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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > An: Discussion of the ENet library <[email protected]> > 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > ENet-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.cubik.org/mailman/listinfo/enet-discuss -- GMX startet ShortView.de. Hier findest Du Leute mit Deinen Interessen! Jetzt dabei sein: http://www.shortview.de/[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ ENet-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cubik.org/mailman/listinfo/enet-discuss
