of gouda you eat. Pings are given in ms.

LC50

#13 Solar flares, lol...good one.

#14 Im on cable (3673 down/376 up) and I always ping between 60/70 on the shockwave servers. If you're having any problems, or suspect that your connection is bottlenecking somewhere, open up command prompt, and type "tracert " It helps. Also, make sure there are no background programs that suck bandwidth while running (AOL, Norton automatic update, etc) Also if you're pinging above 100 on dsl/cable and you cant figure out why, try running this Diagnostic tool. It should help a little.

~Baby Clax

p.s. sorry I never play anymore, but work beckons.

#15 Thanks Clax! Re: not playing--- you are missed. Take a coffee break and play a little scrum every once and a while... all work and no play make Baby Clax cranky.

LC50

#16 here is my ping test result. i got it from here www.whoisxy.com/
Pinging cooltamil.com [64.64.4.118] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 64.64.4.118: bytes=32 time=51ms TTL=52
Reply from 64.64.4.118: bytes=32 time=51ms TTL=52
Reply from 64.64.4.118: bytes=32 time=53ms TTL=52
Reply from 64.64.4.118: bytes=32 time=51ms TTL=52
Ping statistics for 64.64.4.118:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 51ms, Maximum = 53ms, Average = 51ms