Ping

[Auston]

I have noticed a considerable increase to my ping on Perpheads. Being from the US, I would average 150-170 ping previously, which is totally normal for my connection.

Nowadays, my average is usually 210-250 ping with gigabit internet, which I find to be unreasonable for a server located in London.

I'm sure a lot of other US players feel the same way, and experience how frustrating it is to get into PVP and be a quarter of a second behind at all times.

This is not meant to be any attack to EU players with decent ping, but more of an opinion gathering about the current server situation especially with our large US population.

Let me know your thoughts.

 

[piesangsaregood]

I have noticed a considerable increase to my ping on Perpheads. Being from the US, I would average 150-170 ping previously, which is totally normal for my connection.

Nowadays, my average is usually 210-250 ping with gigabit internet, which I find to be unreasonable for a server located in London.

I'm sure a lot of other US players feel the same way, and experience how frustrating it is to get into PVP and be a quarter of a second behind at all times.

This is not meant to be any attack to EU players with decent ping, but more of an opinion gathering about the current server situation especially with our large US population.

Let me know your thoughts.

I live in south africa and have always got about 270 ping on high pop

 

[Clarky]

Sometimes you can get shit routing too, if you do "tracert 208.103.169.211" in cmd/powershell you can get a better idea of your real latency than what is shown on gmod because of the different attributes to it like entities, vehicles and so on.

 

[Hjalte]

i don’t get the servers system with ping. Cus when i play different games I get close to 1-20 ping but in perp u can’t get less than 100

 

[Auston]

Sometimes you can get shit routing too, if you do "tracert 208.103.169.211" in cmd/powershell you can get a better idea of your real latency than what is shown on gmod because of the different attributes to it like entities, vehicles and so on.

Ive checked my routing, also tried running programs like "exitlag." My routing is optimal, but still average close to 250 ping.

 

[Cree]

I've noticed recently that when the server is under load, voices tend to cut out a lot more. When it's bad, it makes radio comms neigh impossible

 

[Smeris]

You should do a trace route and check what hop takes an abnormal amount of time. Perp's ping has always been awful though. You're getting a pretty fair FPS actually, being from the US. Your 'gigabit' bandwidth has nothing to do with ping. You mentioned your route being optimal. How are you so sure about that? American internet providers aren't really known for their fair usage policies and will happily save money increase shareholder value by using much cheaper peers.

 

[Auston]

You should do a trace route and check what hop takes an abnormal amount of time. Perp's ping has always been awful though. You're getting a pretty fair FPS actually, being from the US. Your 'gigabit' bandwidth has nothing to do with ping. You mentioned your route being optimal. How are you so sure about that? American internet providers aren't really known for their fair usage policies and will happily save money increase shareholder value by using much cheaper peers.

Gigabit internet was a way for me to articulate I have good internet.

I tracerouted multiple times to the server, and London in general, My jumps are are reasonable, and minimal. Its an issue with the server. 250 ms is not a normal connect to EU from the US.

 

[Smeris]

Gigabit internet was a way for me to articulate I have good internet.

I tracerouted multiple times to the server, and London in general, My jumps are are reasonable, and minimal. Its an issue with the server. 250 ms is not a normal connect to EU from the US.

It's way to easy to say It's an issue with the server. 250ms is not a normal return time in normal networking, no., but with a 20 tick garry's mod server it's average. It's been like that for years for non europeans.

I'm going to assume you're running a networked connection from pc to your router. You could try enabling Quality of Service on your router to ensure your traffic is getting priority over other traffic. I don't know if you have a large household but ISP-provided routers and modems have TERRIBLE processors on them and cannot handle game server traffic very well if they have to also deal with 5 people streaming netflix.

Make sure you are not using any .cfg options that mess with tickrates and interpolation. Additionaly, you could try using a reputable VPN to reduce hops and to ensure you are not being throttled by your ISP.

 

[Auston]

It's way to easy to say It's an issue with the server. 250ms is not a normal return time in normal networking, no., but with a 20 tick garry's mod server it's average. It's been like that for years for non europeans.

I'm going to assume you're running a networked connection from pc to your router. You could try enabling Quality of Service on your router to ensure your traffic is getting priority over other traffic. I don't know if you have a large household but ISP-provided routers and modems have TERRIBLE processors on them and cannot handle game server traffic very well if they have to also deal with 5 people streaming netflix.

Make sure you are not using any .cfg options that mess with tickrates and interpolation. Additionaly, you could try using a reputable VPN to reduce hops and to ensure you are not being throttled by your ISP.

All of those things have been done already. I live alone, have QOS enabled, and have used VPN's to test.

 

[Dr. Dräjj]

My ping has always been around 160 from Sweden. Have not noticed any big differences recently.

 

[Mak]

My ping went from 190ms on high pop to 240ms (increasing by 50ms, almost identical to yours) 140ms low pop to 190ms now on low pop.

According to my clips, around mid of October I randomly went from 190ms to 240ms - like something was changed, no idea what went wrong..

 

[Exnem]

I am an EU player and I have GOOD ping.

Though usually my ping's around 120-180 depending on pop. Occasionally 210 if someone's prop bombing the server.
I can't say for sure if it's supposed to be this way for all these years, but it's been this way for so long that it's the norm for US players almost entirely regardless of what ISP or package you have.

 

[Auston]

My ping October 2025.