How does one use Gamemax?

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Jaaks

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COuld someone please explain how the heck to use Gamemax.org for speeding up WOW?
I went to the site and lost it when they started talking about Putty? and saying I have to download 10 different files with all sorts of settings and stuff?
Just wondering?
 
Check out their setup page: http://www.gamemax.org/setup

Basically its 3 files:

1) Putty - connects you to the gamemax server
2) Registry file - this sets up your putty application for you so you don't have to (only need to do this once)
3) Sockscap or Proxy cap - You'll run WoW through this application. This connects your wow to blizzard servers, through gamemax servers (see point 1)

So download putty, double click registry file to import the settings. Run putty and double click "pamela.gamemax.org" address. This opens a window that looks like CMD. Enter your username/password.

Now run Sockscap/proxycap (set it up like on the gamemax's setup page) and double click the wow icon in sockscap/proxycap.

It's not that hard, but wish it was as easy as double clicking an icon ;)
 
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Necuno said:
well www.artofping.com, pingfu charges 9 euros per month (±R66p/m). not sure how much they will charge after their beta period R100 ? R150 ? R50 ?
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Long time ago there was a discussion about using Socks for decreasing WoW pings. The overall impression was that it does put your account at risk. And you can be banned for it.

How true this is I don't know, I'm just not able to risk my 3 chars for a lower ping tbh
 
They dont bann you for using the service. Its when someone else using the same service hacks they bann everyone using the same line (address). And I hear that alot of account scammers/hackers make use of this service.
 
Barfish88 said:
They dont bann you for using the service. Its when someone else using the same service hacks they bann everyone using the same line (address). And I hear that alot of account scammers/hackers make use of this service.
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Nea, fk that. I'll take my bad day pings then the way they are thanx :o

I'm not going to do anything that will risk my account being banned :(
 
Your account is not at risk using gamemax, as it uses ssh so all traffic from you and to the server is encrypted via the tunnel; as they state on the site its currently in beta. So its free for now until they decide to start charging for the service. I have had amazing pings using the service. I have had issues with it on mac but my other friend uses it and swears by it. He has a shaped 384k and he gets pings of 330-390.
 
And to be on the safe side, let a gm know cause they see you account being used from SA and suddenly its from a UK address. They have frozen accounts for this. They do it because they think someone has hack your account details.
 
AFAIK, its a 72 hour suspension. Nothing more. Anyways there are many services that do this from NZ/Aus and that haven't had many incidents.

www.lowerping.com has been operating for some time now.
 
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Necuno said:
well www.artofping.com, pingfu charges 9 euros per month (±R66p/m). not sure how much they will charge after their beta period R100 ? R150 ? R50 ?
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Mailed their support; Apparently it will be ~R60. That's a lot less than I was expecting, TBH. R2 a day, not bad. Guess we'll have to wait for them to go live though.
 
still this shows that http and https traffics still holds king over all other protocols even on unshaped, thats if i understand this correctly now that your wow traffic is forced via https (443) instead of its normal method.

in a true unshaped, shouldn't both just render the exact same result in terms of latency if every thing is actually unshaped and not prioritized, but why then on unshaped does this preform better then when you force wow the 443 route...
 
Necuno said:
still this shows that http and https traffics still holds king over all other protocols even on unshaped, thats if i understand this correctly now that your wow traffic is forced via https (443) instead of its normal method.

in a true unshaped, shouldn't both just render the exact same result in terms of latency if every thing is actually unshaped and not prioritized, but why then on unshaped does this preform better then when you force wow the 443 route...
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If I understand it correctly there is a lot of overhead on normal internet communication to make sure that packets are sent and received correctly.

One of the things Gamemax does is drop some of the overhead.

Now if you were to do that on your machine then all your downloads/streaming etc. would become unreliable (parts of your download never reaches you but your machine does not care).

It improves your latency because every command you give is not sent & confirmed, it is only sent, but it makes your internet unreliable.

With something like a MMORPG it is not the end of the world if a packet is missed here or there.

I saw a while back there is a WoW latency hack that you can do to your PC to achieve the same result (if you already use an unshaped account) but like I said, it corrupts your downloads.

Using a 3rd party that only drops the overhead on WoW traffic makes a lot of sense.

P.S. I use Gamemax on Vodacom 3G and when the 3G connection is not sh|t (as it usually is) i get 300 - 450ms pings. Without it I get 400-600ms.
 
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Pilgrim said:
If I understand it correctly there is a lot of overhead on normal internet communication to make sure that packets are sent and received correctly.

One of the things Gamemax does is drop some of the overhead.

Now if you were to do that on your machine then all your downloads/streaming etc. would become unreliable (parts of your download never reaches you but your machine does not care).

It improves your latency because every command you give is not sent & confirmed, it is only sent, but it makes your internet unreliable.

With something like a MMORPG it is not the end of the world if a packet is missed here or there.

I saw a while back there is a WoW latency hack that you can do to your PC to achieve the same result (if you already use an unshaped account) but like I said, it corrupts your downloads.

Using a 3rd party that only drops the overhead on WoW traffic makes a lot of sense.

P.S. I use Gamemax on Vodacom 3G and when the 3G connection is not sh|t (as it usually is) i get 300 - 450ms pings. Without it I get 400-600ms.
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so what is stopping me from setting up such a visualized server myself to do the dirty ?
 
setting up the servers are simple;)

the problem is you would need a box over seas, closer to your realm the better. The server would require minimum hops to the destination.
 
Necuno said:
still this shows that http and https traffics still holds king over all other protocols even on unshaped, thats if i understand this correctly now that your wow traffic is forced via https (443) instead of its normal method.

in a true unshaped, shouldn't both just render the exact same result in terms of latency if every thing is actually unshaped and not prioritized, but why then on unshaped does this preform better then when you force wow the 443 route...
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Game max tunnels traffic through ssh not https/http. SSH/FTP/HTTP/HTTPS are not priotitized because they are considered business protocols(ports 21,22,25,80,8080,443)
 
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