sirius05 Posted April 16, 2006 CID Share Posted April 16, 2006 I'm sorry to ask this, but i have heard it over and over and over again but never knew what it does or whats the purpose of it. I'm talking about PING. Can someone tell me what ping is and whats the purpose of it, because i play my xbox360 online everyday all the time, and i see by their names different ping numbers.. So can someone explain to me please what PING is, if the ping number is high is that good or is it supposed to be low or vice versa or what? Also, how can i find out what my Ping is, because i have no clue how to find out aswell as what it is. So please can someone explain this to me. Thanks Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jags4560 Posted April 16, 2006 CID Share Posted April 16, 2006 Packet Internet Groper. A utility that forwards data packets to check the quality of a link or verify the connection of a machine to the Internet http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=define%3Aping&btnG=Google+Search Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
php Posted April 16, 2006 CID Share Posted April 16, 2006 Lower is better Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j3grizz Posted April 17, 2006 CID Share Posted April 17, 2006 Pinging allows you to figure out all sorts of things. You can solve internet connection problems, lan (local area network) problems, figure out the route you use when you send info to the net. and detect any problems along the way such as slow servers and such. These are just a few things you can do, but you can get a general idea. I hope this is a good enough answer for ya. If not I will get a little more in depth. Welcome to the forum sirius05! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommie gorman Posted April 17, 2006 CID Share Posted April 17, 2006 Welcome to the forum sirius05 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CA3LE Posted April 18, 2006 CID Share Posted April 18, 2006 I'm sorry to ask this, but i have heard it over and over and over again but never knew what it does or whats the purpose of it. I'm talking about PING. Can someone tell me what ping is and whats the purpose of it, because i play my xbox360 online everyday all the time, and i see by their names different ping numbers.. So can someone explain to me please what PING is, if the ping number is high is that good or is it supposed to be low or vice versa or what? Also, how can i find out what my Ping is, because i have no clue how to find out aswell as what it is. So please can someone explain this to me. Thanks Steve High number is bad. Low number is good. You will actually have many pings across the internet because you will be visiting many sites and talking with many servers. You will have a differnet ping to each server you connect to. Your ping is the time in milliseconds it takes for the information to travel from you to the server and back. In your games for instance, if you have a high ping you will get lag. Ping can be effected by either distance or a problem on either the client or host end. Hope this clears your question... and Welcome to the site Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justinlay Posted April 18, 2006 CID Share Posted April 18, 2006 The lower you pings the better. example I live im guessing 30-40 miles from dallas which testmy server is. Ive gotin pings from 7 -14ms. If i ping like yahoo.com i get ping in the mid 20ms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roco Posted April 18, 2006 CID Share Posted April 18, 2006 This is my ping result to TMN Average = 113ms from the UK, does this seem about right ? I get around 25ms to Europe (Holland) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VanBuren Posted April 18, 2006 CID Share Posted April 18, 2006 This is my ping result to TMN Average = 113ms from the UK, does this seem about right ? I get around 25ms to Europe (Holland) thats about right my route from Sweden goes via NL and UK Tracing route to testmy.net [67.18.179.85] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.0.10 2 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms ua-85-226-177-2.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se [85.226 .177.2] 3 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms vlan2.dr2.lul10.se.bredband.com [195.54.119.238] 4 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms port-channel3.dr1.lul1.se.bredband.com [195.54.1 19.233] 5 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms ge1-0.cr1.lul1.se.bredband.com [195.54.115.225] 6 11 ms 11 ms 11 ms pos3-0.cr2.svl1.se.bredband.com [195.54.124.134] 7 11 ms 11 ms 11 ms pos6-0.cr1.svl1.se.bredband.com [195.54.124.13] 8 20 ms 20 ms 20 ms pos6-0-0.cr2.sto1.se.bredband.com [195.54.123.18 1] 9 20 ms 20 ms 20 ms pos14-0.cr1.sto1.se.bredband.com [195.54.123.129 ] 10 20 ms 20 ms 20 ms pos13-0.cr2.sto2.se.bredband.com [195.54.123.106 ] 11 42 ms 41 ms 41 ms pos1-0.br1.ams1.se.bredband.com [195.54.123.150] 12 44 ms 45 ms 43 ms PNI.Bredband.ams1.nl.above.net [82.98.247.5] 13 43 ms 43 ms 42 ms so-0-0-0.mpr1.ams5.nl.above.net [64.125.27.182] 14 56 ms 56 ms 57 ms so-5-0-0.cr2.lhr3.uk.above.net [64.125.27.177] 15 132 ms 132 ms 129 ms so-7-0-0.cr1.dca2.us.above.net [64.125.31.186] 16 129 ms 129 ms 127 ms so-0-0-0.cr2.dca2.us.above.net [64.125.29.122] 17 152 ms 153 ms 154 ms so-3-0-0.cr2.dfw2.us.above.net [64.125.29.169] 18 156 ms 157 ms 157 ms 216.200.6.237.theplanet.com [216.200.6.237] 19 156 ms 156 ms 152 ms vl32.dsr01.dllstx3.theplanet.com [70.85.127.61] 20 152 ms 172 ms 211 ms vl42.dsr02.dllstx4.theplanet.com [70.85.127.91] 21 154 ms 152 ms 171 ms gi1-0-1.car17.dllstx4.theplanet.com [67.18.116.6 9] 22 153 ms 153 ms 153 ms 55.b3.1243.static.theplanet.com [67.18.179.85] Trace complete. so the ping between uk backbone and testmy.net is 153 - 56 = 97 ms VanBuren Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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