Quote Originally Posted by 'Hairball',index.php?page=Thread&postID=198196#pos t198196
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.