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just a quick question about joining public servers: in looking for a game, is high ping or low ping best? and what the hell is ping anyways?! lol dont wanna sound like an idiot, but i never knew what that meant, even though ive been playin online games for 2 years. any1 have an answer? thanks
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Wow.. ok.. Well I'll be the brave one to answer this question, why, cause I think its a damn shame to have anyone go through life not knwoing what a ping is.
Ping is the time it takes to send a packet (a packet is an amount of bytes being sent through the connection, Think of it like sending a simple notepad file) To the host and back to your PC (PS2, Xbox and all that applies as well, they all are basicly a computer of sorts).
So when a ping says 50, It means 50 milliseconds. It takes 50 milliseconds to send a packet from your house to the host and back.
Therefore the SMALLER the PING the BETTER. When pings are too high, Thats when lag accures. Now go read the other thread titled "What is Lag"."POWER!!! UNLIMITED POOWWWEEEER!!!!!!
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hahaha thanks ratix. im not stupid, but i never figured that one out. okay i kinda guessed smaller was better but thanks for reassuring me.Comment
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