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Article #20Re: Cable Modem & Internet Gaming Question
From: Steve
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 00:00
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 00:00
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Packet losses due to the lower signal and errors. That is why they normaly install a cable modem it's own line to the groundblock. Julio Garrovillas wrote: > > 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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