Major US ISP intros 'Elite Gamer Service' PC upgrades

[HEXUS]

For $15pcm extra Cox Cable provides a service with "reduced lag, jitter and ping spikes".

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[Bagpuss]

Bloody Yanks!

They'd charge for the air you breath if they were allowed to.

[Tabbykatze]

Soooo, it's literally just a service between you and your router? I don't get how this isn't a "fast/priority" lane if it is causing prioritisation in the ISP

[Nifl]

Make the service worse and worse over time and then sell the normal service you would expect from an ISP for a premium... GENIUS!

[LSG501]

So from I can read it's just a fancy name for some QoS software...

[Corky34]

From what i can make out it's basically a VPN to servers / locations that are 'tuned' to prioritise game traffic and probably have fatter pipes.

The only time i can see it being useful is if you wanted to game on servers that are halfway across the world as theoretically you'll have less hops.

[rave_alan]

Doing money of nothing, good business.