Is this true???

[mikemean]

There is nothing you can do with tweaking to improve your ping or change your ping?


I ask because yesterday I was looking in the tcp optimiser doing a few pings and it was telling me that I should set my mtu to 1500. I was thinking to myself that it was set. But I guess it wasn't, so I set it to 1500. In most of my favorite servers in Quake 3 I would almost always ping around 100 or a little less like 70 no matter what time of day. After I changed the mtu to 1500 most of them were pinging 100 or more up to 250.

So I deleted the mtu and still they were pining higher than before. So I am thinking I screwed something up. Tonight I checked the ping to the servers I like for Quake and the ping was a little lower, but I still feel like I messed it up. I can ping sites in the command prompt and get like 50-100. Please tell me I'm not losing my mind.

[mnosteele52]

Theoretically by lowering your MTU to 576 or possibly to 548 it will lower your ping, I personally have tested this on my connection as well as a few others with no change at all. Just my two cents.:p :D

[Lobo]

The people at DSL Reports say:

Tweaking will not fix
Packet loss
Multiplayer games over UDP
Your ping time
Regular PC freezes
Inherited hair loss
:)

[mnosteele52]

Only problem with what they say............. is that they are MORONS!!!!;) :D

[Lobo]

Now, now, calm down dude, they're right about a few things:)

[mnosteele52]

You know me Lobo........ I posted there for a bit until they flamed me on EVERY post for suggesting higher RWIN's than they suggested. I NEVER said they were wrong...... just told people to try EVERYTHING and see what works for them, all they did was flame me. Then I did THEIR tests with my settings and got 99% on the analyzer and 2700 kb/s download (my cap 3000). Then I did what THEY suggested and got 84% and 2300..... go figure, then they started back stroking saying.... well.... sometimes large RWIN's do work..... but......, those guys are full of it. The BEST advice is like I said.... try EVERYTHING you won't know if it works unless you try it.;) :D :D :)

[MadDoctor]

Welcome to Speed Guide. We have an open mind to possibilities (tweaking)!

[Lobo]

mnosteele52, you have 3.0 down, gee, you poor guy, tweak that thing
:)