Ping Rates Accurate or Hacked?

Faramir · Post by **Faramir** » Wed May 26, 2004 5:52 pm

Hello,

Anybody knows why in some servers the pings are totally unreal? Pings of 1, 2 5 or 10 are "normal" values in those servers...

If I run a server to play in a 100 Mbps LAN the lowest pings are 30-40. So... The conclusion is clear... Hacked pings?

All we know that many players look just before playing their pings... If the ping is OK (<140 or < 150) they stay to play. If the ping is high they run away as soon as possible...

Good trick if i can hack the pings, so the player is totally defenceless becouse he has less arguments about supposed lag...

Speedracer · Post by **Speedracer** » Wed May 26, 2004 6:43 pm

Hack the pings? Is it possible? Is it wise?

Post by **Tank Program** » Wed May 26, 2004 8:51 pm

I believe the low pings you are seeing are due to some sort of memory overflow in the dedicated server that starts after aproximently 3 months of uptime. Or something like that. The conclusion I have presented is due to me observing that after 2-3 months of uptime on my Tigers Network Armagetron servers, the pings have become unrealistic.

nicolas.b · Post by **nicolas.b** » Wed May 26, 2004 10:55 pm

wow, interesting theory to say the least (tank's).

speaking for myself, i've shown up plenty of times on the goshdarn servers and had pings in the single digits. but i'm not a hacker. go figure.

apropos, iceman mentioned something recently about ADDING to ping, altho the trick didn't seem to work for me...

iceman · Post by **iceman** » Wed May 26, 2004 11:20 pm

yes hacking someones ping is very possible and makes their game a total unstable f*uckup

should i post details hmmmm maybe not

Speedracer · Post by **Speedracer** » Thu May 27, 2004 4:48 am

oh...

shhhhhh... you shouldn't talk so loud..

Faramir · Post by **Faramir** » Fri May 28, 2004 11:06 am

Tank Program wrote: after 2-3 months of uptime on my Tigers Network Armagetron servers, the pings have become unrealistic.

2-3 months uptime! LOL!

I usually restart the armagetron-dedicated process once every two-three days...

Tank please don't forget to talk with the admin of GLL

iceman · Post by **iceman** » Fri May 28, 2004 11:36 am

as a temporary fix why not have the server automatic restart each day

thats until you find and fix the dodgy code

Post by **Tank Program** » Sat May 29, 2004 12:50 am

Can't do that, because for some stupid reason for it to log in with Master Server the firewall has to be turned off...

iceman · Post by **iceman** » Sat May 29, 2004 12:59 am

Marrow · Post by **Marrow** » Sat May 29, 2004 10:18 am

I had a ping of 29 on tigers network armagoshdarn clone...strange eh?

Post by **Tank Program** » Sat May 29, 2004 10:56 am

It's the uptime I tell you. Too long and the pings get wacked. Would explain it happening on Armagoshdarn a while back...

iceman · Post by **iceman** » Sat May 29, 2004 12:24 pm

well if its using these wacked pings in its ping charity calulations then that would explain a lot of the lag problems

subby · Post by **subby** » Sat May 29, 2004 7:08 pm

Well i think we know where the priority now lies hey, i'm gonna look at it, even if it's gonna kill me!