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To PPoE or not to PPoE ...

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 1:33 pm
by Outersquare
I recently 'upgraded' my old Netgear modem/Tenda router combo to a spiffy new Billion 7800VDPX. While reading up on setup for this thing, I noted in my ISP setup documentation (http://www.internode.on.net/support/gui ... rs/7800nl/) that PPoE was possibly better for gaming than PPoA. The Billions seem to default to PPoA.

Now in the old early days of DSL, PPoE was all I ever used. Is it still considered a Quake standard? I'm curious about the relative effects of each on my Quakelive experience. Has anyone here compared them under gaming conditions?

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 2:17 pm
by booGz
Techinically speaking PPPoA has less overhead per MTU than PPPoE... but its really fucking marginal... it's interesting to read that internode say PPPoE would have some advatage

Your best bet would be to try them both and decide for yourself...

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 6:02 pm
by Mr_Bombadil
sorry ot cant remember now, but yeah can vaguely remember from the old days researching about it and ended up using ppoe.
with internode as well.
btw what profile you using? low latency, annex m here, ping 32 to sydney servers from hobart, not bad i think.

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 10:18 pm
by frodo
FFs B I'm in Sydney and not much better

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 11:26 pm
by Mr_Bombadil
see if you can get interleaving turned off frodo, should shave around 10 ms off your ping.

Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2013 7:21 pm
by frodo
how do I go about this? I haven't looked into ping improving things since I stopped using my us robotics dial up :)

Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2013 3:12 am
by booGz
you need to talk to your isp