Comments on: Lowering Latency

By: Druidious

Druidious — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:34:34 +0000

@upyursh Thanks mate, looks like i have a fun weekend ahead of me trying it all out!!

By: upyursh

upyursh — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:04:46 +0000

@Druidious
There should not be any reason why it wouldnt work having 2 PCs connected to wow, but you will have to try it, I dont have 2 wow accounts so hard for me too

If you wanted to be connecting to different servers you would need to create multiple socat instances, one for each server.

@SMP
I use this as well, it works well.

@Druidious
You will never get NO latency, if you understand what these fixes are doing you are not actually reducing the connection time to the server. But what you are doing is telling windows to not wait for the response prior to sending the next. You will always have the latency especially when running in Australia etc.

I have had better results using my unix solution simply because the unix Network Stack is much more efficient than windows but whatever works for you

Upy

By: Druidious

Druidious — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:52:30 +0000

I guess the next question will be if we used both methods would they work in harmony and provide almost nil latency?
Ie, Home Server for lowering ping + Leatrix for increasing the frequency of TCP traffic???
Hmmm Lets nut this out together!! KGO

By: Druidious

Druidious — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:40:10 +0000

@SMP
Whoa, i will definetley give this bad boy a try tonite when i get home!!
That kind of latency reduction would make my life as a healer a great deal easier. The idea behind it seems so simple im amazed no-one has done it earlier???
Now, how to get out of work early today?? ;p

By: SMP

SMP — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 14:44:09 +0000

@SMP Just found a great fix for this. Easy for the non-techno types. Leatrix Latency Fix. We went from 400+ latency to 118 to 130. Easy to install, takes about 30 seconds and a restart and voila, you have the tcp-ack-frequency fix with no hassles. Works with Win 7 and Vista too.

By: SMP

SMP — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 02:41:54 +0000

@Druidious I'd be interested to see an answer to this too. We have a family of 4 WoW addicts and latency can be an issue. We've tried all the other tricks and fixes... no luck.

By: Druidious

Druidious — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:45:49 +0000

Great idea, Would this kind of reduction in latency still occur with
three WoW pc’s on my network and would all pc’s need to be setup up
accordingly considering we all play on the same server??
Am i better off investing in a dedicated server/storage box maybe?

By: Upyursh

Upyursh — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:18:33 +0000

@Jorge Mario
thanks for that Jorge, glad to see you’re getting some positive results

@Kwiat
Yes Nat will work. The communication between the VM and wow servers is affectively as normal, its just that your game client is getting a response from the VM rather that wow servers so the latency drops

By: Kwiat

Kwiat — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:59:48 +0000

I had problem with loging in too, but password is in the site you have downloaded debian
Login:root
password:user

I have a question, can it be done using nat network connection?

By: Jorge Mario

Jorge Mario — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:20:26 +0000

Just finished my configuration and it works, reducing my latency by almost -50 (still very high but this really helps). Thanks.

The script doesn’t work for me the very first time. Throw an error like “invalid interpreter”, so I changed the first line from #!/sbin/sh to #!/bin/sh (minus the first s) and that fixed my issue.

Brian: to log in as root just execute the command “su” and the default password is “user”.