Making a Ping meter

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#1

Hi, I got an idea to make a ping meter for my game. To display it to the player and warn if there is a chance of getting disconnected.

I had no idea how to do this because the network things are unknown to me.

I don’t need the full code for it, can you just push me in the right direction?

Thanks.

#2

I’m not sure your application makes sense, but if you want to have the client ping the server periodically, you can just have a RemoteFunction in ReplicatedStorage:

Server side:

function remoteFunction.OnServerInvoke(player)
    return true
end

Client side:

local function Ping()
    local start = os.clock() -- or tick() or whatever
    remoteFunction:InvokeServer()
    return os.clock() - start
end

print("Ping: " .. Ping() .. " seconds")

The server pinging clients is harder, because you shouldn’t use RemoteFunctions for that. You can use two RemoteEvents instead.

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#3

This is how I would do it:

To make a ping metter I would make a type of communication between server and client (which is what ping does) and use tick() for that.

So basically, you will need to use tick() 2 times, in the server and then in the client and using a remote event for this.

So it would look like:

runService.Heartbeat:Connect(function()
       remoteEvent:FireAllClients(tick())
end)

(I forgot if Heartbeat or Stepped cant be used in server so yeah)

remoteEvent.OnClientEvent:Connect(function(theTick)
       print(tick() - theTick) -- It will print a really small number.
end)
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