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I have a gaming zone where I have 20 client PCs and a server. If I run a script(PHP/VB.NET) from my server that pings client PCs every five seconds to see if they are turned on/off, will it cause any problem to the users who are playing games? Or does it have any negative effect to the performance of the computers I have while they are running?
Thanks in Advance 🙂
Ping is fairly low cost, it only sends a few bytes and measures how fast it receives an answer from the target computer. It shouldn’t cause any noticeable loss in performance on the target computers if you’re just pinging once every 5 seconds.