Help on understanding Ping times

The number is the time in milliseconds it takes to reach the destination server. Depending on how close the server is, the number of hops between you and the destination server and traffic this number will vary.

For a more detailed view, you cando a tracert (trace route) which will show the different hops to the destination as well as the time to reach each.

You'll have to know either the ip address or the name of the destination machine to do either a ping or tracert.

Depending onthe number of hops and traffic, 500ms can be a long delay. IMO, for 10 hops or more 500 ms to 700ms is reasonable, but fewer than 10 hops is not good. You'll find this information by doing a tracert.

For a more thorough understanding of what the ping times mean, see the TechRepublic article by Matthew Lehman CCNA, May 9 2001, Measuring Throughput in a TCP/IP Network https://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220010509leh01.htm&FROM=columnBrowse

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For gamers a ping over 300 sucks. What type of connection do you have. At 500-700 you're game experience will be slow but the others will complain about you dragging them down too.
Get DSL or cable. If you already have one of those then you've got settings issues go to the folowing site to test your speed and get advice on resolving slowness.

http://www.bandwidthplace.com/forum.html