I tested some stuffs out to see if I could get some lowerping like effects by changing how windows sends tcpip packets. Basicallly what I found out was that windows is gay and unless you kick it in the nuts it throttles your internetz by holding onto packets until certain rules are met. I did a little searching and found some registry tweaks that tell windows to stop being a packet holding whore and to share the packets as soon as fucking possible. Below I will post some test results I got from various tests yesterday and a guide on how to make windows not be a packet keeping whore.
Here are some ping values I got while testing this windows tweak and without it and with gamepath and without gamepath
hope this helps
I tried these on the Gamepath1 server as Snips at the time was getting 210 - 240 ping.
Test 1
- No Tweak - No Gamepath 750 - 770 ping
- With Tweak - No Gamepath 460 - 480 ping
- No Tweak - With Gamepath 340 - 360 ping
- With Tweak - With Gamepath 260 - 280 ping
This test I tried on the gamepath100 server which gave me simmilar pings to Snips the night before!!
Test 2
- No Tweak - No Gamepath 720 - 760 ping
- With Tweak - No Gamepath 440 - 460 ping
- No Tweak - With Gamepath 300 - 380 ping
- With Tweak - With Gamepath 430 - 450 ping
Conclusion:
The tweak with gamepath results are inconclusive, feel free to test more if you like.
The Tweak without using gamepath showed a big improvement with a whopping 300ms reduction in both tests.
So for a free solution try out the registry tweak below.