Improving Lag & Latency

[supertux1]

I have two computers that I multibox 5 toons on and I created a point-to-point firewire network between the two of them.

All of the software tools I use for syncronization run on this secondary, dedicated high speed low-latency network.

I use Kavoom KM, KeyClone and windows file sharing, they're each setup to use the firewire networking, so only 'game' packets are transmitted over ethernet and syncronization chatter isn't.

Normal Ethernet Network (linksys router with dd-wrt) = 192.168.1.201 and 192.168.1.202

Firewire Network = 10.0.0.1 and 10.0.0.2

Then I got a program off of curse gaming called 'FasterPing' that tweaks your registry settings to improve game performance.

(Improves how 'small' packets are sent.)

It works like a charm. All 5 of my clients are reporting under 50ms lag.

There is a trick you have to do to get keyclone to work on the secondary IP address, you have to change the order of network interfaces in 'Advanced' settings of network settings.

You also have to edit C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\Etc\hosts and lmhosts.sam to put static ip mappings to the host names.

[hellsown]

wow ty...researching now....gr8 411

[keyclone]

:!: WARNING:

if the above mentioned addon sounds AT ALL confusing.... DO NOT attempt to noodle with your registry, that's just asking for trouble

and thanks supertux for the quality post :thumbup:



*note: i haven't tried this as i normally get 60-75ms latency

[Zub]

I'm in australia and usually get about 350-400ms latency, due to the distance to the server i guess mainly.
Will this help?
I remember a few months back there had been a registry change for the ACK, later added in a wow patch, that had helped a little.
Is this the same kind of registry change?

Will check into it.
Cheers,
-Zub

[keyclone]

350ms from australia to the US? isn't that like 6,000 miles? i would guess 350ms would be good for that kind of distance.
(i think it's a roundtrip latency and not just one way)

have you ever heard of anyone getting lower latency to the same servers?

[supertux1]

It's fairly easy to setup, the fasterping program just edits the registry for you.

Considering that the GCD is 1000ms, 350ms kind of sucks and you'll see it in BG when you're fighting against someone who has an awesome ping and lots of 'haste' gear.

Do you use /stopcasting in any of your macros?