P2P, how do they really work

[Direink144]

Just curious how a P2P works.  I play exclusively BO4 and when my dedi is at 25 ping I melt yet when i get bumped to a P2P at 25 ping and same distance my gameplay stinks. Not a techno guy so a basic answer for dummies would be fine.

[Netduma Fraser]

Basically no servers are used at all and players are connected to each other so you're reliant on your connections to other people which can be unstable rather to a stable server so that explains why it can be worse on P2P. Occasionally depending on the game they may have one player that acts as the host/server and people will connect to that person - this is maybe where you have heard the term 'host advantage' thrown about.