The amount of milliseconds - ping is measured in ms - that we’re twiddling our thumbs waiting for the dog to return with our thrown stick is called latency or, in gamer terms, lag for short. The farther we throw the stick and the rougher the terrain the dog has to take to get to it, the longer it will take them to bring it back. To put ping in a non-gamer context, think of playing fetch with a dog. Speed can also be affected by how much data a network is juggling and how many users are on that network at the same time. And for online gamers, internet connection speed is everything. Internet connection speed, above all else, affects ping.
