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[citation needed] The lower one's ping is, the lower the latency is and the less lag the player will experience. High ping and low ping are commonly used terms in online gaming, where high ping refers to a ping that causes a severe amount of lag; while any level of ping may cause lag, severe lag is usually indicated by a ping of over 100 ms. [4]
A ping of death is a type of attack on a computer system that involves sending a malformed or otherwise malicious ping to a computer. [1] In this attack, a host sends hundreds of ping requests with a packet size that is large or illegal to another host to try to take it offline or to keep it preoccupied responding with ICMP Echo replies. [2]
Sping is short for "spam ping", and is related to pings from blogs using trackbacks, called trackback spam.Pings are messages sent from blog and publishing tools to a centralized network service (a ping server) providing notification of newly published posts or content.
A Minecraft server is a player-owned or business-owned multiplayer game server for the 2011 Mojang Studios video game Minecraft.In this context, the term "server" often refers to a network of connected servers, rather than a single machine. [1]