Is 80ms ping too high for Multiplayer gaming?
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@Pisen - His ping is not 80.
@Ethan
Here's the solution.
1)Disable all other services/apps that might be using your internet connectivity.
2)Join the game in the server.
3)Minimize the game
4)Open command prompt ("cmd" in run)
5)Type "netstat -an". Press enter.
Now you will see all the network connections currently to and from your machine.
Eg. Here are mine a.t.m.
You can differentiate between external and internal ip, I presume. Now since you have disabled all other network activity, you should see only one external ip. That is the server you are playing at. If you know the port number at the server end(you can google this) for this game, then you can for sure know which "Established" communication is to the game server. In this case you wouldn't even have to disable any other internet activity, as you know the port number(the one after the ":" in the ips).
One you have the server ip. Disable all other net activity. Do ping <x.x.x.x>. Now this is your actual ping at the server.
In fast FPSes the ping should be less than 200 for optimal gaming performance. But if your game sucks, you can join these high ping servers and annoy those ppl in there, it's kinda fun. :hap2:
@Ethan
Here's the solution.
1)Disable all other services/apps that might be using your internet connectivity.
2)Join the game in the server.
3)Minimize the game
4)Open command prompt ("cmd" in run)
5)Type "netstat -an". Press enter.
Now you will see all the network connections currently to and from your machine.
Eg. Here are mine a.t.m.
You can differentiate between external and internal ip, I presume. Now since you have disabled all other network activity, you should see only one external ip. That is the server you are playing at. If you know the port number at the server end(you can google this) for this game, then you can for sure know which "Established" communication is to the game server. In this case you wouldn't even have to disable any other internet activity, as you know the port number(the one after the ":" in the ips).
One you have the server ip. Disable all other net activity. Do ping <x.x.x.x>. Now this is your actual ping at the server.
In fast FPSes the ping should be less than 200 for optimal gaming performance. But if your game sucks, you can join these high ping servers and annoy those ppl in there, it's kinda fun. :hap2:
Thanks for that command. I'll try that out ASAP. Just a quick update, I tried F.E.A.R 2: Project Origins online mulitplayer & that worked absolutely fine. I filtered the servers to ping below 50ms & I could smoothly. Let me try with Bionic Commando again. Thanks for all your help guys. Much appreciated as always. 
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