Optimal Gaming Performance - Ethernet Tweaks

[dark_moon]

Anyone know if that settings are recommend?:
https://gist.github.com/CHEF-KOCH/6878f ... 961baba5e4

The guy make good stuff but i never heard of such tweaks and wonder if they are real good.

[John connor]

Not sure. I just built a new computer with both a Killer NIC and an Intel NIC and I think those settings are there. I'll give these a go and see what happens. Although, I haven't had any trouble with my speed or anything. I have 100 MbPS down.

[adisib]

I'll give these a go and see what happens. Although, I haven't had any trouble with my speed or anything. I have 100 MbPS down.

Those tweaks aren't aimed at increasing download speeds. They are aimed at decreasing latency.

[John connor]

I know that. It's just that my connection has been pretty stable while playing online games, etc.

[Moonchild]

Whether this will help or not depends greatly on your hardware.

For example? Checksum off-loading is going to be much more efficient when done by the actual NIC, unless your NIC is particularly slow/crappy/old. The ethernet chips are designed to do this kind of processing. Having the network stack do this will cause a lot of extra latency if you have to retransmit/check packets, and may also be interrupted with heavy CPU load.

The same goes for flow control. switching that off actually kills proper use of the send/receive buffers in the NIC and will serve only to make the datastream more uneven.

In short: these mechanisms are in place for a reason. I'd be extremely careful disabling any of it, and even more careful disabling all of them as suggested.

[dark_moon]

Thanks Moonchild. I use the defaults then