http://www.smoothping.com/

Lateralus · Post by **Lateralus** » 28 May 2009, 14:08

Anyone tried?
Gonna try when i come home.

http://www.smoothping.com/

Thingummywut · Post by **Thingummywut** » 28 May 2009, 15:25

I tried it just now. Did everything their guide said.
As soon as I started wow I got error =/, and wow closed down.
So I didn't get the chance to try it out and im too tired to figure out what's wrong

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hope someone else get's it working.

Meek · Post by **Meek** » 28 May 2009, 19:08

tried it. works like a charm, connected to the netherlands server wich i saw on their page when i pinged it that i had 37ms to the dutchies.
logged in to orgrimmar had red latency the first 2 minutes altough it didnt feel like it so i think the ping meter in wow is inaccurate now.
all i can say im 100% that i have about 30-50ms now, a whole new feel to my rotations now that i have to relearn due to years of playing this game with latency i sortof "learned" how to somewhat work around a bit when playing :p
i give you a pretty easy example:
before:
i could run forward before my casting of the mount has ended and run away bicycling around with my legs at a mount speed, with no interrupt happening ofcourse.
now if i even try 1 millisecond to run forward before the casting has ended i interrupt the cast instantly.
the ping that shows in wow seems like the same numbers it always used to be but man it feels totally different

i can add that used to play with 150+ms, when raiding i usually had 250-300+ms.
cant wait to try it and see the difference on sundays raid.

Thingummywut · Post by **Thingummywut** » 28 May 2009, 19:21

What OS are you on Meek? Im thinking it's because of that mine doesn't work =/.

Meek · Post by **Meek** » 28 May 2009, 19:32

i use win xp professional sp2 or later. cant remember

Thingummywut · Post by **Thingummywut** » 28 May 2009, 19:53

Ah okey, im on Windows 7, might be that then. Though im not affected by my latency at all, would be fun to try it out though.

Asharak · Post by **Asharak** » 28 May 2009, 22:08

i use vista atm and testing this thing for a sec, and my latency is now around 70, almost cut my latency in half!

Yaur · Post by **Yaur** » 28 May 2009, 22:39

Thingummywut wrote:Ah okey, im on Windows 7, might be that then. Though im not affected by my latency at all, would be fun to try it out though.

I have Windows 7 aswell and it it doesn't work for me. As soon as I try to use Freecap to start WoW I get a error.

Thingummywut · Post by **Thingummywut** » 29 May 2009, 09:59

I have Windows 7 aswell and it it doesn't work for me. As soon as I try to use Freecap to start WoW I get a error.

That's it then. It doesn't support Windows 7

. Too bad, it seems like a good program.

Lateralus · Post by **Lateralus** » 29 May 2009, 10:13

Nice that it seems to work, havent tried it myself yet since my comp is at the repair place. But ill get it tonight. gonna be awesome to try in arena

Shizume · Post by **Shizume** » 29 May 2009, 11:01

lowered my ms from 180 to 40 yay

Thingummywut · Post by **Thingummywut** » 29 May 2009, 11:13

Meh, now that I know that it works I wanna try it!

Dosan · Post by **Dosan** » 29 May 2009, 11:15

Is it legal and will you get banned by using it? Any more chance of being infected with virusses, trojans or hacking programs?

Post by **Fenz** » 29 May 2009, 11:18

There is no catch, really! Your ping is lowered through a process called "SSH Tunneling". You can try searching on Google for "SSH Tunnel" or visit this article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunneling_protocol.

Basically, the SmoothPing service takes advantage of the higher priority that encrypted traffic is given on the Internet. Simply put, we are able to redirect your connection from the slow, every day "pipes" that are being used constantly by millions of users, to the much faster, infrequently used, high speed Secure routing on the internet.

The SmoothPing service is nothing more than a proxy server, essentially just making your connection from your computer to the Blizzard servers as fast as possible. Nothing in game is modified and there is no "cheating" invovled. There are 10000's of people worldwide playing WoW via SSH Tunnelling and the number of players doing this is growing every day.

According to their website.

Dosan · Post by **Dosan** » 29 May 2009, 11:21

Yes that sounds good, but maybe a little bit to good to be true tbh.

Why is it free to use?