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General => Troubleshooting => Topic started by: atrumcruor on December 19, 2006, 04:04:29 am

Title: Ping
Post by: atrumcruor on December 19, 2006, 04:04:29 am: I'm Sick and Tired of not being able to go on a server because my Ping is not low enough. I have a High speed connection 7megabytes/second, why can I not join any servers, yes I said any. Meaning I can not play because my ping is to High. I live in the Arizona, USA can anyone solve my problem?
Title: Ping
Post by: Undeference on December 19, 2006, 04:19:42 am: 7 megabytes per second?!? You have a 58Mbps connection?
Title: Re: Ping
Post by: kevlarman on December 19, 2006, 05:25:14 am: Quote from: "atrumcruor"
I'm Sick and Tired of not being able to go on a server because my Ping is not low enough. I have a High speed connection 7megabytes/second, why can I not join any servers, yes I said any. Meaning I can not play because my ping is to High. I live in the Arizona, USA can anyone solve my problem?
there's this number, roughly equal to 3 * 10^8 meters/second. afaik, it's provably impossible for infromation to move faster than that number. it doesn't matter how much bandwidth you have, you can't break the laws of physics. bandwidth doesn't affect your ping at all (unless you don't have enough of it, but even dailup comes pretty close to having enough), the main factor is physical distance to the server.
Title: Ping
Post by: atrumcruor on December 20, 2006, 12:11:03 am: yes i know the speed of light, where are mostly all the servers at then
Title: Ping
Post by: Thorn on December 20, 2006, 12:15:29 am: Planet earth? There aint even 1 single uk server though As far as i can tell.
Title: Ping
Post by: Diggs on December 20, 2006, 02:14:48 am: You didn't say what your ping was.

Ping (also called latency) has nothing to do with bandwidth.

Run and post a tracert so we can see where your latency problems are. Without knowing where the problem is, there is not much we can do to help.

Diggs
Title: Ping
Post by: techhead on December 20, 2006, 04:38:53 pm: You can also try a server without a maximum ping.
Title: Ping
Post by: Vector_Matt on December 20, 2006, 05:53:07 pm: Surprised no one asked this. Do you have any other programs running that use bandwidth? (Browsers, file sharing programs, etc...)