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.