Can any one tell me what ping is?

[macc1264]

During Call of Duty PC during multiplayer games you have a ping number ........what is a ping and why is having a high ping bad?

[Nettle]

It's a measurement of latency[en.wikipedia.org].

[|MwD| Razor]

high ping is bad, it either can mean that you're far away from the server or that the host has bad internet...
ping is you're connection to the server low ping is good.
that is about all i know about ping..

[macc1264]

Thanks.....I should have known that.....

[macc1264]

So, playing on a wireless router is probably the root cause for the high ping on line ?

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If your ping is high, it means your connection lags by a few milliseconds behind everyone else in that game. This can work toward your advantage or against. The further you are from the official gaming servers and the less money your parents have, the higher your ping. Hence, Americans often boot players from Finland due to high ping because of distance.

[macc1264]

Thanks......

[honey pack]

Usually it can be fixed by unplugging and replugging the computer a several times.

[Vitdom]

Ping is a measurement term used for the delay(usually in milliseconds) when you send a request of an immediate response to a remote network host and time the duration of the traversal process, from the ping message being sent to the response being received again.

A low ping is good because you don't have to wait for responses and is more synchronized.

A high ping is bad because there is a long delay and have to wait, making it off-sync.

In multiplayer online games, a high ping will cause most of these effects:
* Player will not be synchronized with the rest of the game world state
* Due to Lag Compensation, you can shoot and kill another player in front of you because you aren't synchronized, when in fact the other player is around a corner and unable to see you
* When the player turns around a corner, others around the corner won't see the player until after the ping delay, but the player can see them (if you shoot them, they won't get hurt until after the delay because of the ping delay; they will have an equal chance of killing you once you appear for them, making the LAG very long)
* Very unstable and unpredictable movement and events regarding the player in general