ping and servers

[deakie]

heya,
what pings do jamaicans get when reaching american servers on any connection? would love to have some feedback on that.
also, any chance of getting some ip ady's for server in jam for ut2003, mohaa and bat 1942. would luv to see if i 999 coming down the cable. what about american servers, ay ip's there i can bounce on. ;D
i can still kick decent *** in new york and cali but would luv to see jam ping.
i got 800 on a philipino server on q3. :
thx

[wheelman]

what is this ping you guys are talkin about so often ??? ???

[matronyx]

In DFBHD i get a ping of 198 up

The higher the ping between the server and your box at home, the more lag.

[wheelman]

So what is Ping?

[Chris]

[quote author=wheelman link=board=11;threadid=736;start=0#msg5953 date=1053465142]
So what is Ping?
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Definition of "ping" from Webopedia:

"A utility to determine whether a specific IP address is accessible. It works by sending a packet to the specified address and waiting for a reply. PING is used primarily to troubleshoot Internet connections. There are many freeware and shareware Ping utilities available for personal computers.

It is often believed that "Ping" is an abbreviation for Packet Internet Groper, but Ping's author has stated that the names comes from the sound that a sonar makes."

[wheelman]

cool
Thanks

[deakie]

wheelman...you can do a ping in a dos box in windows.
eg. 'ping bbc.co.uk' or 'ping 132.185.132.204'
it will show you 4 round trip times on that address.
so you can always check your ping against a game server just to check.

[wheelman]

Yo thanks man this is cool, who new computer were so much fun.

[matronyx]

According to linux manpages:

ping uses the ICMP protocol?s mandatory ECHO_REQUEST datagram to elicit an ICMP ECHO_RESPONSE from a host or gateway.
ECHO_REQUEST datagrams (??pings??) have an IP and ICMP header, followed by a struct timeval and then an arbitrary number of ??pad?? bytes used to fill out the packet.

According to matronyx interpretation of the above:
Command used in a shell prompt to determine packet transfer rate between two machines.

[deakie]

exactly. well interpreted. its why its invaluable whn checking out game servers, to know before hand how clobbered you gonna be. ;D

sooo ppl, any game servers in jamaica? or where do you guys go online apart from lanning with each other.