Originally Posted by
James
HSB, how much wine did you have before writing this? :P
Ping is merely a number that ells you how fast it takes for a packet to get from the source to the destination.
source = client
destination = server.
There are many variables that can make a ping high
1. The most obvious is the internet connection from both source and destination routes
2. location
I typically have a ping < 100 when I played MOHAA, but when I played with purpleElephantAU a while back, I think my ping was between 300 - 400ms.
Any way in terms of gaming is concerned, there are also a lot of variables. The packet compression for example. MOHAA uses the Huffman algorithm.
When WarRock first came out, many servers were hosted in China (if I'm not mistaken), and despite me being on the opposite side of the world, I actually had a very good network connection because they did a good job with network packet compression and being able to transmit data.