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I was wondering if anyone could clear this up for me.

If I'm going for the best ping my connection can offer, what's a good and safe reccommended value for both TCP and UDP timeouts?

Right now, I'm using 3600 in TCP and 120 in UDP.

Using the Netalyzr Tool (http://n2.netalyzr.icsi.berkeley.edu/analysis/), I found my current values net me an Upload Latency of around 80 ms and a Download Latency of between 380 and 300 ms, with ACC active, which by the way means Gargoyle is doing a hell of a job fighting Bufferbloat.

General latency is 120 ms, give or take, which is quite good considering I'm in South America and I have the ISP from Hell.

Would lowering either the TCP or UDP values have any noticeable effect on my overall Ping?

Thanks in advance for all replies.

In my testing, changing these values yielded little to no improvement to ping. I had better luck getting my QoS Setup refined and a manual ping target.

The default values in Gargoyle (1.7.1) are:
Max Connections: 4096
TCP 600
UDP 180

The Cisco recommended defaults are different.

These timeouts will have effect at all on your ping times.

When ACC runs by default it calculates your minimum possible ping times which are most effected by your link speed. These are the auto ping time values which you can see in the ACC status section.

Your ping times cannot be meaningfully lower than those values generally.