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This may sound like a stupid question, but what is Ping? When I go to download something it tells me the ping of where I'm getting it from. Is it better to have a high ping or a low ping? Does this affect download time?
Thanks for your help,
Namostar (Swish)
Thanks for your help,
Namostar (Swish)
this is far to early for me but who cares,
the ping!
well, no this is not like pinging an elastic band.
Something that you really want with pings is for it to be as low as possible. Buy the best modem you can or get cable or DSL line. I have a crappy modem that I got with my time pc, it is 56k but i get pings like 300-400 and my friend got a diamond 56e and he got pings of around 100. If you want a good ping get DSL and you will get like 3-10 which is great and things happen really quickly.
The ping hear i am talking about was when i was playing online games with a mate and i had crap pings and he had good pings and he killed me first every time. So things happen more quickly with low pings. This is not just online gaming you can use it with nearly anything in computers or life.
ok,
p.s get DSL or cable, ISDN quite good to, not 14.4k modem
the ping!
well, no this is not like pinging an elastic band.
Something that you really want with pings is for it to be as low as possible. Buy the best modem you can or get cable or DSL line. I have a crappy modem that I got with my time pc, it is 56k but i get pings like 300-400 and my friend got a diamond 56e and he got pings of around 100. If you want a good ping get DSL and you will get like 3-10 which is great and things happen really quickly.
The ping hear i am talking about was when i was playing online games with a mate and i had crap pings and he had good pings and he killed me first every time. So things happen more quickly with low pings. This is not just online gaming you can use it with nearly anything in computers or life.
ok,
p.s get DSL or cable, ISDN quite good to, not 14.4k modem
It a lower ping means faster downloads and a more responsive server. For example, when I ping Ukdiscussions.com, I get 281. This is pretty good, but not great. A good game ping speed is around 70-100, a home network pings at around 5 and if you ping yourself it's less than 1. All times are in milliseconds.
Your ping (known as "lag" on games) is the amount of time that it takes a packet of data to go from your PC to the location that you are pinging and back again.
This means that it is better to have a low ping, because it takes less time for data to travel between the computers, and depends on the speed of the connection on the other end and the line conditions over the route that the data is travelling along.
This means that it is better to have a low ping, because it takes less time for data to travel between the computers, and depends on the speed of the connection on the other end and the line conditions over the route that the data is travelling along.