How to reduce your ping.
Hi people, mind if I give you a handy program to reduce your ping?
It's called Leatrix Latency Fix.
What does it do?
Leatrix Latency Fix will reduce your online gaming latency significantly by increasing the frequency of TCP acknowledgements sent to the game server. For the technically minded, this is a script which will modify TCPAckFrequency.
How it works
Online games generally use the TCP protocol which requires that network segments sent to your computer be acknowledged in order to provide a reliable connection.
Windows bundles these acknowledgements together and sends them in pairs. While this is an efficient way of dealing with them generally, the inevitable delays caused by the bundling process increase latency considerably.
This is because when Windows queues up an acknowledgement in order to bundle it with the following one, the game server has to wait for the acknowledgement timer to expire before sending new data.
Leatrix Latency Fix removes the acknowledgement bundling process so that an acknowledgement is sent immediately for every segment that's received. This produces a significant reduction in latency as there is no longer a delay before new data is sent to your computer.
In a normal networking environment, you would prioritise network efficiency over latency and use the Windows defaults, but in online games the opposite is true and you want the lowest latency you can possibly get.
Here is the download link for the lazy people.
My ping went from 60 to 40, so I hope this helps for people with high latency and .. BR <jk>.
If you have any problems with the download, there is a FAQ on that site.
Some quotes:
Everyone a Merry Christmas !
It's called Leatrix Latency Fix.
What does it do?
Leatrix Latency Fix will reduce your online gaming latency significantly by increasing the frequency of TCP acknowledgements sent to the game server. For the technically minded, this is a script which will modify TCPAckFrequency.
How it works
Online games generally use the TCP protocol which requires that network segments sent to your computer be acknowledged in order to provide a reliable connection.
Windows bundles these acknowledgements together and sends them in pairs. While this is an efficient way of dealing with them generally, the inevitable delays caused by the bundling process increase latency considerably.
This is because when Windows queues up an acknowledgement in order to bundle it with the following one, the game server has to wait for the acknowledgement timer to expire before sending new data.
Leatrix Latency Fix removes the acknowledgement bundling process so that an acknowledgement is sent immediately for every segment that's received. This produces a significant reduction in latency as there is no longer a delay before new data is sent to your computer.
In a normal networking environment, you would prioritise network efficiency over latency and use the Windows defaults, but in online games the opposite is true and you want the lowest latency you can possibly get.
Here is the download link for the lazy people.
My ping went from 60 to 40, so I hope this helps for people with high latency and .. BR <jk>.
If you have any problems with the download, there is a FAQ on that site.
Some quotes:
flaicher wrote:Amazing.
I had around 300ms before LLF and it dropped below 100ms after installing it.
Used to be (1y4m ago) below 100ms all the time but now there are three computers instead of one connected to the same router. (a bit offtopic, yes)
Oh and.. Win 7 64bit
Bodyci wrote:Thank you for creating this great script here is the results;
200-300 before
90-100 after
on windows 7.
HUGE WIN!
jmcgrath wrote:Love you
Everyone a Merry Christmas !
Comments
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Funny conversation between your computer and the game server o.o:
Before Leatrix Latency Fix is installed:
Server: "Ok computer, I just sent a data packet over to you, got it?"
Your computer: ...
Server: "Come on, answer me! I don't have all day! Stop wasting time!"
Your computer: ...
Server: "Ok, forget it, I've waited long enough, sending another one over! Got it?"
Your computer: "Yep, got that one, also got the one you sent before, thanks."
Server: "Well, why didn't you acknowledge the first one when I sent it? I was waiting ages!"
Your computer: "Sorry, I'm just trying to make the network more efficient by bundling the acknowledgements together in pairs. This is how I'm setup by default."
After Leatrix Latency Fix is installed:
Server: "Ok computer, I just sent a data packet over, got it?"
Your computer: "Yep, send the next!"
Server: "That was fast! Ok, here's another, got that?"
Your computer: "Yep, send the next!"
Server: "Wow! What an improvement! Now that's more like it!"
Your computer: "Yep, it's certainly keeping me on my toes, thanks!"
Since when does a computer have toes. -
Funny conversation between your computer and the game server o.o:
Before Leatrix Latency Fix is installed:
Server: "Ok computer, I just sent a data packet over to you, got it?"
Your computer: ...
Server: "Come on, answer me! I don't have all day! Stop wasting time!"
Your computer: ...
Server: "Ok, forget it, I've waited long enough, sending another one over! Got it?"
Your computer: "Yep, got that one, also got the one you sent before, thanks."
Server: "Well, why didn't you acknowledge the first one when I sent it? I was waiting ages!"
Your computer: "Sorry, I'm just trying to make the network more efficient by bundling the acknowledgements together in pairs. This is how I'm setup by default."
After Leatrix Latency Fix is installed:
Server: "Ok computer, I just sent a data packet over, got it?"
Your computer: "Yep, send the next!"
Server: "That was fast! Ok, here's another, got that?"
Your computer: "Yep, send the next!"
Server: "Wow! What an improvement! Now that's more like it!"
Your computer: "Yep, it's certainly keeping me on my toes, thanks!"
Since when does a computer have toes.
Ugaa,understood that one,download that magical program,ugaa. -
Here's another idea: buy 21st century internet. If I, on Windows 7, don't have latency problem, you'll not have it either. My Windows is not custom made with dedication from Bill Gates & Steve Ballmer.
That's a stupid answer as I have some of the fastest net around & still pull 60 ping cause im from florida.
OT: I'll test it now & get back to you with some feedback. -
Is it Windows 7 only or something?
I'm on vista and it increased my ping for 60 - 100 xD
"Leatrix Latency Fix is supported on these operating systems only.
Windows XP (SP2 or higher)
Windows Vista (SP1 or higher)
Windows 7"
I doubt it's only for 7. -
Stop spamming for posts, it does get fairly annoying.
Anyway, just realised Steam was downloading Source at the time (Forgot about that...)
Will try it again in a few hours
How is it spamming? I found that funny, so it's spam. I like your logic, i've been on there forum's for about a week an half now and i'm not gonna stop being active on the forum's. -
"Leatrix Latency Fix is supported on these operating systems only.
Windows XP (SP2 or higher)
Windows Vista (SP1 or higher)
Windows 7"
I doubt it's only for 7.
Read my second post, just realised heheh.Crystallyz wrote: »How is it spamming? I found that funny, so it's spam. I like your logic, i've been on there forum's for about a week an half now and i'm not gonna stop being active on the forum's.
You're annoying, you're probably not really wanted here by many.
Merry christmas.
afk -
I have 100 mbps fiber and I have no problems at all on the UK server.aPimpNameKirby wrote: »That's a stupid answer as I have some of the fastest net around & still pull 60 ping cause im from florida.
OT: I'll test it now & get back to you with some feedback.
http://www.dslreports.com/faq/160 -
WishMunzta wrote: »Thx Louis! I'll try when my pc's fixed and I already used RegEdit.exe.
Are you the one in my fl ingame?
No problem, and I think so o.o
IGN = Loouis
But I'll brb, going to my cousins. Please don't let this thread die, because it's very useful
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