the latency trick

[Fleecy]

My ticket was answered by a GM but he has directed me to email billing. I'm currently awaiting a reply from billing on the issues of tunneling. I do believe Jamien is correct in 'flagging' of IP addresses. My email to billing raises this question as a potential bannable offense. I'll post more as soon as I've recieved a reply.

As for multiboxing through the tunnel... I installed & setup the tunnel software on all my (multiboxing) computers last night and had a good old play with it. The only issue (and its a very small one at that) is you can't use Octopus / Keyclone to 'maximize' the WoW window, you have to start WoW from within a tunneling program, in my case its an applicationed called FreeCap. If its not started via this software then it does not use the tunnel, and thus defeats the purpose. I had all my girls running around questing in and it worked flawlessly!! Its amazing how much more responsive the game is, it 'felt' so much smoother and more controllable.

I did a brief search of google and found many tunneling services, most of those I looked at were located in Australia. The only Australian service I tried gave me a higher ping than I normally have, I was sitting around 700+. In fairness it was a trial account I used and the pipe queue was indicated as being full. The (FREE) service I've been using wowtunnels.com, is infact located in Australia. And to my amazement my ISP (Slingshot.co.nz) will soon be offering the same service in New Zealand. A statment from a staff member ... "we are not aware of anyone being banned by using our beta WoW tunnel service. Blizzard should not have an issue with ISPs providing a service to improve WoW, but it is Blizzard and their ToS can be changed when they see fit."

I will continue to use the free tunneling service I've been trialing until a) I hear from Blizzard and they say NO or b) My ISP officially release their own.

Oh, I also implimented the registry changes mentioned above and it did indeed make a difference to my in-game ping. I'm using Vista 64bit btw. Without using the tunneling service (and after the registry change) my in-game ping is now only 380-450 ms.

[Caspian]

Why don't you try hitting the CS forums about tunneling. They are usually very responsive.

[Fleecy]

Why don't you try hitting the CS forums about tunneling. They are usually very responsive.

There are many many posts about tunneling, including a 32 page thread. Not a single one has a blue response. They all start out civil and constructed and then they turn into the usual in-fighting we have all come to expect from the WoW forums. There are many people for tunneling and there are just as many people against it. And those against it are probably the same people who against multiboxing - a lot of uninformed, ignorant fools.

[Fleecy]

'Ok, here is a cut'n'paste reply from Blizzard, I've highlighted the important parts for those who don't want to read 8 lines

Greetings,

Thank you for contacting Account Administration. Connecting to the World of Warcraft realms via intermediate servers will not result in action taken against your account so long as the connection adheres to our Terms of Use (http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/legal/termsofuse.html), specifically Section 4] Limitations on Your Use of the Service.

We recommend that you investigate services that reduce latency prior to using them to ensure that they do not engage in exploitive activities such as packet sniffing. Please keep in mind that as the registered user, you are ultimately responsible for ensuring legitimate gameplay.

We appreciate your time and understanding in this matter. Please feel free to contact us if you require any further assistance. We hope you continue to enjoy your experience in World of Warcraft!

Regards,

Saerzin
Account Administration
Blizzard Entertainment

[Anemo]

I was banned for using lowerping.com which is a tunnel service.

It was a 72 hour ban and it was quite a hassle to get any warnings etc removed. It's quite possible that I could continue to use it now and never get banned again but with Blizzard's customer service its pretty risky.

My ban expired long before I got any response from wowaccountadmin and they will not discuss any ban issues over the phone.

The -100ms ping was great but still not sure it's worth the risk especially with multiple accounts involved.

[Maklar]

I run Win Xp and made the first registry change but not the 2nd as it didn't exist in my registry. It dropped my ping from ~260 to around 120 so I was pleasently surprised.

[bsdll]

As was posted above, while great for WoW because it changes the packet size to force your computer to send smaller packets more often, it will totally screw with your downloads from the web. The web hates lots of smaller packets as there is more overhead. So make sure you don't do it on heavy download computers (including wow patches that are coming soon).

[oxxo]

As was posted above, while great for WoW because it changes the packet size to force your computer to send smaller packets more often, it will totally screw with your downloads from the web. The web hates lots of smaller packets as there is more overhead. So make sure you don't do it on heavy download computers (including wow patches that are coming soon).

Yea. Anyone doing this stuff should probably just change everything back after they are done playing WoW.

Messing around with network stuff without knowing anything about it is just asking for trouble.

[tfewster]

I don't know if this is the same latency registry fix but i found this one at www.pinghack.com on their blog.

Tim

[Akeldema]

www.pinghack.com[/url] on their blog.

Tim

Did you realy find the need to necro a 6 month + old topic to post that...