344 PING

[TexasS]

Hi guys, I'm just wondering I've just finished a match with DangerousDick and DangerousDick(2) both had 344 ping and some how they won + played really good. Does anyone know how they could be playing this good with such ping? I was playing last night with just under 200 ping and the ball was like a elastic band.

[DavyErni]

lan and wifi lose signal strenght after 4 hours . always reset your router before you play online games . your ping will be much lower then . if they had 100mbit internet or 1gigabit internet ping doesn't matter anymore ping just means how much your pc will knock on the servers door to be let in . you can alo lower the steam ping settings . to 250 instead of 5000 it is at the bottom of the steam settings under (in game) section

[Brawndo - The Thirst Mutilator]

Playing with a high ping is actually not that hard, as long as there is no packet loss. You also get used to playing with high ping pretty fast, so that could explain why they didn't have problems.
If you experienced rubberbanding with 200 ping it's possible that you also had some packet loss, which usually has a much more severe impact than a high ping. Lag compensation might have played a role too, but that's just a wild guess...

G33M3R původně napsal:

lan and wifi lose signal strenght after 4 hours . always reset your router before you play online games . your ping will be much lower then

I guess you mean restarting, resetting will reset the settings to default (as the name implies).
Also mind that wired and wireless networks won't just simply lose signal strength after some hours and signal strength doesn't really impact your latency, unless packets need to be retransmitted (which doesn't apply to RL).

G33M3R původně napsal:

ping just means how much your pc will knock on the servers door to be let in

No, ping is used to measure latency.

G33M3R původně napsal:

you can alo lower the steam ping settings . to 250 instead of 5000 it is at the bottom of the steam settings under (in game) section

That won't affect RL at all. This setting is for steam's server browser and limits the ping attempts per minute, which is only relevant for games that use the steam server browser to begin with...