Cable Modem & Internet Gaming Question

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From: Julio Garrovillas
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 00:00

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Hi all,

I'm a new user of this high speed Cox@home cable system and have one
very curios question. When playing internet games, Unreal Tournament in
particular, I noticed that if I used the cable modem by itself (no
splitter to TV) which requires an atenuator to cut my signal in half
(5+) my game play performance is much better than if I had a splitter to
the TV (without atenuator and TV is off) which should also cut the
signal by half, right?. SO why is that? The pings I'm getting are the
same on either setup so I don't understand why I play really well (as
far as winning all the time by far) on the single feed w/ atenuator
versus the latter.

I know it's not just my imagination because I tried both setups a few
times so can someone please explain and help me understand why? I'd
truly appreciate it.

Thanks,
Julio

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