Game Hosting Over UDP...

compkid87 · Post by **compkid87** » Mon Nov 25, 2002 12:59 am

I have COX cable and optimal Cablenut settings, are there any changes that would improve performance when hosting games over UDP?

By the way, I noticed a major change in performance after changing cablenut settings to "optimal performance." The pings shot up an average of 100ms

ScottE · Post by **ScottE** » Sat Nov 30, 2002 3:26 pm

Tweaks will have absolutly no effect on UDP, UDP is a broadcast protocol, it doesn't have all the error controls that TCP has, if a packet get's lost using UDP, well then it's lost. You can't tweak UDP like you can TCP.

volntn · Post by **volntn** » Mon Dec 02, 2002 12:48 am

Your UPLOAD speed dictates how many people you can host on a server..If you are @128k than 3 maybe 4 at the most and that is pushing it.The TCP/IP tweaks should not be affecting your ping.RCV window and MTU are really the only 2 tweaks that i have tested that affects your download speeds.IMO the cablenut tweaks have no effect outside of RCV and MTU.To large of a RCV window is almost as bad as having one that is to small.

If you have Win XP i would not recommend cablenut at all.As most of the settings are useless in XP and only apply to Win ME,98,95