Typical Scenario
If you could listen to a conversation between your computer and the game server, this is what you would hear.
Before Leatrix Latency Fix is installed:
* Server: "Ok computer, I just sent a data packet over to you, got it?"
* Your computer: ...
* Server: "Come on, answer me! I don't have all day!"
* Your computer: ...
* Server: "Ok, forget it, I've waited long enough, sending another one over! Got it?"
* Your computer: "Yep, got that one, also got the one you sent before, thanks."
* Server: "Well, why didn't you acknowledge the first one when I sent it? I was waiting ages!"
* Your computer: "Sorry, I'm just trying to make the network more efficient by bundling the acknowledgements together in pairs."
* Server: "Nevermind efficiency, this isn't a corporate domain you know. You do realise that the longer you take to acknowledge a packet, the more time I have to spend waiting around instead of sending more data?"
* Your computer: "Well sorry but this is how I'm setup by default."
After Leatrix Latency Fix is installed:
* Server: "Ok computer, I just sent a data packet over, got it?"
* Your computer: "Yep, send the next!"
* Server: "That was fast! Ok, here's another, got that?"
* Your computer: "Yep, send the next!"
* Server: "Wow! What an improvement! Now that's more like it! Much better than giving me the silent treatment so I am forced to wait for acknowledgement timeouts, isn't it?
* Your computer: "Yep, it's certainly keeping me on my toes, thanks!"