Faster Ping

Barfish88

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Found this on www.curse.com

Hope it works :)


http://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/10599/


Reduces your latency / gives better ping times in World of Warcraft (and other Multiplayer Games) by optimizing network registry settings (Windows default setting are intentionally causing delays on small packets and ACKs).

The tool ist based on following articles:

english: http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?topic=3031.0 http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=3271071466&sid=1&pageNo=1 http://developers.slashdot.org/comm...hold=1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&cid=14515105 http://mattgadient.com/2007/12/13/kb935458-v2-vista-hotfix-for-tcpackfrequency/ http://elitistjerks.com/f15/t17761-server_locations_latency_australia/p8/

german: http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=1958327347&sid=3


Faster Ping optimizes network registry settings in order to turn off ACK delays and small packet delays. Windows intentionally delays small packets and waits until more data can be sent, which is a good idea for non-realtime applications. But in Multiplayer and MMO games the focus is on sending all packets (like move_left, cast_spell, ...) immediately to the server, even if they are only 1 byte in size. Faster Ping turns off these network delays which improves latency and ping times significantly.

You must have Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 installed (XP with Service Pack and Vista already have it) to run this application. You can get it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...FamilyID=0856eacb-4362-4b0d-8edd-aab15c5e04f5



RELEASE 0.1 is BETA for now ***
please report all bugs on the curse gaming project page ... including a way to reproduce them (what have you done to get the error) and/or a screenshot
 
Doesnt work anymore (since patch 2.3.2 or so if i remember correctly) since the patch included those same changes (ACK delay 'fix') natively into the WoW client codebase.
 
kHayne, 2.3.2 did implement that algorithm to reduce the lag... But it still doesn't do a good job like this 'reg hack'

This download is pretty much the automatic way of editing your registry
/yawn

Feel sorta bad for the people that get exception errors from this app :(
 
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Doesnt work anymore (since patch 2.3.2 or so if i remember correctly) since the patch included those same changes (ACK delay 'fix') natively into the WoW client codebase.

I recently migrated to the UK and got a good internet connection. Wow however still had 100-200ms so I just used this patch and now i have 30-40ms. I would say it still works :cool:
 
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