[ENet-discuss] How to get the ping?

[Peter Soxberger]

Thats good to know!

I also want to get a correct ping value. Therefor I searched for something similar to gettimeofday() for windows but I can't find anything. Which function should I use under Windows to measure the ping in milliseconds?

Peter Soxberger

-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 23:41:48 -0700
> Von: Lee Salzman <lsalzman1 at cox.net>
> An: Discussion of the ENet library <enet-discuss at cubik.org>
> Betreff: Re: [ENet-discuss] How to get the ping?

> The roundTripTime field should never be interpreted as a reliable all
> purpose ping. It's solely for ENet's internal use. YMMV. Buyer beware.
> Caveat emptor. Etc.
> 
> The best way to get an accurate ping for specific purposes it to implement
> a ping tailored for that purpose. Send a time value to the other end, have
> the other end send it back, check the difference, and do with it as you
> will.
> 
> Lee
> 
> Ben Johnson wrote:
> > Does anyone know how I would get the actual ping to a peer in Enet?
> >
> > I know you can get peer->roundTripTime.. but that's not the actual
> > ping. It's an averaged value over the last x seconds. It also seems to
> > start at 500 by default.. and because it's averaged, it takes a while
> > for it to settle down to the actual ping.
> >
> > Thus.. when players join a game.. for the first 30seconds they warp
> > all over the place because when I extrapolate by the latency it moves
> > them forward by ~500ms, when the actual ping is like.. 50ms.
> >
> > Also, in my server lobby when I want to ping all servers.. I either
> > have to wait for a few seconds until the ping levels out (seems
> > pointless), or I get a highly inaccurate ping of ~400 or so.
> >
> >
> > So surely there must be a way to get the raw, unaveraged ping of a
> > peer? The very most recent one.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ben.
> >   
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