I’ve used many addons for Warcraft and thought I’d make a post and share this script with you. Although it’s not technically an addon, it makes a noticeably change in your latency in game, at least it did for me.
Leatrix Latency Fix Is a set of scripts that after installed will lower your latency.
How it works-
Online games generally use the TCP protocol which requires that network segments sent to your computer be acknowledged in order to provide a reliable connection.
Windows bundles these acknowledgements together and sends them in pairs. While this is an efficient way of dealing with them generally, the inevitable delays caused by the bundling process increase latency considerably.
This is because when Windows queues up an acknowledgement in order to bundle it with the following one, the game server has to wait for the acknowledgement timer to expire before sending new data.
Leatrix Latency Fix removes the acknowledgement bundling process so that an acknowledgement is sent immediately for every segment that’s received. This produces a significant reduction in latency as there is no longer a delay before new data is sent to your computer.
In a normal networking environment, you would prioritise network efficiency over latency and use the Windows defaults, but in online games the opposite is true and you want the lowest latency you can possibly get.
It has been scanned by many virus scanners with a clean result. I’ve tried it for myself, my latency was usually 300-350 on the server I’ve played on for 5 years and since I installed it my latency hasn’t been over 130.
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Hey Zeaks Bless here again we mentioned your blog again over at Horde Review thought I would just let you know we are still supporting you over there.
Thanks Bless, I visit your site quite often. This script seems to work really well.