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Server Talk => Server Discussion => Topic started by: Carlitos on August 16, 2007, 04:03:23 pm

Title: wtf are those
Post by: Carlitos on August 16, 2007, 04:03:23 pm

ok so everytime i request servers, there are always some strange wacko servers, cause them have 8 player limit, and got like 32 players playing them. Got 9999 ping, so what are they? I tryied to join one time and i cant. They dont have BE wso... hacker servers?

Title: Re: wtf are those
Post by: .::Blaze::. on August 16, 2007, 05:40:21 pm

well many reasons why the ping is the way it is...
1. if you live farther away from them the pign won't be good
2. The map could be a problem if its a made map it could make ping high
3. the server owners internet could be like terrible dial up which makes u have bad pign
so if the ping is ever 9999 then u woun't be able to join..

Title: Re: wtf are those
Post by: Dr. Zombi3 on August 16, 2007, 05:45:31 pm

Yeah i think ur right blaze because i live in alaska and i get alot of those servers

Title: Re: wtf are those
Post by: .::Blaze::. on August 16, 2007, 05:47:33 pm

yea..im in mid usa so i never have problems with servers unless its the maps problems....well glad i could help [:

Title: Re: wtf are those
Post by: Carlitos on August 16, 2007, 05:56:30 pm

theres only like 3 on 100 so no problem, but its strange

Title: Re: wtf are those
Post by: STRIPE on September 06, 2007, 11:07:33 am

The 9999 ping-servers need to be portforwarded

Title: Re: wtf are those
Post by: Ttil_Np.csWoW on September 06, 2007, 01:58:58 pm

i know that sometimes servers for example have that an 8 max but have 16 people this is sometimes because there are bots witch seem to count as players

Title: Re: wtf are those
Post by: FliesLikeABrick on September 06, 2007, 02:44:24 pm

The 9999 ping can be caused by two other things that haven't been mentioned yet:
1) the server host has not forwarded the ports properly
2) YOUR ISP is blocking the small UDP packets used to ping servers after a certain number of them are sent.  This is because small UDP packets are often used as part of DDoS attacks and also port-scans, both of which are things that ISPs may or may not want to block, depending on their ToS

Title: Re: wtf are those
Post by: Yes on September 06, 2007, 05:20:40 pm

I only get that when i play in Australia servers.

Title: Re: wtf are those
Post by: §hinobi on September 09, 2007, 04:47:16 am

O.o; Maybe it's a zombie server or whatnot? I don't think it matters, though, unless you're playing in the server. Your ping prolly wouldn't be 9999 in there anyways.

Title: Re: wtf are those
Post by: xReaperx on September 09, 2007, 06:08:45 am

I've got some of them at the end of my list too, i don't usually visit the higher pinged servers, 200~250 suits me fine.

Title: Re: wtf are those
Post by: Clawbug on September 09, 2007, 12:00:33 pm

I believe the ping is 9999 when there is no reply received when the ping-cmd is sent to the server.

In other words, ping time out, possible due to packet loss.