What is Ping as Fast As Possible 

"That was 3 hours ago, Dick."

So, the lower the ping the better?

More people need to watch this.

This video is done so well! With the animations and everything, it makes it a very entertaining video and easy to understand. Great job!

I hate having 120+ Fps on games and then have a shitty high ping -_- Gets real fucking annoying xD

I have very high ping time when talking to attractive girls. Alcohol does improve connectivity.

"Experience" was misspelled at 1:24.

This is a big problem in multiplayer fps games. In a 1v1 one player has a 3-5 second reaction time while another only has 1-2 second reaction time. I'd see someone and instantly die, in the killcam he saw me a good couple seconds before I saw him.

Can you make a video that develops on top of this topic regarding what tech or global companies in IT have been doing in trying to minimize ping or are they even doing so. THanks!

Great video! Video idea: what are master passwords, e.g. in the context of password managers? How does the technology work, and what does it mean for the algorithm if a company decides to put in a "backdoor"?

Just checked out your channel and i gotta say you're awesome, keep up the good work!

I like this channel alot lately. Keep those videos coming! :)

1:25 EXPERIANCE instead of EXPERIENCE....

Nice video Linus! You explained it very very nice!

yay new episode! been waiting long for this!

Thanks! This was very clear and now I understand what ping is! Helpful as always!

I hope quantum entanglement/teleportation will one day be a thing. Having a ping of 0ms would change everything ever. Imagine controlling a robot in realtime with unlimited range, imagine skyping with someone on mars like he was in front if you instead of waiting 15 minutes

the reason he picked the names "Dick and Jane" is because they are the names in some of the oldest books that were given to kids in school that taught the fundamentals of reading writing and arithmetic. I think they are still used today in some books.

This is a VERY well made video, nice job!

These videos are awesome. Thanks, guys!

I cant be the only one who cannot keep a straight face when he says "Dick"! 😂

ITT: People don't know that Dick is a name.

thanks and happy holidays to all

I don't often subscribe; however to your channel I have. Excellent work. I was most excited to hear you start to break into the advanced topic of jitter and wander. Further quick explanation of jitter/wander & QoS as remedies along with some great graphics would be appreciated!

THANK YOU. Too many people think their 20mb connection means they can play games online and don't understand why their 500ms latency is causing lag.

Experiance? :p

MERRY CHRISTMAS LINUS.GREAT VIDEOS AS ALWAYS

Very educational. Something to consider would be to inform the viewer about how to decrease ping time. What sorts of measures could be taken to lower ping in games? Do we need to simply look for a better internet provider or is there minor things that can increase performance? Thanks Linus!

Great lesson, Linus!

Linus, can you do a video explaining what Memory Interface Bus Bit actually mean? Like the 192bit and the 256 bit.

I love these videos. Thank you!!

I like this explanation video, it's not dragged out to make the 10 minute mark, he explained more in 3 minutes than other guy did in 16 minutes.

99% of the comments aren't suitable for kids

Your text guy spelt Experience wrong, just saying.

Everyone needs a Techquickie covering the basic aspects of Banwidth.

Could you make a video explaining the differnces and what is Double Buffering/Triple Buffering

Hehe...Dick. I'm so immature.

This video is so dirty

Great explanation and examples!

FYI latency to a gaming server is also affected on how far away it is. As in another country etc. Its less about the actual range, because electronic signals travels at the speed of light, but more about the amounts of hops the signal has to take between different ISP provider level "routers" (DSLAM etc) and the gaming server. The time the "router" takes to process the signal and send it to the next hop is actually what is the least time effective and ads to your latency rather than the physical range. For example. I live in Norway. I have less hops to many East coast US servers, because of the trans Atlantic underwater line, than I have to some gaming servers in South of Europe.

1:26 Experiance lol

I saw that "experiance" typo XD 1:26

Your ping can affect your bandwidth, as in TCP/IP the reception of a packet needs to be acknowledged or the sender will stop sending, or resend the unacknowledged packets. This depends on the Window Scaling setting of the TCP/IP connection, if I'm correct, but there is a maximum to that (of 1GB?), at which point your ping starts limiting your bandwidth. This will not happen in most consumer setups, unless you have a really high ping, but can affect larger systems that push many GB/s.

Great explanation! Really helped

Ping is more of a utility that (usually) uses the ICMP protocol to send small packages and waits for a response. Ping is NOT the latency itself, and it sounded like you were trying to put it that way. For e.g., Ping is commonly used just to test if a route exists between the sender and the receiver. I love your videos, but I didn't like this explanation, it was a little confusing and misleading IMHO.

how many channels this dude have

The answer to the question is perfectly delivered in the very first 27 seconds of the video. Well done!

awesome stuff Linus. became a fan in 2013 and will continue to be a fan of all your stuff. oh yea, and Slick too,lol

Did anyone else spot the spelling mistake in this video?

Where's the jitter video? :(

Nice! Thanks was just wonderinghow ping works and what it means

I just encountered your video. It was the first of the many results that actually explained what I wanted to know. Bonus, it explained latency, which I also didn't understand.

anyone laugh when linus says. dick?

I always thought Ping was one of the more self explanatory aspects of online gaming.

Can you please review the Aerocool GT- S. I am looking for a good case for a gaming pc and that is one I am looking at. I have looked and I can't find a review. And plus your reviews are awesome.

That was very helpful. Thanks.

Experiance?

i haz all the ping. 3000ms

Great info thanks so much

linus make a video about soundcards what they are doing and how they work

i get 36-40 ping on LoL

Very good information indeed...thank you

Thanks for the video Linus! Always wanted to know what's the proper definition of Ping. =)

my ping is always high cuz i live in greece, too unfair , i have a negative kd, once it dropped down to 100 , 1,7 was my kd

Am I the only one that gets very distracted by the speech-to-text? I really don't think it helps.

and after 9 years or something, they STILL haven't linked another video

Thanks... very informative!

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In planetside 2 my ping was 28000 (my download speed is 0.37mbps)

Does quality/age of a line affect ping as well? Like e.g. very old DSL line vs new DSL?

Simple and short. I just like it.

Wow a bunch of computer nerds hear the name Dick and you light up the comment section. I think you people need to get outside more.

I got 1 ping using speedtest.net with cat 7 lan and fibre broadband.so long suckers XD

how about discussing what are good and bad speeds for gaming, streaming etc etc

So Good explanation 😍👏

uhgaynst =/= against. ;D Love ya Linus.

When can we get 10GB/per second downloads and 1GB/ps uploads? Would we still have to worry about latency?

Love these videos Linus - use that spellcheck before publishing though ...

You should do a followup on using QoS to help with jitter and latency.

Always reliable... thanks man..you should be my computer network teacher.

Thanks, good stuff and as always my question was answered.

Thing is even bandwidth often doesn't matter, unless you have several people streaming videos, netflix wont fully utilize your typical cable internet bandwidth.

Thanks for simple explain.

When is Jitter going to be talked about? I'm sure that's the consistency of ping, or standard deviation...but you say it? Also, any perspectives of mobile hard or solid state drives would be good. ALSO file compressions for video...? THANKS LINUS

So if we were to fall more toward the direction of video game streaming (ie Playstation Now), would that make online play near impossible to accomplish without lag since we would have to receive the game textures and maps AND the other players' location and bullet trajectory?

I hope Techquickie is accepting requests for possible videos because I have one. I have been wondering for a while about the Blue, Green and Black WD hard drive types. I found some sites where they talk about them but not in-depth information. I would like to know more about those types of hard drives in more detail and if these classifications apply to other than WD made hard drives. And thank you in advance if you decide to make such a video.

what would be the best gaming router. ...BTW your explanation of ping was great could you cover jitter

So what actually determines ping value? Is it the isp? or physical distance between your device and the server? What is that ping number based upon? Thanks

Nice explanation!)

Linus, one of your editors misspelled "experience". Just thought you would want to know.

Hope you can make a video on "effective ways" to lower ping in online games! or if you have already made a video, please link it!

Thank you, really simple and helpfull

thank u for all this useful information i didnt even know u had this channel thanks :D

Thnx for info bro

You're a good teacher ,many student can pass through your teaching

You d a great job explaining

Merry Christmas to you and yours Linus and family work family too

This was perfect. Well explained

I'm a bit confused, does this mean that I will have lower ping if let's say my Upload speed is at 500 mbit/s and download speed is at 1000 mbit/s compared to my current one which is at 250 mbit/s download and 10 mbit/s upload ( I usually have around 30-50 ping when I am connected to servers which are located in Amsterdam, Paris and London).

Imagine a running race(the distance between your PC and the Server/PC/network device you want to connect to)... the time it takes you to finish it is your Ping.... say you can only run at a fixed speed(speed your request will travel across the copper/fibre to the server) so as a result you always get to the end of the race at the same time...Your internet connection would represent the amount of stuff you can carry while running. A stronger internet connection = more stuff carried... However you still run at the same speed during the race and so get to the end of the race at the same time(but with more stuff)... This is why the only way I know of to improve your Ping is a lot is to move physically closer to the server. This is a very simple example and there is a bunch of other crap affecting your Ping but this covers the basics and should help you understand better...