Ping masking and one of the easiest ways to spot it.

[NLA]

Kicking people from the server who legitimately have low ping is at best ignorant and at worse borderline retarded. Here is the sequence of steps admins should take when dealing with this "issue":

1. Press Tab during gameplay and observe player pings.
2. If a player with a <10ms ping is spotted, observe the player for lag, and listen for other player complaints about this individual lagging.
3. If lag is present, ask the player to fix their rates; kick them if they do not comply, ban them for one hour if they do not comply and continue to rejoin the server after being kicked. If lag is not present, leave the player alone.

It seems like some of our admins don't mind skipping step 2, blindly following the rules instead of interpreting them and applying common sense.

[::Paper::]

I had the same problem before I was an admin I was accused of ping masking all the time I live in richmond,va and D.C is usually 5-20ms for me all the time watching for lag is all you can do and if you are kicked or ban I would just tell them where u leave and to be aware of the distance and they should look more closely before doing it again but kicking because of low ping is not a way to detect if you are ping masking -_-