What is the meaning of the term “ping” and how can I reduce it?
When you say “how can I reduce it”, that tells me that you’re asking about ping from a gamer’s perspective, and that is how I will approach this question. However, note that the word “ping” is actually the name for a TCP/IP connectivity troubleshooting tool. The ping tool works by having your computer send some packets (chunks of data) to another computer and then wait for a response. The ping you’re probably thinking of is what some people call “latency”, the more appropriate term for it. Network latency is sometimes called ping because the ping tool reports the results of a ping in milliseconds (ms), the amount of time it took for the packets sent from your computer to reach the other computer and back. So, to sum up, the ping you’re thinking of is another word for latency, used to describe how long it took for a computer to answer when your computer tried to contact it. There are many factors that affect network latency, and I will describe the ways that a gamer on his or her home c
