What is ping measuring?

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#1

not sure if this is the right category

i have a few concepts of ping and im not sure which one it is. they all look very promising to me

the round trip time between client and server

the round trip time between server and client

the time it takes for the server to receive a message from the client

the time it takes for the client to receive a message from the server
or something else that im not aware of

im trying to make a script that predicts the outcome of some data that happened on the client and takes in account the time it takes for the server to do the same that happened on the client

in short, some data happened on the client.
server do the same that happened on the client.
localscript trying to predict what would happen on the server, on the client by taking in account the time it takes to travel between client to server for the server to start doing the same

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#2

Pretty sure how long it is for the client to recieve info from the server.

#3

It is the round trip time, either way it should be the same unless for some reason either the client or server is tremendously overworked. There is no way to measure ping without a round trip signal because the times on both machines will be off, and when you’re dealing with milliseconds of ping you will notice it even if the clocks are synchronized. You can’t even synchronize times without a round trip ping, so I guess that’s moot.