Lower Your Ping

Okay, so i was playing Left 4 Dead today and have had this annoying lagg for quite a bit. My graphics card Contributes but one problem is my Ping is normal 200+MS while playing Which gives me 20-100 FPS. So how would i go about lowering my ping.

i found that it depends if you click on quick match or search, the ping varies with which server you are connected to, sometimes you are connected to a server thats steam powered and sometimes your connected to a dedicated team server, the dedicated servers are the ones that you may get best connection with, the steam servers are pap.

Hello Kidfork,
Is your computer hard wired to your router or do you connect through a wireless connection ? follow the link and carry out the speed test, just to see how good your connection is, post your results and we will see, also does the game get laggy when playing off line ?,


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im sticking to my previous statement, i play left4dead a lot, and i found that certain servers are terrible to play on, delays of upto 4 seconds on key presses. just choose custom match dedicated servers when you play and all your ping troubles will disappear.

I would have to agree with MrNeeds, looking at your ping on the speed test you should be getting a better gaming experience than your getting.

Yeah i would have to agree, it would look to be the servers your connecting to, as the speed test is giving you a ping of 39, so just check the pings before connecting to a server.