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Re: So apparently MTU tweaking doesn't always work....

donotreply@activision.com — Mon, 14 May 2012 19:25:01 GMT

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Re: So apparently MTU tweaking doesn't always work....

donotreply@activision.com — Wed, 09 May 2012 00:59:30 GMT

I don't have a QOS setting, but my friend does and it doesn't do much if anything for him.

Re: So apparently MTU tweaking doesn't always work....

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 08 May 2012 10:46:37 GMT

It would be helpful to know what UPnP actually does though, and why disabling it would help. I guess I could just google it.

Re: So apparently MTU tweaking doesn't always work....

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 08 May 2012 04:41:16 GMT

What does disabling UPnP do?

Re: So apparently MTU tweaking doesn't always work....

donotreply@activision.com — Sun, 06 May 2012 03:01:50 GMT

I conceed that the game ALWAYS gives me the absolute worst team mates imaginable, but only SOME insta-kill moments? What did I go like 14-17? I can't remember the last time I went negative on a Call of Duty game. I've got a 4 k/d on MW2 and over a 4.5 k/d on CoD4, and I was holding down a 6 k/d on W@W for a while until I started not caring. So you're telling me the connection wasn't that bad, when a guy who usually goes at least a 2 k/d on a bad game, ends up going negative?

You have to realize that the connection never seems as bad when you're watching someone else.

Re: So apparently MTU tweaking doesn't always work....

donotreply@activision.com — Sat, 05 May 2012 22:15:44 GMT

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Re: So apparently MTU tweaking doesn't always work....

donotreply@activision.com — Sat, 05 May 2012 03:26:25 GMT

One thing I've always noticed, is that anymore the updates just make things worse, lol. They can't seem to get anything right.

Re: So apparently MTU tweaking doesn't always work....

donotreply@activision.com — Sat, 05 May 2012 00:17:04 GMT

Yea, I agree. I guess this is basically what I'm getting at. You shouldn't have to tweak anything to make the game reasonably fair to play, my 60+ dollars that I pay for the game should include a system that is already playable. Ya know, kinda like all the other CoDs before black ops....

Re: So apparently MTU tweaking doesn't always work....

donotreply@activision.com — Fri, 04 May 2012 10:58:10 GMT

Yea, I also said I've done that as well. I've seen the thread. Changing the DNS did nothing. In fact, both of the first two games I posted were with the changed DNS, and the Nuke in MW2 was a couple days earlier and was without it.

Re: So apparently MTU tweaking doesn't always work....

donotreply@activision.com — Fri, 04 May 2012 09:06:39 GMT

Yes, and I believe I took the time out of my day to accurately describe how I've already tried most, if not all, of the other parts of said equation.

Also, how come I have to tweak every little thing on my xbox/ps3, router, and modem for black ops and MW3, but for MW2, W@W, CoD4, CoD3, and CoD2 (didn't play CoD1) you don't have to do anything?

So apparently MTU tweaking doesn't always work....

donotreply@activision.com — Fri, 04 May 2012 05:53:34 GMT

First off, I'd like to state that I'm not trying to bash any of the people on here trying to give suggestions, because I really do appreciate the effort, but as of late nothing has seemed to work. I'll explain.

First off, here's my connection:

[img]http://www.pingtest.net/result/41024437.png[/img]

[img]http://www.speedtest.net/result/1312840318.png[/img]

I'd also like to state that I have an above average router and modem, the cables I'm using are of good quality, I've done all the mumbo jumbo like opening ports, creating static IP's, even tried playing on my phones 3g connection a while back, etc, etc, and just recently changed my DNS server to one that is according to some program, 3.8% faster. Sweet.

Anyway, the other day I decided to get back on MW3 after a fairly long leave of absence (which was great btw, you guys should try it, lol), and, like usual, was getting a fairly extreme amount of lag. I happened to stumble upon a thread on here that was talking about the MTU setting, and decided to mess around. According to what they said, the highest I could get my MTU without defragmenting was 1472, and apparently you need to add 28 to that for whatever reason and that's 1500 for my optimal setting. However, I read someone was having some luck with the MTU at 1400, so I gave it a try. Now, I wasn't unkillable by any means, but I was going like 30-3 in FFA's just running around. It seemed more fair, ya know, if I didn't get the shot off, or missed, I died, and if I did I won. Crazy concept, I know, but it seemed to be working fine. The guns didn't have an unusually high amount of recoil, people weren't taking hitmarker after hitmarker, I wasn't dieing from around corners, people didn't seem to have better than MLG reaction time, etc etc.

So I though I fixed the lag. Well, the next day I get on and it's crazy again. Same 1400 MTU, but I can't win a single gun fight. So I bumped it up to 1472, and it was still insane.

Then, I tried the two extremes, and I have video of what those two games were like, and here they are:

These two games are on PS3, but I have both consoles, and there is obviously lag on both.

First is with the MTU all the way up to 1500, which is apparently my optimal setting:

Second video is with it turned all the way down to 1360, which apparently you can't even do on xbox, lol:

Notice that in both games I had zero time to react, and the other team had enough time to get 3 kills in each final killcam. Keep in mind these were back to back games, but in competely different rooms because I had to quit the game to set this up.

Now this was just a couple days ago on MW2. It's on xbox because the PS3 version is hacked beyond all recognition.

And that's how it usually runs, and it's without having to tinker with anything.

Thoughts?

Re: How to know what your TRUE KDR is.

donotreply@activision.com — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 01:18:57 GMT

Well then I must be pretty nasty because my FFA kdr is 3.5 and my regular kdr is like 2.2

Re: Would anyone on the IW Security Team like to help with a few boosters?

donotreply@activision.com — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:01:30 GMT

That's kinda hard when none of your friends want to play the game because it's so terrible. The only reason I'm still playing (occasionally) is because I'm stubborn, and I'm tired of going back to CoD4 because the current game sucks. I've done that like 3-4 times now and the game, as good as it is, is getting really old now. Believe it or not, it eventually gets boring when you go like 35-2 every single game in TDM.

Re: Would anyone on the IW Security Team like to help with a few boosters?

donotreply@activision.com — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:40:10 GMT

I find it mildly amusing when boosters don't turn the game recording off, lol.

Re: what did they do in the latest patch....its unplayable!

donotreply@activision.com — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:06:47 GMT

You are insinuating that this game was, at one point, playable.

....I think that is an incorrect statement.

Re: COD 4 Modern Warfare, Why no Lag Crazy Lag?

donotreply@activision.com — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:21:14 GMT

btw still waiting for you to actually come back with one of those quotes you claim ive made...

Yea, let me go sift through 7,926 posts to prove what we already know. I'll be right back.

........not.

Re: COD 4 Modern Warfare, Why no Lag Crazy Lag?

donotreply@activision.com — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:10:53 GMT

I'm actually mildy amused at maccabi's skill in dodging questions. You sound like a politician.

Re: COD 4 Modern Warfare, Why no Lag Crazy Lag?

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:56:31 GMT

Aaannnnnnnd,......again.

Re: COD 4 Modern Warfare, Why no Lag Crazy Lag?

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:27:15 GMT

as for the rest of your reply ignoring that as i dont like the implied tone of it.

The reason it had the tone it had is because you've been dodging those questions since the game came out. I would come on here bitching about how the game sucks and you would come on here saying how it's my fault for having crappy internet, then I would post me having 9ms ping and 30down and 5up with 0ms jitter and I'd get a minimal response back. I would post me playing on a 3G connection from my phone and doing well (not shown in the video but I won the FFA 30-5), and I would get a response back about how it must have been fake or something along those lines. The whole time dismissing lag comp even existing, saying you would know because you work in the field.

Then later you changed your tone and said that lag comp was in every game and if you took it out it would be even worse. In response to that, I naturally asked why CoD2 and CoD4 never had any problems with lag, and still play flawlessly (with the occasional hack) even with under 100 people playing in the whole world, and you dodged that question as well. I think you said something along the lines of MW3 sends more data than CoD4, but then we're back to the top with good and bad internet.

Re: COD 4 Modern Warfare, Why no Lag Crazy Lag?

donotreply@activision.com — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:49:21 GMT

It took me a while, but I'm starting to get the distinct notion that you've been trolling this forum all along.

Anyway, I'll bite. However, if you can't tell the difference between dial up and Fios or Comcast Business, then I'm done.

What's more, you always seem to beat around the bush when I mention how well CoD4 is still playing, or how it was possible for me to play on a 3G connection from my iphone and still win FFA's with over a 5k/d.

Also, try explaining how every single mexican is impossible to kill (besides the fact that all they seem to use is noobtubes). I can understand some of them being talented, sure, but (at least on PS3) if a full room of mexicans join, you're pretty much guaranteed a loss with all the hit detection problems and lag (getting killed before they show up on your screen etc.). Another question would also be, beings I live in the northeast, why am I being put in the same room as mexicans? Not just immigrants either, I actually asked one guy on my old GB team (who I see in pubs all the time) where he lived and he said Mexico City. I also get people from Cali regularly.

Now feel free to explain all that without a overly exaggerated lag comp and a horrible match making system.