Just wanted to point out that from my test ping below 5 should still not be possible or is it...

Here you can see me playing on the same pc as the server and then playing while being the server. In the case when connecting to myself my ping is 10 and latency is 5. When playing while being the server itself my ping is 0 and latency 1. So it would appear that valve had removed or changed the hard limits likely dependent on leerp setting more than anything as the server forces min and max values for rate, cl_updaterate and cmd_updaterate.

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