CS Nation's Site Director has revealed this sad fact regarding the PC version of Modern Warfare 2 (also on Xbox 360, PS3): Unless you are the host, your Ping sucks, basically.

Apparently, looks are truly deceiving. The next time you see three bars out of your ping, don't go sighing in relief just yet. That actually means your ping is the pits.

Said Zips, the Site Director:

The sad truth? You might wanna pound a few beers before you read this:

• The host is immediately obvious, he's the guy with 0-20 ping (full green).

• I usually connect with about 101-200+ms.

• Most people are connected at 200+ms (3 or less bars on normal cfg settings).

• On regular cfg settings, 4 bars means up to 0-100 ping, 3 bars 101-200, 2 bars 201-300, 1 bar is 301+.

If you go into a server and everyone's ping appears to be good, but there's still a lot of apparent lag and rubber-banding going on, this may be the reason why.

Here's what the Host Advantage looks like:

 

If you want an honest reflection of your ping, you might want to try this:

• Navigate to the folder: 'program filessteamsteamappscommoncall of duty modern warfare 2players' and open the file config_mp.cfg
• Change scoresping_interval from 100 to 20, and maxbars from 4 to 10 (10 is the max).
• This means that each of the 10 bars represents 20ms, with full green being 20ms or lower, and 1 red being 200ms or higher.

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