Thus spake Ed
Jeff McAdams wrote: "And the MTU shouldn't matter for Quake and the like. Quake and the like tends to use very small packets, packets where the MTU on the link isn't relevant."
Not necessarily... if the packets are always larger then Quake would lag and time out. Have the client manually set their MTU down to 576 and see what the result is. I may be wrong but I have seen stranger things cause problems on games such as Quake.
Well...if there's other stuff on the link (someone doing an ftp transfer) sure, cranking down the MTU will help (I suspect this falls into the too little, too late department though). But if you're only running Quake on the link, I doubt dropping the MTU to 576 is going to help any...I've never seen Quake send any packets of that size or larger, so the MTU is totally irrelevant in that situation.
I know when USR had an issue with Quake that was one solution... we were deeply involved in it.
I never saw any change in performance in Quake by changing the MTU...we tried it when people were suggesting it, but didn't do anything here. Like I said, if it was Quake traffic mixed in with other stuff, dropping the MTU helped, but the performance would generally be so sucky in that situation that nothing would make game play satisfactory...dropping the MTU only made it to be not quite so terribly painful. :)
However until a code revision it wasn't completely resolved. Think about it though... USR even cared about Quake and made an issue of it and resolved it. 3com would laugh about an issue with gaming. That shows how even the little things were important to USR.
Actually, on the NETServers, "Quake Lag" was *never* resolved fully. It got better, but it was never to the point that I would consider acceptable.
We were PROUD to be a USR ISP! Used to rip all the other ISP's that used other access servers... now we feel like they are ripping on us ;-(
Agreed there. -- Jeff McAdams Email: jeffm@iglou.com Head Network Administrator Voice: (502) 966-3848 IgLou Internet Services (800) 436-4456 - To unsubscribe to usr-tc, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe usr-tc" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message.