Battleping?
- Thread starter Necuno
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I've used BattlePing for ages now for World of Warcraft. Basically it ensures all your MMO traffic gets routed optimally and ensures the traffic gets the highest priority on your ISP's network by tunneling it through SSH.
I haven't played Rift before, but it worked very well for WoW, went from 300ms to 180ms. While it did lower my latency, what I found more important than that was the stability it gave. Just a plain ol' shaped/unshaped ADSL connection to EU WoW has regular jitter, spikes and more occasionally a disconnect due to shaping/contention of international bandwidth, BattlePing completely eliminated that. Even more interesting is that our undersea cables often get anchors dragged over them, so the ISP swaps over to HIGHLY contented backup bandwidth, normally killing any plans for international gaming for a bit. With BattlePing because the traffic is seen as high priority, you can carry on playing just fine in most cases.
They have a 10 minute trial you can use to log in quick and see if the improvement (or lack thereof) is worth paying for.
I also use Lowerping for Ultima Online since BattlePing doesn't support UO and that seems to work just as well. In fact UO went from unplayable to playable with a double click =)
I haven't played Rift before, but it worked very well for WoW, went from 300ms to 180ms. While it did lower my latency, what I found more important than that was the stability it gave. Just a plain ol' shaped/unshaped ADSL connection to EU WoW has regular jitter, spikes and more occasionally a disconnect due to shaping/contention of international bandwidth, BattlePing completely eliminated that. Even more interesting is that our undersea cables often get anchors dragged over them, so the ISP swaps over to HIGHLY contented backup bandwidth, normally killing any plans for international gaming for a bit. With BattlePing because the traffic is seen as high priority, you can carry on playing just fine in most cases.
They have a 10 minute trial you can use to log in quick and see if the improvement (or lack thereof) is worth paying for.
I also use Lowerping for Ultima Online since BattlePing doesn't support UO and that seems to work just as well. In fact UO went from unplayable to playable with a double click =)
bramabull
New member
i used this service when it was free, i think it was a testing phase, the ping usualy in WOW was around 230-300 without battleping.
Using the service it went down to around the 100ms mark for the UK server, and you can see the diff right away.
I just dono if its worth spending the money for the wow account and then the battleping service?
there are others out there, paid and free ones. i just dont like the idea of sending traffic though a 3rd party software progy where they might be able to sniff my username and password to my account etc.....
however, battleping was really good
Using the service it went down to around the 100ms mark for the UK server, and you can see the diff right away.
I just dono if its worth spending the money for the wow account and then the battleping service?
there are others out there, paid and free ones. i just dont like the idea of sending traffic though a 3rd party software progy where they might be able to sniff my username and password to my account etc.....
however, battleping was really good
_Caboose_
MG's resident Boozer
FIrst used battle ping with Aion, then went onto smoothping, then from smoothping to WTFast (mweb special free thing), and i must say that WTFast is the best one actually. Even though it shaves the ping by 20-30 between the the other 2. If you got mweb give it a try, what can it hurt? It is free for mweb peepz
CyberDemon
New member
I tried that Mweb exclusive offer one(WTFast), which worked fine for a while and then I had some problems so I uninstalled it.
Necuno
The Piper
Made no change in the overall experience with mweb if I use my prepaid shaped or home data 1 + platinum I get 180-234ms without battleping. Main problem still is and will be for long time just too much users on a network that can't support them 24.7. Back in day when I started with webafrica we always had very low ping till it started to take up...
