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Guide to Improving Latency on International Servers in Under 15 minutes

By [AU] Tabris:DarkPeace

Step 1: Install the UDP Latency Hotfox for Vista / Windows 7
- http://support.microsoft.com/kb/979612
- Only do this if you're not using Symantec Endpoint Security, as there is a patch to this hotfix for those running Symantec Endpoint Security. Other Symantec and/or Norton Firewalls should work fine!

Step 2: cFosSpeed - The Internet Accelerator
- http://www.cfos.de/en/cfosspeed/cfosspeed.htm
- Then just set it to optimize ping and let it calibrate for your connection.

Step 3: Tell your friends
- Get gaming people!

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[AU] Tabris:DarkPeace [author] 11 May @ 8:41am

I have since switched to Linux… years ago now.

Aoi Blue 27 Jun, 2014 @ 9:48am

Yes, it has a slight learning curve. It's not as much as it used to be, though, so long as you don't chose a from-scratch style distro like Slackware or Gentoo.

[AU] Tabris:DarkPeace [author] 27 Jun, 2014 @ 1:27am

Yeah that is true, but Linux is not for everyone.

Aoi Blue 26 Jun, 2014 @ 5:32pm

Or you can just switch to Linux. It's default settings are very fast, but you can adjust the settings in sysconf to perform memory/speed tradeoffs, and cpu-time/speed tradeoffs to dramatically improve ping time and reliability.

Muleke_Trairao 15 Oct, 2013 @ 8:17pm

No prob.

[AU] Tabris:DarkPeace [author] 15 Oct, 2013 @ 4:39pm

Hahaha, what a typo. Thanks for letting me know. :-)

Muleke_Trairao 15 Oct, 2013 @ 11:28am

"Step 1: Install the UDP Latency HOTFOX(Hotfix) for Vista / Windows 7"
You typed wrong, buddy, just so you know.

[AU] Tabris:DarkPeace [author] 14 Oct, 2013 @ 7:48pm

Some people have reported a drop in latency of 44% by doing this.
Most people can expect 5% to 25%.

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