What does the Ping MS mean?

The ping is the reaction time of your connection–how fast you get a response after you've sent out a request. A fast ping means a more responsive connection, especially in applications where timing is everything (like video games). Ping is measured in milliseconds (ms). read more

What this does is allows the program that sent the ping to calculate the "Round Trip Time" (or RTT) that it takes a packet to reach a particular server. That is, it calculates how long it takes for the packet to reach the server and to be sent back. read more

A fast ping means a more responsive connection, especially in applications where timing is everything (like video games). Ping is measured in milliseconds (ms). The download speed is how fast you can pull data from the server to you. read more