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r3dshift




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PostPosted: Fri, 11th Dec 2020 21:23    Post subject: Haste
Does anyone use it, and in the EU?

If so, does it actually work?


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Frant
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PostPosted: Sat, 12th Dec 2020 02:59    Post subject:
Sounds like half a scam to me. Sure, it's possible that they can perform some slight improvements for the games they support by routing all your traffic to their "gateway" that may have a more direct route to the game servers meaning less bouncing around before reaching the target and lower latencies.

That does require that you have a fast connection to begin with (as in low latency) and short route to their node that you'll be using. There are no magic tricks to improve your latency. You need a good ISP, the fastest/shortest route to the server you are connecting to. I guess you could try doing a traceroute or some other basic test to see how many jumps and how much latency each jump adds to see if there are any bottlenecks on en route to the game server.

Personally I'd be wary of these solutions. By all mean, give it a try. Perhaps it improves your lag by creating a shortcut from you->ISP->their low latency infrastructure. Even if they have some clever solutions to minimize latency from their end you still need good stuff on your end (high quality ISP, correctly configured NIC, correctly configured router) in order to take advantage of any performance improvements they can offer. I don't know if their Pro package software reconfigures your network settings (I guess they do) so I can't really say if it works for you or not.


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r3dshift




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PostPosted: Sat, 12th Dec 2020 03:42    Post subject:
Thanks for the input, Frant.

Was considering trying out the free version as there were issues with my ISP today, but those now seem to have been resolved. I too am wary of such software, that's why I'm looking to read about first-hand experience coming from a reliable source.


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PostPosted: Sat, 12th Dec 2020 04:55    Post subject:
ur better off talking to the support of the game/isp itself and measure the hops n stuff in tracert and figure out with them if something is wrong
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PostPosted: Sat, 12th Dec 2020 06:15    Post subject:
I agree with Frant.
For the vast majority of cases if you can see a noticeable lag to a game, no 3rd party software will make it noticeably better. It might make it 'measurably' better by using different routes, as in take a slighter better route if your lucky, and give you 10% less cumulative route lag. But if your in say the 400+ ping range, does dropping to 360+ ping really help?

In the rare case that its a specific node in the route you are taking, using it MIGHT help if they happen to go a different route from you to the game that isn't using any of that same path. But usually that 'bad' route node will be corrected, routed around, etc eventually by just the the way the very natures of internet works(or should work in a perfect world): The ISP will see consistent issues with it for all uses and blacklist to go around it or it will be offline by its providers/hosts to be fixed and auto routing will find you a new one).

Very rarely is huge lag issues not on either of the 'unavoidable' source or target end of the connection (Your ISP's chain out, or game servers in). As if unless you are using a totally crap ISP, or live in a place that only has one 'main out' of the entire region, it will load balance to the best routes it can find between you and where you want to go to.


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