Another Ping Post - What's a good avg?

TeddyBeck

Sorry for what i guess must be a million posts on this subject, i would search for the answer i am looking for but the little verification box never shows a picture for me so i'm unable to actually search the forum...

I hear a lot of talk about high ping / low ping, but i'm not entirely sure what a 'reasonable' ping is.

Personally i'm UK based with a 10mb dl (9.4 mb from speedtest.net) and a local ping of between 25-30 (graded A by pingtest.net).

For the last 3 weeks i have had an average of between 100 -120 ping, which seemed to be pretty reasonable for playing the game - but yesterday this jumped to between 150 -170. Is there any reason why this might have happened, or anyone else (maybe UK based) notice a change like this?

I realise living in the UK i'm not going to be acheiving a 30-40 ping over here, but what is a decent ping to play the game? At what point do you jump to becoming a laggy player? I'm pretty cheesed off that my ping has jumped 50 points, but i can't see what on earth could have caused it - nothing's has changed at my end?!

Anyway - some feedback much appreciated.
Cheers.

Synetrix

I find that at around 200 ping, the shots stop registering. I used to have 170, but now it's 195 because of updates and stuff. Hope it doesn't get any higher.

TeddyBeck

Well, as an update, after 11:00pm (UK time) my ping restored to normal - hovering around the 100 mark (occassionally dropping as low as 98 ). This leads me to think it must be down to the servers being overloaded slowing down the traffic.

I realise admin probably don't read this stuff.... but damn... please implement a UK server!!

Gaming is so much more playable / enjoyable with a reasonable ping!

MikeDaSpike

my ping is between 113~140 and it's nice as long as i dun fight against -50 pingers xD

JirouHibiki

I find that anywhere above 60 I notice lag in some form. I normally have an average of 42, but it tends to jump depending on the server from 38 to 54.

H3adShoot3r

I think under 100 is a preferred ping. Over 150 is bad imo. Under 50 makes you instapro.

AUGarithm

MikeDaSpike wrote: »

my ping is between 113~140 and it's nice as long as i dun fight against -50 pingers xD

My ping is normally 9 (what an a-hole I am, right?). I fixed up my modem so my ping spikes only up to 50.

I live in the US (on da borderline, best benefits).

Core2DuoOC1

KNIFESLAY wrote: »

My ping is normally 9 (what an a-hole I am, right?). I fixed up my modem so my ping spikes only up to 50.

I live in the US (on da borderline, best benefits).

100 ping is a good ping. Above 160 i feel hit detection starts getting off. And by 200 you start tanking, a person with 250 can kill you and you will have time to behind a wall...then you will die, that and they will start to jump around the map...not up and down but more shotting forward really quick. At around 350 hit detection is way the hell off and your player will jump forward, stop, tank rounds then youll get in time with the server and be way far away. Above 400 just boot the person...really, your killing the match for everyone else...1000 ping sould be the limiter for the game...1000 ping for more then 4 seconds.