HOW TO: Optimize your Network connection for less desync

Thanks tramshed. Just noticed I used the $ symbol instead of the & symbol, but it's appropriate with the amount of money I'm paying :)

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mark1030 wrote:

Would AT$T Uverse be considered DSL or cable? It comes over the phone line but includes television, so I don't know if the infrastructure is similar to cable.

I believe tramshed is correct.

It's been a long time since I've been with AT&T, but Dial-up and DSL is transmitted over a telephone line. Cable is transmitted over a coaxial cable. If I'm not mistaken, AT&T television is transmitted through a satellite provider.

Your info is out of date. Uverse is 100% through upgraded phone lines. Many times as fast as the old DSL lines for Internet and up to 4 concurrent HDTV feeds (my service can only get 3 HD and 1 SD due to my distance from their equipment somewhere outside).

Verizon Fios is considered cable right?

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mark1030 wrote:

Your info is out of date. Uverse is 100% through upgraded phone lines. Many times as fast as the old DSL lines for Internet and up to 4 concurrent HDTV feeds (my service can only get 3 HD and 1 SD due to my distance from their equipment somewhere outside).

While it is considerably faster than most DSL, it is still DSL. VDSL iirc.

I would tweak the settings using that program, but the documentation is out of date and I don't like changing things that I am unfamiliar with. I've googled various Network Adapter settings and made changes based on that research though.

If someone here knows a place documenting the new settings that v3.xx of the program introduced then that'd be swell.

Edit: http://www.speedguide.net/articles/windows-7-vista-2008-tweaks-2574 is, however, a pretty awesome guide.

not saying this doesnt work for everyone, but it made no difference to my system/game. maybe it's down to the server and the game itself that cant handle me doing whirling blade all the time haha.

for your info this is my system spec:-
win 7 ultimate 64bit
8gb ram
gtx 660 ti


to be honest this lagging, rubberbanding issue didnt start happening till they rolled out the patch (for got the version number) with the countdown clock at the login screen

The title of this thread may be a little misleading. If I'm not mistaken, this thread is instructions on how to configure settings for your network adapter.

It does not tell you how to configure your modem/router, (in my case, I don't think that's possible), your anti-virus software or your firewall. And there's some things that only your ISP can control.

So, you are correct. It may not help everyone. Even if any other issues are resolved. All I know is, it helped me.

(Perhaps the title should be: "How To: Optimize your Network Adapter for less desync" instead.

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Edit: And I'm playing a dual-wielding Ranger that spams Cyclone and Flicker Strike. I still get some desync, but it's very minimal. And, of course, the title does say, ". . . for less desync". It doesn't claim to eliminate desync altogether. ;)

It's basically setting your network adapter to never repeat a request for data that was lost during transmission. Instead it just doesn't give a fuck and proceeds to wait for new data. This ensures it is only processing current data and not data that is several milliseconds old because of repeated transmissions of it.

Time spent waiting on successful delivery of a missed data packet, would be better spent on forgetting the packet that failed to be transmitted and instead immediately processing the next packet successfully transmitted to the network card.

This setup minimizes the likelihood of encountering rubberbanding and/or desync as you're network card is no longer holding on to old data for eons then suddenly processing new data.

By default it seems most network cards built in to motherboards are setup to minimize packet loss, at the expense of latency. This default setup causes the network card to try it's darnedest to never miss a packet, even if it is no longer relevant.


Of course this is mostly only an improvement for software that uses a network model similar to Path of Exile and maybe some Torrent/specialist programs. I doubt it would have much effect on a game like Diablo III or Starcraft II.

Since you two want to mince words.
The title should be "How to make windows stop fucking with your network traffic."

Fucking hippies.