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Posted by 2dmin on Sat Jul 3rd at 3:16am 2004

I made a dedicated Counter-Strike server on my computer, and added it to my favourites. I was bored so I was clicking refresh a lot, seeing what my pings were. It was between 0 and 20 most of the time, except about 1 in every 10 times I refreshed, I would get -1 ping.

www.snarkpit.com/pits/2dmin/Negative_ping.JPG

I found this pretty funny, but I guess it's just the server thing mis-estimating the ping?

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Posted by G.Ballblue on Sat Jul 3rd at 5:45am 2004

I wonder why the ping is so low [addsig]



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Posted by 2dmin on Sat Jul 3rd at 9:35am 2004

Coz some people can actually get less than 10 seconds response time to their own computer?... [addsig]



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Posted by matt on Sat Jul 3rd at 10:11am 2004

Latencey has a unit of milli (thousanths) of a second I thought. So 20 would be 20x10^-3 seconds = 0.02 seconds, and -1 would be -0.01 which is weird!



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Posted by Kage_Prototype on Sat Jul 3rd at 10:11am 2004

? quote:
Coz some people can actually get less than 10 seconds response time to their own computer?...


I think he was being sarcastic mate, no need to correct him. [addsig]



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Posted by wil5on on Sat Jul 3rd at 2:26pm 2004

Its actually part of an evil conspiracy by all game manufacturers to subtract a constant value from the ping so that pings always look better than they are. [addsig]



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Posted by 2dmin on Sat Jul 3rd at 11:45pm 2004

Hehehehe, quite probably.
Or perhaps my computer is a time machine which gets packets from itself one millisecond before it sends them!
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