Guide to reduce lag for Window 7 and Vista Users

[Lust]

I found this interesting link to help reduce the lag for the users of Window 7 and Vista users. It does help me a lot. I usually got 1ms as lowest and 750+ms as highest. I have like 8 750+ms I live in other side of the world (or 180% from Canada). I would like to share it to help the community get the experience of lesser lag (even it is not perfect xD)

After I tweaked the system using the guide I found from google, it reduced to 1ms up to <450ms. It reduced a lot of lag (more like I lagged very rarely)

Before you start attempt to tweaking, why not try to check the latency(ms) to check the result?

-cmd > type the "tracert heroserver.bounceme.net"
-record the highest ms and lowest ms (For Lazy people who want quick skim)
-The most important numbers for overall lag are closer to the end (though if the middle somewhere has numbers that's indicative of different problems). - azurerogue

Basically, you can tell the result by: higher ms, greater lag.

After you recorded it, try to do the instruction below this statement.

Link to help reducing the lag!

Note: Restart your PC first before doing the after-effect result.

then you should able to see the result like this (same as above quoted message for convenience):

-cmd > type the "tracert heroserver.bounceme.net"
-record the highest ms and lowest ms (For Lazy people who want quick skim)
-The most important numbers for overall lag are closer to the end (though if the middle somewhere has numbers that's indicative of different problems). - azurerogue

FAQ (Explained in Layman term)
-What is Latency?
Ans: Basically it is like water cycle. It cycles from your client to the server of HeRO. It should be fast and steady or else... The world ends. Kaboom~

-How Latency work?
Ans: Definition of Latency and How it works
For better explanation, think Packet as WATER. Let's say it is like 1 packet = 1 oz of water. Ms is like speed of cycle. Think about water cycle.

-Why is high Latency bad?:
Ans: Well, because it is like... They're trying to get some water in VERY SLOW or LAZY INTERNET *ready for the whips*

-Why only Vista and Window 7?:
Ans: Like what on Life & Code said

It involves disabling Nagle?s algorithm, also commonly known as TCP no delay, which is basically an optimization of network traffic that tries to reduce overall packet volume but can cause extra latency in the connection

For layman term:

Reduce the overall amount of water and I don't care how long you're going to finish

into

I don't care how much water you get as long as cycle it as soon as possible!

-Does it work to XP?
Ans: No, because XP is the best Window OS for gaming.

A big thanks to:
Life & Code

Thanks also to:
Kuroyuki - for giving me layman terms when there are jargons. Also testing using bounceme and tracert.
Internet Stalker - for telling me what is the URL of the server (www.hero-server.net)
azurerogue - for telling me how should we check the ms instead of lowest and highest.

Please tell me the result (Before and After) after you tried to follow the guide I also want to see if it helps you.

[Mulberry]

I just wanted to check and see how this worked. My lowest was 1ms, and my highest was 30ms. I don't really lag at all, despite using Windows 7 on a laptop and always running like 5 million programs at the same time...

Buuut this is pretty useful for the people who do lag, thanks for posting!

[Lust]

wow, 1-30ms. That was amazing connection. O_O

Hmm, probably you're near from Canada or your internet has Optical Fiber wire D:

[Mulberry]

Haha, I wish we had optical fiber. xP We just have normal cable.

I live in Pennsylvania though, so I guess I'm close enough to the server.

[Shikari]

with everything closed (minus msn) which is how I usually play
8-87

with chrome open...it reached 459, and got over 100 3 other times o.O;

[azurerogue]

Several points. Your tracert should be run on "heroserver.bounceme.net" instead of "hero-server.bounceme.net".

When recording highest and lowest MS, you should be aware that the measurements are separate for each step in the trace. Step 1 is almost always going to be 1ms because it's between your computer and your home ip address connection. The most important numbers for overall lag are closer to the end (though if the middle somewhere has numbers that's indicative of different problems).

[Lust]

@Mulberry: Still, that's great even you're just using Copper LAN cable (common) >.>

@Shikari: Yeah, it is normal when you open the other apps-internet-related such as browser.

@Azurerogue: Oh, is it heroserver.bounceme.net? Can you tell me why? :O

Regarding about MS, yeah 1 ms is usually happened. I prefer let people go for recording lowest then highest (good for lazy people who doesn't want to do computation)

Sure, I'll add your tips :D

P.S.: Added some tips from Azurerogue and changed to heroserver.bounceme.net

[azurerogue]

It's heroserver.bounceme.net according to the sclientinfo.xml file which controls the server's available on the log in screen. At least that's what I found.

[Lust]

Oh, wow, that what I really wanted to know. How did you find sclientinfo.xml? I'm still noobie at network ~_~

[Rankin]

It's in your data folder