[GUIDE] How to check what server you're connecting to and find your ping to it
PUBG mobile PING TEST ?
Numbers in a game mode/server window are pretty correct for me.
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Have you ever connected to a game and had "Network Lag Detected" messages all over the place and wonder "Is my internet being terrible or am I connected to a server on the moon?". Since PUBG doesn't display your ping anywhere in game (yet), it is difficult to know the source of the lag. So this is a simple guide on how to identify the location of the game server you're connecting to and ping it.
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Start a game
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Once you are loaded into the lobby island, alt-tab out and launch Resource Monitor (A Windows tool installed by default on Vista+)
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Go to the Network tab and tick the box next to tslgame.exe
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In the Network Activity section, look for connections to an address that starts with "ec2" and ends with "amazonaws.com", the one with the highest Send activity is likely the game server. I'm not entirely sure what all the other connections are for.
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That server address contains the region code, which tells you where Amazon is hosting it. You can get a full list of region codes and locations here: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html#ec2_region
Here's an example: screenshot
In that screenshot I'm connected to the game server at "ec2-13-210-41-168.ap-southeast-2.compute.amazonaws.com". ap-southeast-2 is the region code for Sydney, which is correct because I queued into the OCE region. And 13.210.41.168 is the IP of the server.
Then to check your ping, you're going to need to find an IP that will respond to pings, since the game server itself did not in my testing.
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Go to http://ec2-reachability.amazonaws.com/
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Locate the IP prefix for the game server address we found
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Open a command prompt and run "ping xx.xx.xx.xx" to that IP
So using that same example, the game server address prefix is 13.210.x.x, so according to that site, the IP to ping is 13.210.0.252.
You can add the "-t" flag to the ping command to have it run indefinitely if you want to keep it up on your second monitor while playing. screenshot. No surprise, my ping to Sydney sucks.
I hope this guide is helpful to identify where the servers are actually located and if that "network lag" message is actually caused by high ping or if it is something else.
Cheers.