unusual ping times

MadProgrammer · 2001-12-01T16:34:06

hehe, you can tell i''m writing the networking part of my game now, just look at the author of the threads...... anyway, i have a simple thread in my game that waits for messages of the type PING (i defined that) and then outputs the time it took to ping the game server. well, this is where the wierd part comes in: i send ping packets to the server (which immediately returns them to me). when i send the packets with very little time inbetween (about 100 times/sec), the ping i''m calculating is about 20-30 (should be right). when i send packets w/ large gaps in between, the ping jumps to 100-300. at the moment the only packets that get sent are my ping ones. why am i getting larger times for spaced out packets? network stats: linksys 10/100 4port router both computers have 10/100 cards in them both computers of good speed does the router keep a temporary cache of routes or something? i''m intrigued