Ping

[Pedro]

Yes, supposedly it only happens on Windows7. For the ones who are getting issues with their pings here's a quote from Jhon, which as Agent already mentioned it indeed did help us:

There I added a registry key file called Ping tweak, just double click it and click accept when the prompt comes up. Of course, SA-MP and San Andreas itself should be closed when doing this. After successfully adding the key to the registry, restart your PCs, and then when opening SA-MP, after the San Andreas window is open, hit Ctrl. + Shift + Esc: this will minimize your game and bring up the Task manager. Once there, move to the Processes tab, search gta_sa.exe, right click it, and click set affinity. By default, SA-MP only uses 1 processor (core) for the San Andreas process, so select all your cores to run the process, and hit accept. Go back ingame, and you should see a framerate improvement (in my case it's a big improvement), and your ping should be more steady now. As a sidenote, the above mentioned step doesn't save, so sadly you have to do that every time you run SA-MP.

The trick worked for me, so hopefully it does for you as well.

Jhon

This is the file he's talking about