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hope you enjoy the wonderful latency spikes with your cable modem.. makes
any kinda serious gaming a joke
"Julio Garrovillas" <garrovij@home.com> wrote in message
news:38584592.D4F15028@home.com...
> 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