🚀 go-pugleaf

Latency Spikes? What are you smoking? I've been on Shaw@Home for over a year
now and my Quake 2, Quake 3, and Unreal Tournament ping times are amazing!!!
I average a 50ms ping to any good server I get on........


If your having problems.....call your provider...



Mike Craft <mike@intouchsystems.com> wrote in message
news:GEk64.8288$c94.125565@news1.rdc1.sdca.home.com...
> 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
>
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