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[Ughmahedhurtz]

I'm guessing the theory here is to activate a new session with your ISP. Lemme 'splain.

Comcast and AT&T (and others) use a throttled teaser rate when they advertise speeds. ZOMG 1.5 megabit connection! What it really is a 1.5 megabit connection for the first 15 seconds (more then enough time to load most web pages), then the ISP automatically throttles your connection back to something like 768k. They've been doing this for years...

I'm guessing the theory here is that the constant pinging starts a new "session" with your ISP, therefore re-enableing the higher speeds?

Only problem is, the pinging never stops...so the session never ends (same goes for WoW being loaded and running....)

Two things. First, I understand what you mean about throttled sessions but that is bandwidth related, not latency related. Second, while you're correct that the pinging never stops, unlike a browser session or a game connection, ping does not maintain a stateful pipe to the target host, if that makes sense. It restarts the "session" every time it sends a ping. Thus my original comment about certain wifi/ISPs dropping your link for inactivity but still not having anything to do with latency.

Eh, if it helps, great. I'd be highly surprised to hear anyone report that it actually did work.

[Sam DeathWalker]

LoL I thought this was complete garbage but someone makes a product to continuously ping ....

http://download.cnet.com/OSS-Interne...-10322216.html

But people who have used the above say it does not work, and full of malware and addware (which is odd for c/net). Purhaps this idea works only on dial-up.



I use this one:

http://download.cnet.com/TZ-Connecti...html?tag=mncol

[Deekhay]

Well, I can't understand it all ^^ but I guess I can follow the easy well explained steps.

Just in case it goes really bad for me and it decreases performance instead of increasing, how to revert to "old" state?

Thanks a lot and cheers.

[not5150]

The first program's constant ping function has nothing to do with making your internet go faster. It's for maintaining a constant connection so your ISP doesn't disconnect you (something which was common in the dial-up days, but no so much today).

LoL I thought this was complete garbage but someone makes a product to continuously ping ....

http://download.cnet.com/OSS-Interne...-10322216.html

But people who have used the above say it does not work, and full of malware and addware (which is odd for c/net). Purhaps this idea works only on dial-up.



I use this one:

http://download.cnet.com/TZ-Connecti...html?tag=mncol

[not5150]

If you think the constant ping works for you... then enjoy your placebo effect Just remember, you can't sort by penis - I'm guessing quite a few folks will get that reference.

I'm sure many of the other members on this board (people who have worked in IT, have degrees and certs) will have a good chuckle over it.

[not5150]

An add-on Intel nic (like this - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16833106121) will do a better job than the Killer NIC for 1/10th the price.

Intel NIC
On board memory
External network processor
TCP stack manipulation

Killer NIC
On board memory
External network processor
TCP stack manipulation

Harlan Beverly, is the CEO of Bigfoot Networks, and was a former Intel employee that created the Intel server line of NIC cards.

I'm also planning on picking up one of the new Killer Xeno Pro NIC Cards http://www.evga.com/articles/00467/ ... They're said to not only decrease your PING, but also give it a much more steady connection to the server. These come out next week.

[Nisch]

Ping uses the ICMP protocol, and has nothing to do with TCP, which the game uses.

This is a total farse.

I'm an IT Director in charge of a worldwide company in multiple locations involving T1's, VPN's, Websites, Web Services, etc and I can assure you that this does not do a thing for latency or connection reliablility.

You're better off messing with your TCP settings (MTU, TTL, etc) to get a better ping, although even that is not going to yield much result as it once did with Win 9x machines, which weren't designed with high speed in mind. XP and Vista handle high speed connections much more efficiently.

[Nisch]

I'm guessing the theory here is to activate a new session with your ISP. Lemme 'splain.

Comcast and AT&T (and others) use a throttled teaser rate when they advertise speeds. ZOMG 1.5 megabit connection! What it really is a 1.5 megabit connection for the first 15 seconds (more then enough time to load most web pages), then the ISP automatically throttles your connection back to something like 768k. They've been doing this for years...

I'm guessing the theory here is that the constant pinging starts a new "session" with your ISP, therefore re-enableing the higher speeds?

Only problem is, the pinging never stops...so the session never ends (same goes for WoW being loaded and running....)

so........ lolwut?

Once you get past dialup speeds, latency and internet connectin speed are two completely different issues.

You can have an OC48 connection and still have shitty ping times.

[Ken]

[edit: Blah never mind]

[Talamarr]

Just remember, you can't sort by penis

But if you reboot three times it should work.