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In article <943761796.29159.0.nnrp-14.c1c3e0af@news.demon.co.uk>, Tim
Preston <tdp@demon.net> writes
>Neale Hind <neale@easton.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> I'm having problems getting good connections to the gaming battle.net
>> servers operated by Blizzard games.

<snip Tim's response confirming that their setup is consistent with
battle.net requirements>

>There are some tweaks that youcan do to your modem which /may/ improve
>it's performance for gaming purposes (where having a stable, low latency
>connection can be more important than having a high throughput of data),
>but such tweaks my make the performance for other things, such as web
>browsing worse. So yo umay want to set up a separate connection with
>different paramets for games. I'm a bit out of touch with modems these
>days [1] but I suspect that asking in demon.tech.modems or demon.games
>might find some people who can help you with modem tuning.

Please can anyone offer advice on tweaking modem performance for gaming
(i.e. improve latency in preference to throughput)?

<snip stuff about web-cache>

>[1] I *do* still use a modem, but it worked fine 'out of the box' so
>    I've never really played with it.

Same here.
-- 
Neale Hind
neale@easton.demon.co.uk        ---   Insanity is hereditary
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