u/Bluberra

Been trying to play Custom Games with a friend of mine for the past few days, but certain customs would make their ping spike more than others.

We noticed that the ping would climb higher and higher the more they moved their mouse around, scaling infinitely.

Turns out, it was a polling rate issue. Fancy gaming mice today can apparently go up to about 8000hz. The lowest their mice could go was 1000hz, which didn't fix the issue entirely, but limited it from ping scaling infinitely to ~100ms or so.

If you're experiencing unexplainable ping issues, try lowering your mouse polling rate.