As you know, playing World of Warcraft outside of the states have been a real battle for all of us in respect to latency. I personally am using services like lowerping.com or wowtunnels.com and found that they do improve my latency from ~300ms to about ~240ms.
While browsing through wowinterface.com, I’ve stumbled upon an addon that allows you to reduce your latency SIGNIFICANTLY. So I thought to myself, I have to give this a go.
So basically this addon is a VBS (Visual Basic Script) that implements a TCPack fix. I was abit skeptical at first, considering that it might be a script that sends my personal information to the creator but it’s all open source and you can view the script in a text editor (I’ve checked it myself and yes I’m a software developer so I know my shit!). If that still doesn’t make you feel comfortable using it, this addon is apparently endorsed by TankSpot.com (How To: Improve Your Arena Ratings) and it also includes an undo script in it.
Also note this improves your latency in all other online games you play, and works on Windows XP(SP2 and later), VISTA(SP1 and later), and Win7. This unfortunately does not work for Macs, but on the addon’s page he gives a simple command to run at mac prompt to make the same change. Below is the Mac equivalent
Is there a Macintosh version?
Leatrix Latency Fix isn’t supported on Macs. However, you can achieve lower latency in OSX by entering the following command in a terminal window. This will disable delayed acknowledgements until you restart your computer.sudo sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.delayed_ack=0
To disable them permanently, create a text file under “/etc/” called “sysctl.conf” and copy/paste the following line then restart your computer.
net.inet.tcp.delayed_ack=0
To set things back to default, just delete the “sysctl.conf” file and restart your computer.
This means that Ronny, AKA Jhasmine, and my MacBook can benefit from lower latency as well!
Well enough talking Leo, where’s the addon?
Ok, without further a due, here is Leatrix Latency Fix
Kalo nggak salah pas gue baca scriptnya di editor, to put all in short, jadi ini addon ngedorong upload dari pc kita via gaming port ke server nya gila2an, instead game server ping ke kita many times, kita udah duluan tembak kesana. Berhubung windows game port ya itu2 aja, jadi kalo maen other online games otomatis ngebantu (so it seems).
Jadi addon ini ngebuat setting sendiri on how game info traffic tuh bolak balik between server game sama pc sendiri.
Nah uninstall scriptnya gue belon baca, tapi gue assume, asal settingnya direverse, windowsnya udah balik ke sedia kala.
VBA gue nggak se-pro itunya, kira2 betul nggak ye bacaan gue?
Yo software developer, bener nggak tuh tangkepan gue ?
Nah..g ngerti code nya tapi g ga ngerti itu TCPick fix nya ngapain..jadi lu baca aja di website nya..tapi in essence itu vbs nya cmn check lu punya registry settings and look for the value TcpAckFrequency and set it to 1
udah gitu doank
Oooh ok ok
Berarti dia burst refresh latency. Bagus lah, well otomatis rada nyiksa dikit upload, yah nomore gayporn sharing while wownow
Btw le, krn fix ini ada rubah setting registry (bukan modify registry)
Buat yang pake tunnel sama lower ping keknya kena effect deh.
Soalnya mereka punya system registry sendiri deh.
Gue belon testing, tapi gue yakin pasti clash. Harus pilih salah satu
Ini gua baca2 ternyata sama fix yang dulu banget tuh sama. Sama si Leatrix dicompile aja ini jadi bisa auto update registry terus bisa revert back.
nih dia tulis di FAQ 1st point:
Isn’t this the infamous TCP ACK fix?
Yes, but it’s packaged in a neat little script which will make the required changes for you, so you don’t need to go messing about with the registry.
gua inget ini registry trick pernah ada di mmo-champion kira2 2 taon yang lalu.
Gue udah coba nih Leatrix, dengan kombinasi sbg berikut:
1. Gue install Leatrix, abis itu restart comp. Terus gue jalanin Lowerping, trus gue maenin WoW through Freecap. Alhasil di dalem WoW gue latency 4400ms, and reducing terus sampe ke 998ms. akhirnya gue log out..
Next:
2. Gue udah install leatrix, tapi gue play WoW dari shortcut biasa (WoW.Exe), bukan dari freecap, and disini gue matiin Lowerping gue. baru akhirnya gue bisa maen dengan latency 330 – 400ms (biasanya gue normal aja 500 – 600 ms) BUT.. turunnya latency ini tetep nggak nyelamatin gue dari sering ke DC di 25m raid (gormok, Faction fight).
Next:
3. gue uninstall Leatrix, and jalanin Lowerping like usual, and from my perspective, lowerping gives better result to lower latency and prevent continous DC in 25m raid (at least slightly).
anyway, sebelomnya gue udah pernah manually edit registry:
TcpAckFrequency and set it to 1
ook Thx for Michivaz the AV BOTTER for testing that changing registry and lowerping DOES actually clashed.
That means, the internet is taking longer route for transmission, and you do NOT want that.
anyway, ini ada tulisan di elitisjerk, yang menurut gue worth trying;
http://elitistjerks.com/blogs/cadfael/302-fixing_chain_disconnecting.html
maybe udah ada yang pernah baca, but buat yang belom baca, coba diliat deh, disitu ada main reason kenapa kalo pas 25m raid, jadi sering ke DC.
gue udah terapin hampir semua suggestions disitu, and helps untuk ngurangin tingkat disconnections, although nggak completely solve the problems.
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