Recently, online computer games are becoming more popular. Increasingly, people prefer to spend leisure time in front of the monitor screen. Game developers, using new technological capabilities, are releasing more and more projects designed specifically for the joint passage or opposition to each other. However, along with this, an unpleasant problem arises - high ping. If you do not understand what is at stake, then this article will introduce you to all the basic fundamentals, as well as tell you how to deal with this unpleasant situation. If you ever had a computer game that you play on the network that started to slow down, hang, then there is a possibility that you have this problem. High ping is not a curse, you can fight it. You just need to know your opponent, as well as understand the methods of dealing with him.
Signs of high ping
Please note that computer games alone may have certain problems. First of all, it may be the incompatibility of the game with your equipment. Naturally, this will not be about such situations - now the topic of conversation is high ping. And how can you determine that this unpleasant fate befell you? First, you must play online - in single-player games that you run exclusively on your computer, there is no such thing as high ping. In reality, this is connected precisely with the Internet connection, because of which everything starts to hang. Your character begins much later than necessary to respond to commands, the image begins to twitch, that is, jump from frame to frame, and not smoothly show what is happening. If something similar happened to you, it means that you have to fight with high ping.
What is ping?
You can often hear about high ping in CS and other online games, and now you know its signs. But in order to fight it, you need to understand its nature, that is, to fully understand the essence. Of course, the process as a whole is much more complex, but it can be explained quite simply. When playing online, you give commands to your character, and all your actions in the form of data packets are sent to the server on which you play and from where they are sent to all other players. In the end, it turns out that it is this exchange of data packets that creates the overall picture of the actions in the game. And ping is called the very time for which the information packet will reach the server and return with an updated answer. Thus, the lower the ping, the less time that is spent on this path - and the more smoothly the game goes. If time increases, then the gaps between the data transfer grow, and you can receive them back late. That is why your character reacts to commands late, and the picture jumps from frame to frame. High ping in World of Tanks and any other online game is a verdict: you cannot play normally in such conditions. But what do you do with this?
Does it depend on the speed of the Internet?
If you have high ping in games in which you participate on the network, do not panic right away - you need to understand the problem and start with the reasons for the ping changes. As you already understood, ping is primarily determined by your Internet. Many people believe that Internet speed is a determining factor, but it is not. The fact is that most computer games that you play on the network do not need too high speed, so if you have 10 Mbps, you will not reduce ping by increasing the speed to 100 Mbps. So what's the deal?
Other reasons
There are many different factors here: for example, you may have problems with the provider - to find out, you need to phone the technical services and check if the provider has a reason for the equipment. If not, then the problem may be the load on the channel. Many people download their Internet absolutely haphazardly, but you need to think of it as a data stream - if you turn on the torrent and download movies, occupying this two-thirds of the stream, then what are you waiting for when you start the game in parallel and you have a ping on that the reason that the game gets only one third of your flow? But there is another common problem - the distance to the server. The farther away you are from the server on which you are playing, the longer it will take the data packet described above to get from your computer to it and return with a response. Therefore, the high ping in the game World of Tanks is most often solved by switching to a server that is located closer to you.
Ping measurement
When you start having problems with this or that game, you naturally want to measure your ping right away to see if it is in it. But how to do that? It’s worth starting with the fact that some games already have tools for measuring ping, FPS (frames per second) and other important indicators, so you can find and use them. If there are no such tools, or you want to know more detailed statistics, you will need to refer to the command line of your operating system. When you find yourself in the right window, you should specify the ping command, and then write the address that you want to check. After activating the command, the exchange of data packets with this address will begin, after which you can see all attempts to send and receive packets, the data transfer rate, the number of lost packets, as well as the minimum, maximum and average speed for a particular resource.
Fix problems
You can fix the problem by the resulting results of determining its source. You can change the Internet provider or ask the current one to establish equipment, free the Internet channel, change the server on which you play, and so on.