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    Quote Originally Posted by Forerunner View Post
    350 ms ping is 3.5 seconds, 33 ms ping is 1/3 of a second.
    Wrong. 3500ms is 3.5 seconds, ms being milliseconds or a 1/1000 seconds. You're probably confusing it for microseconds, which is 1/10 and is written as µs


    >_>

    3.5 seconds delay on stuff seems right with the way I run out of stuff, still die then slide across others' screens.
    The delay is higher because the ping only accounts for a single packet reaching the server, it doesn't account for processing times on the server nor for the time a response packet needs to reach you, nor for the fact that usually it needs more than one packet to deliver the data.

    In short, ping is not really reliable for determining your exact latency.
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    Last edited by Soukyuu; 06-10-2012 at 10:41 PM.

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