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Your REAL ping is what you see on the scoreboard and with F6 or "stat net", BUT after it hits 255 it wraps around to zero and goes up again. This is due to the Original DEVs only using one byte (8 bits, up to 255 in decimal, FF in hex, 1111 1111 in binary) to hold your ping information.

Very low pings of 0-10 are practically impossible unless you are next-door to the server, or playing on a LAN. Even at a LAN party or playing head-to-head on two computers connected to each other you will have a ping around 5ms or higher.

If you don't believe me, write down the server IP and your ping, exit the game, hit Start > Run > type in "cmd" > hit enter or click OK, then type "ping xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -l 512" (replace 'x's with the server IP numbers). That will show you a more accurate representation of your ping, but you have to add ms to represent what you will see in-game with all the other factors that affect your ping.

So please, stop asking "what's my ping?" 

whats my ping?

And I'm sure more replies like this will follow 

Very low pings of 0-10 are practically impossible unless you are next-door to the server, or playing on a LAN. Even at a LAN party or playing head-to-head on two computers connected to each other you will have a ping around 5ms or higher.

Belgian players often have ping between 5-10 on english/german/dutch/french servers. I can manage to have under 10 ping on most servers and I'm on wifi

Btw I often see players asking for ping when they want to show the world they have high ping. It's their way of saying "look at my ping. If I don't pay well it's because of that"

Btw I often see players asking for ping when they want to show the world they have high ping. It's their way of saying "look at my ping. If I don't pay well it's because of that"

Indeed! If you didnt say this i would say.
Its so annoying and thats 100% what they are trying to say. 98 honor player asking whats my ping and oops..suddenly it shows 75. then hes like " see??? that's why i just died!!"