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Offline Heretic

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« on: July 09, 2005, 05:51:13 PM »
Gentlemen,

Is it better to have a low ping number VS high ping number?


Two weeks ago I was getting ping #'s in the high 80's and now I'm pinging at 31 and connect when then.    I have no idea why the #'s changed to a lower ping number but they did.

Just curious about this.    I'm not computer savvy at all so thats why I'm asking.

Thanks

Offline OOZ662

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« Reply #1 on: July 09, 2005, 06:40:31 PM »
The higher the ping, the longer a packet of data is taking to go round-trip.
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Offline MaddogJoe

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« Reply #2 on: July 10, 2005, 06:53:08 PM »
Right the lower the number tha faster the trip to HTC and back. The reason you may have seen a change is Skuzzy mentioned switching the servers to a new system to try and get away from Savvis backbone. Looks like you may have gotten a little help with your connection to HTC  :)

Offline bj229r

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« Reply #3 on: July 20, 2005, 09:18:41 PM »
My conn to HTC has gone to watermelon last 2-3 weeks (well, admittedly, was only 200 ms or so to start with--dialup only here) --now, even TANKS warp...I dont even bother to fly airplanes anymore, too dang frustrating--net stat looks like OJ Simpson talking to LA police...vox barely even works--have tried all the other numbers, no avail---updated, ran Ad-Aware, wiped out pesky spyware---my Windows firewall is OFF, I turn off PC_Cillin when I start game, kill heap many other processes, no avail..I doubt that it is HTC, but cant do squat about it (BTW, am I sposed to be able to tracert 216.91.187.39 over dialup? cant find ANYthing--times out)
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