the latency trick

[lukey15]

i saw some one mention they disable something or other to drop there latency on wow , i was wondering if someone can explain how u do it , i have abit of an issue :P many thx

[sway]

I heard something in the AV grp, but its WITHOUT Guarantee etc...
i don't know WHAT this changing, but i believe something with the packages size...

Right click on
My Network Places -> properties
Local Area Connection -> properties

then you see "connect using:" then you see your network card and right of this field "Configure..." click on it
then to "Advanced"

Then i think it was the "Flow Control", but i'm not sure whats happening and when your are not known what you're doing, better do not changing somethings.

here is the wikipedia link to the "flow control"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_control

[Majestic_Clown]

wait until next major patch and the data transmission type is chaning which will increase latency.

[Los]

wait until next major patch and the data transmission type is chaning which will decrease latency.

fixed

I R NEWB I R NEWB.

Fixed by Wilbur <- gay!

[sikerdebaard]

Meh, decrease of latency, but more bandwidth usage. More overhead, especialy for ADSL users.

[Majestic_Clown]

HAHA I R PWNT!

Yes Decrease latency.


Quoted from the patch notes for the next major patch

Reduced network latency by disabling the Nagle algorithm.

this will DECREASE (:P) latency by between 50-250 depending on location

[Hippieman]

HAHA I R PWNT!

Yes Decrease latency.


Quoted from the patch notes for the next major patch

Reduced network latency by disabling the Nagle algorithm.

this will DECREASE (:P) latency by between 50-250 depending on location

That means I'll have -10 latency :shock:

[Ellay]

It's actually 2 registry changes that need to be done. I noticed a very nice drop in my ping. I've quoted a guide I used to do the changes, If your not comfortable touching your Registry please please please do not do it, this is pretty much the brain of your system and 1 wrong key entry may = PC does not work. If you do in fact make the changes, be very careful triple check!!!

International lag fix
WoW lags, it's not something new if you're playing on servers a bit far away from your country, but don't worry people are fixing it ! Out of all the methods offered to fix the lag on your machine, one of them posted on Elitistjerks forums seems to work very well.

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1 - It might have side effects, like slowing down your download speed or affecting your performance on other softwares. (In my case, it didn't change anything)
2 - If you're not sure about what you're doing, just don't do it. I don't want to be responsible because you crashed your computer in some way because you wasted your registry.
2.1 - Seriously, if you don't know what you're doing, don't do it. It will be fixed in one or two weeks anyway. (and the official fix won't have any impact on other softwares)
3 - If you don't have the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSMQ\ directory, you can download and apply this file to your registry.
4 - Windows Vista users might want to check this post too.

Source - Elitistjerks.com

"1 - TcpAckFrequency - NOTE if you are running Windows Vista this setting may not have any effect - a hotfix is needed which i'm tracking down. This works fine under Windows XP

Type "regedit" in windows "run.." dialog to bring up registry menu

Then find:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces\

There will be multiple NIC interfaces listed in there, find the one you use to connect to the internet, there will be several interfaces listed (they have long names like {7DBA6DCA-FFE8-4002-A28F-4D2B57AE8383}. Click each one, the right one will have lots of settings in it and you will see your machines IP address listed there somewhere. Right-click in the right hand pane and add a new DWORD value, name it TcpAckFrequency, then right click the entry and click Modify and assign a value of 1.

You can change it back to 2 (default) at a later stage if it affects your other TCP application performance. it tells windows how many TCP packets to wait before sending ACK. if the value is 1, windows will send ACK every time it receives a TCP package.

2 - TCPNoDelay
This one is pretty simple (Discussed here)

Type "regedit" in windows "run.." dialog to bring up registry menu

Then find:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSMQ\Paramet ers

Right-click in the right hand pane and add a new DWORD value, name it TCPNoDelay, then right click the entry and click Modify and assign a value of 1.

Click Ok and close the registry editor, then reboot your PC."

Basically, this fix is deactivating the Nagle algorithm to improve your ping. If you don't want to do it you can just wait for the 2.3.2 patch as it's supposed to deactivate it too, but I don't think you can test it on PTRs right now because the updated patch notes from the latest PTR Build (7705) are actually for the upcoming build (7710).
Quote from: Hortus (Source)
The patch notes that were included with this build (7705) are actually for the next build (7710).
Once you're done with the technical stuff (it probably won't take more than 1 minute if you're not too bad), you can finally get your reward.


Even if in this case, the fix was used to decrease a very high ping, it seems to work very well on low (~100ms) ping for some people (lowered to ~20 or ~30ms).

[Majestic_Clown]

btw doing this will get your account banned as it intercepts the world of warcraft data between the user and server.

This is FACT that it will get you banned, even blue postings on this, will have to dig to get them.

[Sun]

btw doing this will get your account banned as it intercepts the world of warcraft data between the user and server.

This is FACT that it will get you banned, even blue postings on this, will have to dig to get them.

hmmmm...i dont agree that this will get you banned...that is if you are talking about the registry fix.

I did this on UO(ultima online) UO finally had to make changes within their system to control the speed hacks.

Again, I would say that if its on ur registry ur PC then HOW can WOW ban you? lol doesnt make sense. Your not changeing anything within the game. WOW cannot tell you how your PC should be run and in FACT is illegal if not questionable that they even monitor your PC with their WARDEN crap.