What's your ping time to playonline.com?

[uku]

Average ping time (a measure of latency) could makes or breaks a multiplayer online game experience. It's largely affected by distance, as well as traffic, line condition etc. It is crucial in FFXI, for instance, NM claiming.

Just wondering what's your average ping time to www.playonline.com, where the server is based in Japan I believe, which can give a rough idea on your ping time to FFXI server. It would be the best if you can post your result along with your location.

Here's how to test it (for those of you who don't know):

Start > Run > cmd, then type "ping www.playonline.com" in the command prompt.

 

[uku]

Pinging www.playonline.com [43.253.220.30] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 43.253.220.30: bytes=32 time=282ms TTL=242
Reply from 43.253.220.30: bytes=32 time=289ms TTL=242
Reply from 43.253.220.30: bytes=32 time=281ms TTL=242
Reply from 43.253.220.30: bytes=32 time=285ms TTL=242

Ping statistics for 43.253.220.30:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 281ms, Maximum = 289ms, Average = 284ms

Location: UK

 

[Tyrath]

213 ms.

US.

I'm assuming smaller is better here?

 

[Falsey]

Average 183ms.

Chicago, IL

 

[uku]

213 ms.

US.

I'm assuming smaller is better here?

Yep. Basically small ping time means fast response

 

[Altheya]

I have an average of 95ms ping time (Singapore) however, it sure doesn't feel like I'm any faster than anyone.

How about information on chest drop's speed? Seems like the world knows what dropped from the chest before I do.

 

[rampagesama]

I have an average of 95ms ping time (Singapore) however, it sure doesn't feel like I'm any faster than anyone.

How about information on chest drop's speed? Seems like the world knows what dropped from the chest before I do.

They look in the treasure pool before it displays in the chat log.

 

[Altheya]

They look in the treasure pool before it displays in the chat log.

Oh. Never knew that the log lags that much more over the pool. Thanks!

 

[Kerowynn]

198 average, I'm in the Chicago area.

 

[Myrrh]

Reply from 43.253.131.24: Bytes=32 time=690 TTL=241
Reply from 43.253.131.24: Bytes=32 time=774 TTL=241
Reply from 43.253.131.24: Bytes=32 time=679 TTL=241
Reply from 43.253.131.24: Bytes=32 time=763 TTL=241

Ping statistics for 43.253.131.24:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, lost = 0 < 0% loss >,
Approximate round trip times in Milli- seconds:
Minimum = 679 Ms, Maximum = 774 Ms, Average = 726Ms
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Mine bad? <_<

 

[Lanien]

That is a horrible ping Myrrh lol

196 Average

 

[Tymon]

That's awful myrrh, I don't know how you play if that is consistent.

Try it again when it doesn't look like you're lagging in game.

 

[Myrrh]

That's what I don't get, I don't lag or anything. Things are rather responsive. I get the odd lag here and there but who doesn't. <_>

 

[Tymon]

You probably pinged it during a lag spike. Do it again later on

 

[Vorhan]

191 average but this was done on Christmas day @ 12:30 pm est. Don't know if server activity diminishes ping speed.

 

[Tyrath]

You think Myrrhs is bad. lol lemme try it from my dorm next month >.>

 

[Myrrh]

It could be laggy because I'm currently running 6 things on the internet right now. 3 of which are computers updating, 1 is a Ps3 playing online games, my brother is being gay with DDR on his 360, and my main computer is playing FFXI.

 

[Lanien]

Yeah, that is probably why your ping is horrible. Try it when you are just running FFXI alone.

 

[Khajit]

242 in bermuda on average

 

[Rannoch]

197, US Wisconsin.