The thing is, Steam reports the ping incorrectly on the first update of the list. If you do a "quick refresh" after the first update of the list, you will get much more accurate pings.
I would attribute this to the application pinging several IPs continuously and at one time...during the intitial server list update. AFAIK, it was like this with the old server list as well (< 1.6). Do you not think that would cause some slight bit of network congestion that would affect the ping, not to mention the cpu used to process all of those pings? There have been times that when I was updating my Steam client server while also web surfing that a site/page would not load in my web browser until the server list update completed. I know it isn't CPU alone, and I am on Cable, so the congestion caused by the serverlist update causes substantial network traffic, if only for a short time, enough to make the server list pings erroneous. However, my server seems to haver disappeared off the list to, so erroneous pings are not as big a concern to me. On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 01:08:30 +0100, -<GB>-Carpy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Erm well you and your friends must be wired to the Valve office or > something. > > Every single person I speak to has incorrect pings in the master server > list. When they add them to favourites though, the pings are shown correctly > which must mean there is NO problem with us, but a problem with the list > itself. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of spartibus > Sent: 31 August 2004 00:53 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [hlds] HLDS - On Topic > > That's a problem with you; not the server list. > > I personally don't have any problems with it and it displays pings > accurately for me and my friends. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of -<GB>-Carpy > Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 4:48 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [hlds] HLDS - On Topic > > At least if the ping section was ACCURATE then people could choose to > join a > server based on ping. As it is now, servers that are dwn the road from > me, > and when I join ping at 12ms, they show up as 600 - 1800 ping in the > Steam > server list. > > It just doesn't work properly - AT ALL > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Munoz > Sent: 31 August 2004 00:37 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [hlds] HLDS - On Topic > > His server has a very good ping to me, around 24 or so. > I can only guess, as most of us on the list can only do. > > Client communicates with Master list Server > Gets List (XML Stream?) > Parses List and starts at Clients IP address +1 and -1 of first octet > List is displayed by default or preferred sort order as each server is > connected to and verified, measuring ping and polling for number of > players > etc... > > Spartibus say's: > I'm guessing that the 10,000 servers that didn't show either time-out or > are > above 2000 ping to you, thus they aren't displayed in the steam server > browser. > > I have 2 very good connections (3Mb dual T1's and a 1.5/768 ADSL (good > for > me!)) and I get the same results on both. I doubt it's a time out... I > am > getting the same results as Shane. > > Mike ParaDOX Munoz > > www.paradisesgarage.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: spartibus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 6:23 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [hlds] HLDS - On Topic > > I'm guessing that the 10,000 servers that didn't show either time-out or > are > above 2000 ping to you, thus they aren't displayed in the steam server > browser. > > I could be very wrong, but I know that's the case for at least a few > servers, if not ten thousand of them :D > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shane Robinett > Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 3:13 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [hlds] HLDS - On Topic > > Well, if anyone figures it out I'll do what I can to figure out why > exactly > we are missing nearly 10K servers from the list still > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mike Munoz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 5:02 PM > Subject: RE: [hlds] HLDS - On Topic > > > Funny, that's exactly what I wanted to know. So I searched every file > in > the > > Steam directory and nothing. > > Near as I can tell it is stored in Windows Virtual Memory. You can > observer > > this by watching the amount of virtual memory used go up as you > refresh > the > > list, and stop if you stop refreshing (Open Windows Task Manager in > XP, in > > view menu select columns, then check the Virtual Memory Size > checkbox). > This > > could also just be the extra memory needed by the application to sort > and > > display the list, but I don't think so. If you exit Steam it frees up > the > > memory (obviously). Upon restarting Steam it will download a new list > when > > you open the Server browser to the Internet Tab. The full list will > always > > take up approximately the same size of virtual Memory. > > > > I didn't get to spend too much time on this, as I was supposed to be > > working. :) It just piqued my curiosity. I had to know. > > > > Mike ParaDOX Munoz > > > > www.paradisesgarage.com > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Shane Robinett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 3:03 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [hlds] HLDS - On Topic > > > > Does anyone know if/where/how to rip the list of game servers provided > by > > the STEAM client? I get 19,000 or so out of the 28,099 that w00t.net > pulls > > from the master server tables. I want to parse the data and figure > out > > which servers are NOT being displayed. > > > > My 19,000 is with ALL filters removed. > > - > > Shane > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > > please visit: > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
