On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 03:24:51AM +0000, unbelver at brain.jpl.nasa.gov wrote:
> 
> But really, are ping stats really important?  There are only 2 cases
> where I've seen ping stats being used.  The first is at the end of an
> INL game report, and the 2nd is for offence scummers to find someone
> to pick on.  We'll there's 3.  I use it to see how my network is
> doing, but I use instantaneous pings for that, not the running
> average.

Weenies like leemy use it to justify forcing people to play with 50%
loss, because for the first 15 minutes of the game it was 0%, so the
reported ping stats say 10%.
 -Tom