Comments on: [Guide] How to Lower Your Latency: a Compendium http://www.gamebynight.com/?p=54 ... it's the zombie apocalypse, do you know where YOUR children are? Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:34:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Chris http://www.gamebynight.com/?p=54&cpage=1#comment-179 Chris Mon, 14 Sep 2009 01:36:52 +0000 http://www.gamebynight.com/?p=54#comment-179 Hi, thanks for this information Ctu! <strong>READERS:</strong> I wasn't aware of that, so readers should keep this in mind. That being said, that particular point was taken from Blizzard's own help file on dropping your pings. For World of Warcraft, at least, it's a company supported solution. If you notice the opposite effect in other games, it may be a good idea to try changing this setting back to factory default and making sure it's not having that opposite effect. Hi, thanks for this information Ctu!

READERS:
I wasn’t aware of that, so readers should keep this in mind. That being said, that particular point was taken from Blizzard’s own help file on dropping your pings. For World of Warcraft, at least, it’s a company supported solution. If you notice the opposite effect in other games, it may be a good idea to try changing this setting back to factory default and making sure it’s not having that opposite effect.

]]> By: Ctu http://www.gamebynight.com/?p=54&cpage=1#comment-178 Ctu Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:25:23 +0000 http://www.gamebynight.com/?p=54#comment-178 "Force your NIC card to the maximum duplex setting. This can be located located in the same area as above. On most cards, this will by full duplex and 100mbs. Your setting will depend on your maximum internet connection bandwidth. Most ISPs will (such as Time Warner, Comcast, AT&T, etc) provide this level of service in their standard packages. Find out what your connection is and make this change accordingly." This is a VERY poor idea. Being a network engineer, I can tell you that this will likely accomplish the exact opposite result. When you force a full duplex setting on your router or computer, the other side must be forced to full duplex as well for it to work. If one side is configured to autonegotiate, while the other is forcing full-duplex, the autonegotiate side will resort to running at half duplex. 99.9% of consumer ISPs will have their end configured to autonegotiate, thus, you should do the same, if you want full-duplex communication. Kind regards. “Force your NIC card to the maximum duplex setting. This can be located located in the same area as above. On most cards, this will by full duplex and 100mbs. Your setting will depend on your maximum internet connection bandwidth. Most ISPs will (such as Time Warner, Comcast, AT&T, etc) provide this level of service in their standard packages. Find out what your connection is and make this change accordingly.”

This is a VERY poor idea. Being a network engineer, I can tell you that this will likely accomplish the exact opposite result. When you force a full duplex setting on your router or computer, the other side must be forced to full duplex as well for it to work. If one side is configured to autonegotiate, while the other is forcing full-duplex, the autonegotiate side will resort to running at half duplex. 99.9% of consumer ISPs will have their end configured to autonegotiate, thus, you should do the same, if you want full-duplex communication.

Kind regards.

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