WTFast?

AlexTech0x

Hey guys, using WTFast it says i should have 170 ping but in game i have usually 50-ish more than what it says.
Is that due to bad ESO servers or something else?

wayfarerx

Ping is a measure of how fast a signal moves between your computer and another computer. If you test against two different servers you will get two different results depending on things like geography, network topology, etc.

AlexTech0x

I know what ping is, if i pick the WTFast server to be the one in Texas ( where the megaserver is i think? ) i still get 50 ping less than in game.

Lava_Croft

ESO has terrible networking code and the ping values will always be considerably higher than with a game that has been built by professional engineers.

AlexTech0x

That is clear, more if you take frames into consideration.
3 people using skills on a boss = 240 ping
20 people standing doing nothing = 150+ more ping than usual

heng14rwb17_ESO

My ping is also higher in game.

Nestor

In game Ping is an aggregate of all the game operations, not an ICMP response to a PING from a Router or Server.

So, WTFast is only useful to see if there is network issue in the internet core causing increased Ping times, and this is only a comparison of responses over two measurement times to see if that is an issue. An attempt to index third party ping times to a game server is not going to be consistent.

In other words, WTFast is not going to tell you much about the performance of this game.

And, if your seeing slow ping responses in game, have you set Port Triggering for the games required ports? If not, your Ping times are probably going to be slower.

AlexTech0x

I have, yeah. Didn't help much, Cyro is always 400 ping but i guess everybody have that problem.

GreenSoup2HoT

Lava_Croft wrote: »

ESO has terrible networking code and the ping values will always be considerably higher than with a game that has been built by professional engineers.

Shots fired. Pew Pew.

Mady

WTFast is *** with ESO, believe me!