How to INCREASE ping.

[LuftWaffle]

In certain games with an awkward netcode (cough cough Battlefield 3), it is often beneficial to have a HIGHER ping.

How do you increase ping and have a decent amount of control over it?

 

[Aurozus]

There might be some software out there that could do this for you, or you could stick a few things on download whilst you play, wouldn't recommend it though.

 

[Master467]

Download a steam game when you play? Open UTorrent and start downloading songs or something, as it uses more of your bandwidth then steam?

 

[Kewlx25]

I know FreeBSD PFSense has an option to simulate latency, jitter, and packet-loss.

As for downloading on the side to load your network, that will not only increase latency, assuming you're saturating your network, but also add in lots of jitter and packetloss, which will hurt.

 

[Aurozus]

I know FreeBSD PFSense has an option to simulate latency, jitter, and packet-loss.

As for downloading on the side to load your network, that will not only increase latency, assuming you're saturating your network, but also add in lots of jitter and packetloss, which will hurt.

I'm fairly sure that downloading games can cause high ping, sometimes even leads to the game becoming unplayable due to it.

 

[Beachnative]

Open up the command prompt and use a weighted ping command try this:

ping 192.168.1.1 -l 6500 -t

Use the IP address of your router where 192.168.1.1 is and change the 6500 to a number larger or smaller as needed for latency(cannot exceed 65500)

I used this command to test latency over a wireless network over 13 miles and worked great to help set the max payload size (the 6500 above)