What is "Ping"

[Tom]

Kalphirer is wrong.

Ping has correlation to distance, but it is not really a distance. It is the time it takes for the information to get to the target server and back.

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[Chrono]

Kalphirer is wrong.

Ping has correlation to distance, but it is not really a distance. It is the time it takes for the information to get to the target server and back.

No Tom, our houses just move without us looking. It's totally distance.
Oh crap, lag spike.
My house is now flying away from Blockland.

[Tom]

Maybe Blockland is flying away from you.

[ShadowZero]

Ping is another word for lag in a simpler way.
The people that taught me this was a idiot.

[Kalphiter]

Ping is another word for lag in a simpler way.

Go away. You have no clue what you are talking about.

[Chrono]

Maybe Blockland is flying away from you.

QUICK GUYS TIE BLOCKLAND DOWN IT'S FLYING INTO SPACE!

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LET ME INTERRRUPT!

Ping is the time it takes for....

forget it, keep flying away.

[General Nick]

Ping is the time it takes for your game to communicate with the server.

It's measured in milliseconds, or one thousandth of a second. So a ping of 35 would mean it takes 35 milliseconds to communicate with the server.

Generally pings lower than 150 are good. Higher than that will result in consistent lag.
Many things can affect ping. Location/distance between you and the server host, your connection speed/host's connection ping, lots of things.

[DaSord213]

It can be compared to sonar on some vessel, or wessel. It sends out a signal and when it bounces back it shows where its at, and how fast it got there. Ping is the number how fast it got back. So if you are playing a game where are person has a high game, guess what? Lag for you because he is far away. I think.

I could be wrong. My memory is not serving me well today.

[Flying Ace]

High fps good low ping good :D

[Snaily]

Packet Internet Groper

[Plornt]

PIG

[M]

PIG

Packet Internet Groper

[Chrono]

That would make it PInG, but it's just ping.

[Makingblah]

Maybe it's a word like car, that doesn't stand for anything but infact is a word itself.