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How to reduce high ping - 10 ways. What determines ping and how to find it out ...

User question

Hello.

Can you tell me how you can reduce the high ping in World of Warcraft? When you just run and kill mobs, then everything is fine, but when you start fighting with other people, the game responds for a long time to my clicks. Ping ranges from 200 to 300ms.

I tried cleaning Windows, optimizing it, but it still didn't help. Is there anything else you can do?

All the best!

In general, this is just one question out of dozens. All users who play online games: tanks, WOW, Counter-Strike, etc., I think that more than once or twice they encountered lags and delays (that is, the ping became very high) during the game.

In this article I will give the main points, what the ping depends on, how to find it out, and how you can lower it. I think this post will be of interest to all fans of network games.

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👉 To help!

If you want to know your real speed internet - see this note.

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How to find out your ping

What is it: important points

To begin with, so that everyone understands everything correctly, I will give my definition of ping (simple and concise 👀).

Ping - This is the time spent on sending a "piece" of data from your computer to another, and receiving a response from it.

To exaggerate completely: if you ask a question to a person and get an answer from him - then the time from the beginning of the question to the end of the answer to it - this will be a ping.

Ping is measured, usually in miles seconds (ms or ms). In games, they often write in English: Latecy or Ping.

It goes without saying that the higher the ping — so much the worse for you: your reaction in the game will leave the best, until you press the button and it works - a considerable time will pass, which means that you can simply be won for it. This is especially noticeable in active games where a good reaction is needed.

How to determine the ping to the server

Ping - value volatile in real time, and besides, it will be different for different servers. Those. to one server the ping can be 100 ms, and to another 500 ms.

Most often, ping is required to be learned to one or two servers. It is unlikely that you are interested in this value for all servers, without exception ...

To find out the ping, you need the server's IP address (or its domain name, for example, ocomp.info ).

Then you need to open the command line: press the Win + R key combination, type CMD and press Enter.

How to start the command prompt - the universal way for Windows 7, 8, 10

👉 To help!

Other ways how to open Command Prompt in different Windows OS.

Next, on the command line, write the following:

  1. ping ocomp.info - 4 packets will be sent, according to which the average response time in ms is determined (see the screenshot below);
  2. ping 176.114.4.148 - similar to the previous command, only the address is specified as an IP address.

CMD - ping detection

In games

👉 Regarding directly games - in the overwhelming majority of online hits, this value is shown automatically!

For example, in WOW, to find out your ping - just hover the mouse over the icon with the computer 👇 (by the way, it can have different colors: green - everything is in order, yellow - there is a delay, red - it will be difficult or impossible to play). In the screenshot below, the delay is 132 ms (if you have an English version, then see. Latecy).

Ping to WOW

If we are talking about "Counter" (Counter-Strike), then the ping is generally shown both when connected to the server, and directly in the game itself. In general, I don't see any difficulties here with its definition ...

Counter Strike - ping to servers

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How to reduce ping: what to look for!

1) Internet service provider

Your Internet provider plays a huge role in the quality of your Internet connection (including ping).

It so happens that your neighbor's ping is ten times lower on the same server on which you are playing - and the only difference is in the service provider.

Therefore, the first advice - try to ask your acquaintances, friends, neighbors - if they have a similar problem, maybe even try to run the desired game on their PC and compare the delays. Next, make a decision to change the provider.

👉 By the way, I personally know that a couple of guys I know "sit" on more expensive tariffs from not the most popular Internet providers just for the sake of a good connection with several game servers.

2) Connection type

The type of connection can also be of great importance: for example, a 3G modem will lose in ping to a regular wired (fiber-optic) Internet connection (which today, in my humble opinion, provides the best ping rates).

By the way, if you have a router installed, keep in mind that some inexpensive models may not cope with your network load and slow down (this will also affect delays and lags in games).

In this case, you can recommend turning off the router and connect the network cable directly to the network card of your PC and check how the game will go.

👉 For example

When I connect to my router via Wi-Fi, my ping in CS 1.6 is about 40-50 ms.

When connected. to the same router using a network cable - the ping is reduced to 20-30 ms (i.e. by 10-20 ms).

Network cable directly to laptop port

3) The remoteness of the server with the game

The second and also very important point is where the server with the game is located: in your local network, in your city, in your country, or even abroad?

Usually, the further server - themes above will be ping (but this rule does not always work).

Of course, I understand that there is not always a desire to change the game server (especially when friends appeared, communication began), but still - sometimes changing the server, the ping can be reduced significantly! You can switch to play on another server as a whole clan at once (especially if you are all from the same city ...).

4) Connection speed, tariff

There is a myth that the higher the connection speed, the lower the ping! In fact this is not true...

If the speed of the Internet connection is not enough to transfer data between you and the game server, then there will also be brakes in the game, delays, etc. But they are not directly related to ping - hence the confusion.

At all, speed Is a parameter that determines how long it will take you to receive the requested data (measured in MB / s). Ping the same is the time spent on the server response, i.e. the lower the ping, the faster the download will start, but the download time will depend on the speed.

In general, the message of this part of the article is to find out what speed should be for a comfortable game, and then check your connection speed (real, and not the one that you have specified in the contract with the Internet provider).

👉 To help!

How to find out your real internet connection speed.

5) The load of the Internet channel

If you are downloading something in parallel with the game, then the ping may drop noticeably.

Many, by the way, do not even realize that their Windows system can download updates, uTorrent distributes files, and sometimes other users also download them from you, also look at other PCs / laptops (if you have several machines connected to the Internet), etc. ...

👉 To help!

How to disable updates in Windows - see note.

To check which applications are loading the network - open the task manager (shortcut Ctrl + Shift + Esc) and look at the "network" column (sort the load by it).

👉 To help! What and what programs is my Internet network loaded with, where does the traffic go? Limiting download and upload speed for any of the programs

Task Manager - Network Load

Important!

It is possible that specifically in your apartment there will be no extraneous load on the network - but the Internet channel of your provider will be loaded by other users (you are not alone in the house and in the area 👀).

Especially, this is noticeable in the evening hours, when everyone is at home and the load on the network increases. Here the recommendations concerning the Internet provider are pertinent (see item 1 above).

6) Problem with the driver on the network card

Drivers can be of great importance for the operation of a network adapter (in principle, as for any other equipment).

For example, on my work laptop, after I demolished the default drivers installed by Windows and installed them from the device manufacturer's website, the Wi-Fi connection speed increased by 1.5 times!

In general, the topic of drivers is quite extensive, below I will give a couple of links to articles from which you will learn how to find drivers correctly and how to update them.

👉 To help!

1) The best software for automatic driver updates.

2) How to install, update or remove a driver for a network adapter (for example, a Wi-Fi adapter).

7) Is your computer 100% loaded with extraneous tasks?

Perhaps your online game slows down not because of ping, but due to the fact that, for example, a high load on the processor and it simply does not have time, it freezes.

This can also be observed with a high load on the hard disk, RAM. I analyzed all this in detail in the article about computer brakes, and I recommend that you familiarize yourself with it to diagnose and optimize the operation of your Windows OS.

👉 To help!

1) The processor is loaded at 100% for no apparent reason.

2) Why the computer slows down, how you can speed up its work.

 

8) Configuring the Package Scheduler (Windows Tune 1)

Package scheduler QoS (or QoS packet manager) silently reserves a certain portion of the Internet channel for operating system updates, sending statistics, e-mail, etc., etc.

Sometimes this reservation reaches 10-20% of the channel's capacity, which is not a little, do you agree ?! Therefore, it is logical that it must be disabled ...

How to do it:

  1. go to the local group policy editor - for this you need to click Win + R, enter into line "Open"gpedit.msc and press Enter;
  2. then go to the section: Computer Configuration / Administrative Templates / Network / QoS Packet Scheduler (or QoS package manager);
  3. then move the slider to position "Included" and set the value to "0". Save settings and restart your PC.

Reserved bandwidth

Note: Not every Windows version can open the Group Policy Editor settings (this option is disabled in Starter and Home versions).

8.1) Installing the Leatrix Latency Fix script (fine tuning Windows 2)

Script developer site: //www.leatrix.com/leatrix-latency-fix

This script (by the way, it was written by a fan of the game World of Warcraft) is designed to remove the delay in the response of the system to processing packets (in Windows, this does not work by default!). As a result, the confirmation is sent immediately, which slightly reduces the delay.

By the way, this can be done without special scripts - but you have to rummage in the registry for a long time (which not everyone can do). And such a program works in auto-mode, it is easy to use, there is no need to install. What else is needed? 👌

After downloading the script, extract the archive and run the executable file (administrator rights are required).

Next, see what you will have written in the window:

  1. offer to install (Install) - install and restart your computer;
  2. delete suggestion (Remove) - if so, it is better not to touch, then the changes have already been made to the registry (by clicking on Remove - you will return the settings to their original state).

9) Firewall and Antivirus

Another point that I would like to draw your attention to is the work of antivirus and firewall (often they are combined into one security program called antivirus).

By default, the firewall is suspicious of unfamiliar programs and, by default, asks you whether to give access to the network for a particular program.

Disable Avast antivirus for 1 hour

All of these checks often affect the performance of games. Recommend: either add the game to the list of trusted applications, or for the duration of the game disable firewall (and antivirus). Fortunately, many modern antiviruses already have a game mode ...

👉 To help!

How to prevent any program from accessing the Internet, setting up a firewall.

10) Installation of special. utilities that increase the priority of games

And finally, now there are quite a few utilities that can ask the highest priority for the game (during its launch), free up RAM, close unnecessary processes - this way, all PC resources will be used for the game (and not for extraneous tasks).

Thanks to this, it is possible not only to reduce a few pings, but also to speed up the work of the game itself. I talked about such utilities in one of my previous articles, link below 👇.

👉 To help!

Game acceleration: the best programs and utilities.

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I hope that after taking a set of measures, your ping will become lower.

That's all for me, good luck everyone!

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First publication: 05/21/2017

Correction: 01/05/2020

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