| Create a Restore Point before tweaking to restore settings if conflicts arise. 1) Open Start Menu, type restore in the search bar. 2) Open Create restore point, select the Create button. 3) Name the restore point and click Ok |
| From Aces High Tech Support forum page “Let me start by dispelling some myths. 1) Your ping is some what irrelevant to the servers. If it is below 250ms, then you are golden. Faster is not always better. For example, if your connection is ping changes from 10ms to 90ms regularly, then that is worse than having a connection which pings range from 200ms to 210ms. Having a steady ping is the best connection, regardless of the speed. This is not a first person shooter where the first packet arriving wins. 2) Plane warping is not as much server related as it is client or Internet related. This is a simple fact…” – Skuzzy (HTC) |
Cloudflare Speed Test
When you use Speed Test, Cloudflare receives the IP address you use to connect to Cloudflare’s Speed Test service. Cloudflare uses your IP address to estimate your geolocation (at the country and city levels) and to identify the Autonomous System Number (ASN) associated with your IP address.
Cloudflare shares anonymized measurement information (e.g., the estimated geolocation, ASN associated with your Speed Test, etc.) with our measurement partners as part of Cloudflare’s contribution to a shared Internet performance database. We do not share your IP address with our measurement partners.
As a part of this Speed Test, Cloudflare receives the following information:
- Your IP address;
- An estimate of your location (Country, City);
- The Autonomous System Number of your ISP (ASN).
Cloudflare truncates your IP address that it receives as part of your use of the Speed Test to /24 and /48 for IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, respectively.
Speedguide.net TCP/IP Analyzer
The Analyzer reads the information stored in TCP/IP packet headers that are sent from your PC to our server. It does not read your Registry in any way, it simply reads packet headers containing information about your TCP/IP settings. This is the most accurate method we’re aware of, since it is OS-independent, and the Analyzer sees what your end actually advertises to external servers (which, in some cases differs from the system configuration).
As the server receives a SYN packet, it extracts the TCP options from it and remembers them, along with the remote port and IP pair. It then continues listening for other packets, which usually arrive (the browser must send at least “GET /” i order to receive any data). Once the browser request is complete, the server sends the simplified web page content, complete with instructions to the Analyzer parser script.
Speedguide.net TCP Optimizer
Using Speedguide.net app spares agony of manually making the registry settings, and a good tool for custom tweaking.
While the SG TCP Optimizer is designed to give you the best possible throughput online, it can also help improve your gaming experience. There are, however a few subtle differences when optimizing for throughput/file transfer vs. gaming/reduced latency.
To tweak your system for the best possible gaming performance
1) In the TCP Optimizer, set your advertised internet speed, choose the “optimal” settings, and “Apply” them (you can postpone the reboot for now).
2) Set Network Throttling Index and System Responsiveness
In the Advanced tab of the Optimizer, set the Gaming Tweak – Network Throttling Index:
NetworkThrottlingIndex: disabled:ffffffff
SystemResponsiveness: gaming: 0
Disable Naggling
3) In the “Advanced” tab, set the “Gaming Tweak – Disable Nagle’s Algorithm“:
TcpAckFrequency: 1
TcpNoDelay: 1
TcpDelAckTicks: 0
4) Apply the Optimizer settings and reboot when prompted.
After applying the settings and rebooting, also see the Gaming Tweaks article for additional settings to your PC and NAT router not covered by the program.
Network Adapter
Right click on Start button and select Device Manager. Look for Network adapters and double click it. Right click on a network adapter listed in this category and select Properties. Click on Advanced tab.
- Disable all features with “Offload” in the name
- Disable all power saving settings (Green, Eco, Power Saving etc)
- Adaptive Inter-Frame Spacing = Disable
- Flow Control = Disable
- Interrupt Moderation = Disable
- Interrupt Moderation Rate = OFF
- Enable PME = Disable
- Packet Priority & VLAN = Disable
- Jumbo Packet = Disable
Most of options in this category ensure reliability, but cause delay in network traffic, resulting in game network data being late when it should have already been processed, meaning kills you were supposed to make in a game never happen in time, which is always bad.
- Set Receive Buffers and Transmit Buffers to 96
Connection buffers can prevent data loss if the system cannot process data in time, but having data in the buffers can cause delays before reaching the game engine. Using very low values on a fast system can reduce the delay, but may cause packet loss on low end systems. Adapter settings can be experimented with to optimize performance.
- Set Receive Side Scaling (RSS) to ENABLED
- Set number of RSS Queues to a higher value (2 in my case)
| Flushing the DNS Flushing the DNS is useful in the removal of bad caches since the flush completely removes all the information stored within the cache. To Flush the DNS Cache: 1) In Start Menu search bar, type cmd, and press Enter. 2) Type or copy and paste ipconfig /flushdns in the Command Prompt, and press Enter. 3) The user has now flushed the DNS Cache and will receive a message that they have successfully done so. |
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