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  2. Lag (video games) - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. Paping - Wikipedia

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    Paping (pronounced pah ping) is a computer network administration utility used to test the reachability of a host on an Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) network and to measure the time it takes to connect to a specified port. The name is a play on the word ping, another computer network administration utility.

  4. Latency (engineering) - Wikipedia

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    For example, suppose a process commands that a computer card's voltage output be set high-low-high-low and so on at a rate of 1000 Hz. The operating system schedules the process for each transition (high-low or low-high) based on a hardware clock such as the High Precision Event Timer. The latency is the delay between the events generated by ...

  5. Ping of death - Wikipedia

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    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]

  6. Packet loss - Wikipedia

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    Packet loss is either caused by errors in data transmission, typically across wireless networks, [1] [2] or network congestion. [3]: 36 Packet loss is measured as a percentage of packets lost with respect to packets sent. The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) detects packet loss and performs retransmissions to ensure reliable messaging.

  7. Time to live - Wikipedia

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    The original DARPA Internet Protocol's RFC describes [1]: §1.4 TTL as: . The Time to Live is an indication of an upper bound on the lifetime of an internet datagram.It is set by the sender of the datagram and reduced at the points along the route where it is processed.

  8. Ping - Wikipedia

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    Ping, the alias of Hua Mulan in the animated film Mulan; Ping the Elastic Man, a comic strip character introduced in The Beano in 1938; Professor Ping, a character in the film Barbarella; Ping, a character in Carole Wilkinson's novel Dragonkeeper; Po (Kung Fu Panda) or Ping Xiao Po, the protagonist of the Kung Fu Panda franchise Mr. Ping, Po's ...

  9. Sping - Wikipedia

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    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.