Ive been having a problem lately with my ping and lagging in fortnite. I have a ethernet cord running from my router ,to my Pc and as oi now i have a download speed of 191 Mbps. I usually get between 20-30 ping where I live. Since about two weeks ago, I have been getting the red X over my ping even though it says its still at normal ping, i begin to lag for 10 or so seconds than back to normal for a bit. Today I have 230 ping and its unplayable although I ran the speed test and it shows 191 Mbps. Normally its just the X by the ping and it stays around 20-30. Its just unplayable when every minute I start to lag although my ping is staying normal. This happens all time of the day whether I am the only one on the internet or not. Just wondering if anyone might have an idea as to why this might be happening or a fix for it. Thanks! And yes Im on the right region lol.

Fast Download But High Ping

When I run speed test on many websites, it shows more than 300 but when I play games I get 80 ms ping. All games are so slow and lagging. When I open up games and minimize it, internet browser becomes so slow too.

Anyway upgrading your internet speed will have little to no effect on your ping, the reason you got better ping is probably due to having a better router, WiFi is still Half-duplex and there's more processing and interruptions involved, it's still far from matching Ethernet level of latency which supports Full-duplex and is a direct connection.

Half-duplex means the data can travel one way, it has to wait for the packets to finish to then be able to send or receive the opposite way, while Full-duplex can send and receive at the same time.

IMO that's not really bad. I can't even play multiplayer games with my setup right now until i sort out some ethernet. I have a wifi extender by my pc with an ethernet cable going out of it into the PC and I get kicked off of ETS2MP for having over 600 ping.

If you have a ping of 15 and someone has 8, they will in no way have an advantage over you. Most online games are designed to handle much higher pings so really in most cases anything under 100ms will have roughly the same experience. But definitely under 50 would have no noticeable difference.

I should also add, that speed has almost nothing to do with latency. You can have Gigabit ethernet and 200ms ping... and 30mb VDSL with 10ms ping so increasing speed may not improve gaming unless you have a saturation issue or a decrease in latency from something else such as a change in technology.

And while pro gamers are able to avoid high pings at all costs, perhaps even by upgrading their equipment to the latest and greatest hardware, recreational online gamers generally are left to troubleshoot their own devices. To that end, consider this your ultimate guide on how to lower ping and, ultimately, reduce lag in video games.

Internet connection speed, above all else, affects ping. And for online gamers, internet connection speed is everything. Speed can also be affected by how much data a network is juggling and how many users are on that network at the same time.

How to lower ping? You can do this by improving the route your internet takes to connect to gaming servers. In other words, you can help establish a better connection between your computer and gaming servers.

Lower ping is better than high ping, because low ping means less lag. And less lag means smoother gameplay. On the flip, high ping means a longer lag. It also means you probably have a poor internet connection speed.

You can run a ping test on most computers, though how to do so differs across manufacturers. Some online ping tests also exist. To simplify, an internet speed test can also provide context to your ping rate.

Another consideration: Are your ethernet cables up to date? Ethernet cables are available in categories ranging from 3 to 8, or Cat 3 to Cat 8. The higher the category, the better your internet bandwidth and transmission speed. Most households have a Cat 5 or greater ethernet cable, which suffices for gaming because it can handle internet speeds of 1,000 Mbps or higher. Outdated cables, however, might not even be able to handle speeds higher than 100 Mbps.

Another thing to consider is how close a game server is to your device, physically. The farther apart you are, the longer it takes for the two to communicate, so the higher your ping will be. Just think of how fast you can communicate with someone sitting beside you versus someone in another country. Good news is some games allow you to choose which game servers your device communicates with. If this is the case for your game, always pick the gamer server closest to your physical location.

Lately my internet connection is having an issue of slow browsing. Download speed is perfectly fine. According to my internet provider, everything is fine with the connection. I just tried doing a ping test to some of the sites I frequently use. I am getting varied ping times between 200ms to 400ms. From what I have read, ideal ping is below 50ms. Does +200ms ping explain the slow web browsing I'm facing lately? How can this be fixed when my ISP says nothing is wrong with the connection?

The ping time only reflects the time it takes to reach a site and negotiate a connection. Pointing at 50ms as being good and 200ms being slow is simplistic - one of the things about ping times is that the distance to the server can dictate minimum times - for example a fast site in Australia will have a ping time of more then 140ms if you are in the USA, mainly due to the speed of light. That said, congested small connections can have very high latencies.

A good way to start diagnosing latency issues is to use (Win)MTR which combines ping and traceroute and can show where latency is coming in, as well as packet loss and consistency which can provide strong indications of congestion and other issues. I'd recommend running this for a while and posting the results here for interpretation.

With Chrome's dev tools, you can emulate a connection with poor latency. Loading a few sites with varying ping settings reveals how much high latency hurts. I measured the time taken for the DOM to be loaded, meaning that the structure of the page is known, even though images, styles, etc. might still be loading.

So, in short: yes, high latency can make webpages load slowly. More complex pages will load noticeably slower, even if their contents aren't very large, because every request has a large delay.

Yes, high ping can slow down your website loading times. When you check the ping time to your frequently visited sites, your computer accesses the website's server then checks the time it took to get there. Logically, if it takes a long time to get information from the website, it will take a long time for you to access it in a browser.

As for decreasing this time (making it faster), eliminate unused clients on your network, upgrade your internet plan (switch from DSL if you have it), or get a higher performance router if you have low WiFi ping.

Generally speaking, no. High latency, what you are calling ping, should not slow down web browsing. You havent given much information on your computer or network, so everything is mere speculation. However, since you said your download speeds are fast, I am assuming your internet connection and internal network is working acceptably.

I have been experiencing weird latency issues in my fresh Archlinux installation. I installed it on a Lenovo Thinkpad X220. The core of the issue is that the wireless connection seems to drop for a given amount of time before restarting as usual. This ends up in very high ping times mixed with lower times. Notice that it happens at random times. I was wondering if there are perhaps any recommendations on this. Some information about the setup:

@zod, disabling IPv6 helped somehow as I can browse without much interruption, so far. The docker seemed to not have any influence. That being said, I do not think is fully solved. To give you an idea of how the ping situation looks like:

Moreover, it seems that whenever there's such a jump, all the responses get back almost immediately. I will give it a few more hours and if the IPv6 disabling lets me browse/install updates and packages without any issues I'll mark it as solve and just keep trying to understand why the ping has such weird delays.

Lower latency, also known as ping, is desirable to achieve that smoother gameplay and user experience we all want, without any lag. If your ping is around 1000ms (1 sec) or higher, it is definitely going to result in players suddenly appearing and disappearing all over the screen, continuous buffering of videos and overall gameplay running incredibly slow. Additionally, games where timing is crucial, like first person shooters and racing games, suffer a greatly diminished experience with high latency. In short, time lag from high latency makes gaming and video streaming far less enjoyable.

It should be noted that some types of internet connections, such as satellite internet connections, have high latency in almost every condition. Internet servers that are located far away from your WiFi network can also increase your chances of experiencing high latency.

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