The question that everyone who games online has asked

[The Desert Fox]

How the fuck do I lower my ping?

For the past few days, my ping has never dipped below 220, and emptying entire magazines into zombies can take up to 2 seconds to have any effect on them at all. There have been cases in which I have literally lit zombies on fire one second, and then the next they're magically extinguished and beating the shit out me. This makes playing on any difficulty above Normal a huge pain, and Survival/Versus are near unplayable.

Also, inb4 Baron makes some half-assed post like "it's because you're a jew lololololo".

[Thought Criminal]

It's because you're a jew lolololol

[Pieman]

I believe it's a combination of shitty interwebs and/or computer.

[The Desert Fox]

Bullshit, I can run L4D2/Clear Sky Complete/HL2/etc on highest possible settings with no problem. I also have a fast internet connection.

Then again, maybe I'm just going through another shitty ping period. I've had it be in the forties and the hundreds in the same day.

[Thought Criminal]

or maybe its because your a jew

[aaaaaaasd]

Is anyone else using your connection? Depending upon what router you have you may be able to go in and set the Quality of Service so that you recieve the most priority. If that isn't possible, try asking the other people who use your connection to not use so much bandwith?

Or maybe it's because you're a jew lololololololololololololo

[The Desert Fox]

My two sisters use the router often, that may be why.

ProfessorVonStrangle Wrote:Depending upon what router you have you may be able to go in and set the Quality of Service so that you recieve the most priority.

Interesting, how would I go about this?

[aaaaaaasd]

routerlogin.net
look through the options
?????
PROFIT!

[psychopath]

Erm you join low ping servers? isn't that the ONLY solution, the solution gamers have been using for years and years, or am I missing something here? I can't play online games properly unless I join Australian servers because otherwise the ping is too high

[SoulRiser]

1) Join servers close to you.
2) Make sure nobody else is browsing or downloading on your connection.
3) You're not using some kind of wireless internet, are you? Those usually have shitty ping even if they're fast for everything else.

[The Desert Fox]

ProfessorVonStrangle Wrote:routerlogin.net
look through the options
?????
PROFIT!

Damn, my router isn't the kind they feature.

SoulRiser Wrote:Join servers close to you.

I try.

SoulRiser Wrote:Make sure nobody else is browsing or downloading on your connection.

Extremely hard. One or both of my sisters are almost always on.

SoulRiser Wrote:You're not using some kind of wireless internet, are you?

Kind of sort of yeah.

[AWOL]

... *facepalm*. Dumbass.

[Elfy]

The Desert Fox Wrote:

SoulRiser Wrote:Make sure nobody else is browsing or downloading on your connection.

Extremely hard. One or both of my sisters are almost always on.

SoulRiser Wrote:You're not using some kind of wireless internet, are you?

Kind of sort of yeah.

Theres your problem(s).

Kill your sisters and wire up your router to your computer

?????

PROFIT

[Elfy]

or its because you're a self dick mutilating jew lololololo

[The Desert Fox]

Yet when I join games it remains in the 200s. What the fuck.

[aaaaaaasd]

That test just tests your connection speed under normal net browsing circumstances like downloading stuff. It would be a reasonable test for gaming ping if you were the only person who used the connection.

[monkey]

Whenever I do anything I receive virtually no line jitter and a ping of 20-30. And I'm on wifi.

Dat quest highspeed

Also, I don't experience ping as high as what you say unless I test through shanghai. So something is fucked up with your internet.

[Mondasin]

When I get home I'll see bout finding a few of the programs I have that reduce ping, mostly by making you system basicly focus on nothing but the game.

It also helps to know if your sisters are downloading anything, normal browsing shouldn't affect you very much.

[The Desert Fox]

My sister does seem to be watching episodes of Glee or whatever the fuck is it she watches quite often, so if she downloads them as often as it seems that would make sense that bandwidth is being hogged.

The bottom line is, SPY SAPPIN' MAH BANDWITH

[Mondasin]

http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/i ... cyFix.html

not sure if this will work, but hey anything is worth a shot right?

[aaaaaaasd]

LOL GLEE

glee is for faggots who faggot

[The Desert Fox]

Aha, my sister is in NYC this weekend, and my ping has never gone above 130. It could be better, but now zombies don't hit me from 10 feet away. My suspicions have been confirmed.