Ping

[DageLV 940]

To wich one of those i can belive its true?

 

 

Tanki says 999 ping (Non-Stop) and while tanki says 999, speedtest shows that i have only 26 ping.

[MiR4cUl0uS 815]

There seems to be some issues with lags I'm sure the devs should be working on it!

[Regency 2,099]

http://en.tankiwiki.com/High_ping

 

Hi !Check this link: High Ping î

Edited September 29, 2016 by Regency

[DageLV 940]

Hi !

 

Check this link: High Ping

There is no link.

Also this issue is not from my side. As you can see, from me it is 26 ping.

[Mr.Ace 1,116]

Happens to me too... its not our internet everything except tanki works super awesome just not tanki :mellow:
 

Edited September 29, 2016 by Mr.Ace

[BlackWasp777 4,498]

To wich one of those i can belive its true?

 

 

Tanki says 999 ping (Non-Stop) and while tanki says 999, speedtest shows that i have only 26 ping.

 

You can believe both.

 

Ping is meassured between two defined points in the network.. lets say between your computer (point A) and the target server (point B ). The "ping value" represents the roundtriptime of a packet on the internet from "point A to point B and back to point A", meassured in milliseconds.

 

 

If you run a speedtest, your computer connected to a special speedtest server in Riga and meassured a ping of 26 milliseconds.

If you connect to the tanki servers, the client meassured a ping of 999 milliseconds (which is the max value it can give.. you can assume it is higher then 999 milliseconds in real).

 

The tankiservers are not in Riga, they are in Netherlands (city of Amsterdam as far as I know).

 

This means two things:

1) your home is most likely closer to the speedtest server in Riga, then your home is to Amsterdam. Therefore the ping time to Riga is naturaly shorter towards Riga then towards Amsterdam.

 

2) The tankiservers get overloaded from time to time and then they can not reply to ping requests immediatly.. or reply very, very late => the roundtrip time will become very, very long.. or you might get no answer at all ;)

 

So.. in some certain cases the network between your home and Tanki has an "temporary issue" and creates a delay in the packet transmission.. but this is very, very rare. I have this effect 2..3 times a year.

Most of the times you can blame tanki themselfes, as they cut down the amount of servers they run, and so increase the load on each server. So the servers get into overload on a regular base, and ping goes up and up..

 

 

If you want to meassure the true ping towards tanki servers you can enter this in a command line window (cmd.exe):

 

 

for RU1:

    ping c1.tankionline.com

 

for RU15:

    ping c15.tankionline.com

 

for EN1:

    ping c57.tankionline.com

 

 

 

Edited September 29, 2016 by BlackWasp777

[DageLV 940]

 

So they could locate more servers around the europe, america, russia and other places where people are playing from. Lets say germany or UK? (Would be good for me) or even better in Moscov? (Moscow is realy near to Latvia)

[BlackWasp777 4,498]

Try to run the pingtest now.

Now (right now) the servers are closed down for players down due to maintenance, and you can find out how good your connection actially is.

 

The problem is not the location.. it adds maybe 10..20 ms per direction.

The problem is the overload they run.

[DageLV 940]

PingTest

SpeedTest

Edited September 29, 2016 by DageLV

[CooperO 7,956]

Try to run the pingtest now.

Now (right now) the servers are closed down for players down due to maintenance, and you can find out how good your connection actially is.

 

The servers aren't down. If you do get that message, clear your browser and flash cache.

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@DageLV, the high ping could be caused by a number of things, one of which @BlackWasp777 described earlier. It could also be caused by something on your end (running CCleaner might help). When I just got my pc, my ping went crazy all the time when playing TO while my internet was working just fine. I found out it was caused by the IPv6 connection, after disabling that one, the problem was solved. For some people it's the IPv4 connection causing a problem though.

[BlackWasp777 4,498]

The servers aren't down. If you do get that message, clear your browser and flash cache.

funny thing was, those steps did not lead to success (cleared global Flashplayer cache twice.. - as I run the standalone flashplayer).

 

What worked was to take a browser, go to the tanki forum page that lists the flashplayer server links (there) and click one of the server links there. It loaded the game in my browser; and afterwards it worked also fine with my standalone Flash configurations that I used for the last months.

[CooperO 7,956]

Standalone Flash player uses the Internet Explorer cache, so you have to clear the IE cache, but I'm glad you found a fix!