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I was wondering if anyone knew much about interleaving and any effects it may have on connecting to NetQuake servers.
I've been having a gander at the techy bits.
By default, the wonderful institution of British Telecom, turns on interleaving nowadays. Briefly, basically better packet control it seems.
MAXdsl lines take advantage of this apparently but with other ISP's I'm not sure it's on by default.
Soooo.. I was on a QuakeWorld server, (don't hit me) and it was suggested turning OFF interleaving would reduce ping by 20-30 !
As a result I asked BT to hit the big red button and, Huzzah ! less then 48 hrs later my ping was slashed from 50-60 down to 25 !
Quote from one of many pages -http://www.kitz.co.uk/adsl/interleaving.htm
'BT state that interleaving can increase latency by an additional 20-40ms. Whilst this will not be noticeable to the vast majority of users, ardent gamers are the ones most likely to complain about additional latency and therefore prefer a slower sync speed than higher latency.'
That's quite a drop. I thought I'd try the NQ servers too.. but can't connect.
To ANY of the Euro servers. I've tried 4 or 5 clients now. Bugger all.
Before I talk to the lovely man at BT, does anyone know if this is a direct connection to BT ? It surely seems so. And anyone aware if it can be resolved ?
Again, apologies if this has already been discussed but it also maybe of use to others.
Any thoughts would be nice.
H
I've been having a gander at the techy bits.
By default, the wonderful institution of British Telecom, turns on interleaving nowadays. Briefly, basically better packet control it seems.
MAXdsl lines take advantage of this apparently but with other ISP's I'm not sure it's on by default.
Soooo.. I was on a QuakeWorld server, (don't hit me) and it was suggested turning OFF interleaving would reduce ping by 20-30 !
As a result I asked BT to hit the big red button and, Huzzah ! less then 48 hrs later my ping was slashed from 50-60 down to 25 !
Quote from one of many pages -http://www.kitz.co.uk/adsl/interleaving.htm
'BT state that interleaving can increase latency by an additional 20-40ms. Whilst this will not be noticeable to the vast majority of users, ardent gamers are the ones most likely to complain about additional latency and therefore prefer a slower sync speed than higher latency.'
That's quite a drop. I thought I'd try the NQ servers too.. but can't connect.
To ANY of the Euro servers. I've tried 4 or 5 clients now. Bugger all.
Before I talk to the lovely man at BT, does anyone know if this is a direct connection to BT ? It surely seems so. And anyone aware if it can be resolved ?
Again, apologies if this has already been discussed but it also maybe of use to others.
Any thoughts would be nice.
H
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