Are there any active EU dmix groups? I just came back after a break and want to play video games.

I am of Open skill.

Do you have other people using your connection?

Flashing a router to LEDE and using Cake traffic shaping like suggested in this thread made my internet considerably less awful when my flatmates are using it.

I'm not sure what your logic is here. If compression reduces the average packet size to X% of what it was originally, only X% of the original bandwidth will be used. This saving will apply regardless of the rate packets are being sent at.

cl_updaterate 132
cl_cmdrate 132

???

Edit:

Can't think of a good way of phrasing this, but I don't think you should be giving out advice based on justification this weak.

Why?

Why not just cl_interp 0? I don't see anything special about the value 0.0001, so it'll just clamp to 1/cl_updaterate either way.

net_compresspackets 0

This sounds like it will increase network usage, which will presumably already be pretty high seeing as the server is 133 tick. Can't speak for everyone but my internet isn't great so I'd prefer if this were avoided.

Could you elaborate on this?

What is the logic in setting it to 200 in comfig.cfg and 0 in maxperformance.cfg?

Also, I'll just comment that I always saw the bug where cl_particle_batch_mode 2 doesn't draw flames as a positive, as it means that I can actually see when being attacked by pyros.

Does cl_particle_batch_mode 2 improve performance? What are the bugs with it?

Does mat_reducefillrate 1 use more CPU? Does it reduce performance for good graphics cards? Trying to work out why it was moved to igpu.cfg.

What is the logic in setting net_splitpacket_maxrate exactly 1 higher than rate?

What effect does nb_shadow_dist have on gameplay and performance? Does it have any effect if you set r_shadows 0?
Also, the Valve developer wiki article on NextBot states that it is an AI system - how does it relate to shadows?

Could this be set to some extremely large value (ie cl_fasttempentcollision 10000) to effectively disable checking for such collisions? Would this improve performance?

Could this be set to some extremely large value (ie rope_solid_minwidth 10000) to effectively disable drawing ropes? Would this improve performance? Would this have any effect if you set rope_rendersolid 0?

Finally, does snd_cull_duplicates 1 improve performance on good CPUs? Does it have a large effect on sound quality? Interested in why it was moved to stripped.cfg.

Just checked this - the outline around players is disabled with glow_outline_effect_enable 0, but the game still draws teammates health and name above their head's unless you set tf_enable_glows_after_respawn 0. Don't know how much of a performance benefit you get from this but it seems like it might do something.

Why can server tickrate be a decimal but snapshot rate can't?

Though you may be right about this,

This seems like weak justification. If the game did networking at a rate of 66.7 then it wouldn't send 66 whole packets and a single 2/3 of a packet every second, it would send 200 whole packets every 3 seconds. You could use the same logic to say that it's impossible for the server to have tickrate 66.7, as it can't do 2/3 of a tick - this reasoning is clearly invalid, as the sever does have tickrate 66.7.

Also, just to be totally clear, what should I set net_compresspackets to to minimise network usage?

Edit: Comments in comfig.cfg seem to suggest that net_compresspackets_minsize 0 would also reduce network usage. Is this the case? It would also be good to know if there are other settings I could use to reduce network usage further.

From console when creating local server:

SV_ActivateServer: setting tickrate to 66.7

Are you sure the tickrate is 66? This seems strange if that is the case.

Two things:

• The comments here seem unclear. net_compresspackets 0 removes CPU load from packet compression, yet you recommend net_compresspackets 1 for weaker CPUs?
  
• You seem to be using settings that reduce CPU load at the cost of increasing network usage? (Again, the comments are a bit unclear.) Are there settings that could be used to do the opposite - reduce network usage possibly at the cost of increased CPU load?

Just for the sake of discussion:

From this thread

Should any of these be in maxperformance.cfg? Comments in comfig.cfg seem to suggest they might improve fps

r_renderoverlayfragment 0
r_maxmodeldecal 0
cl_phys_props_max 0

Also, you don't mention whether these commands would help, but intuition suggests they might

r_shadowmaxrendered 0
tf_enable_glows_after_respawn 0
tf_playergib 0

Should interp always be an exact multiple of (1 / rate)? I remember reading (I think in Felik's config?) that 0.02 was a good value, which seems to contradict your and Comanglia's configs.

Also, is the tickrate in TF2 66 or 66.66...? (ie, is the minimum interp I should use 0.01515... or 0.015?) Again, I recall reading differing advice on this.

I'm planning on getting a TP-Link AC1750 router and flashing it to LEDE to do traffic shaping as suggested in this thread. However, the router my ISP (Sky) provided is rubbish / locked down and doesn't support bridge mode, so I'll need to buy a new modem.

I've been struggling to find information on modems, so I'm unsure how to choose one that is good and works with my connection.

Does anyone have any advice / recommendations? Speed is about 15 Mb/s down, 0.6 Mb/s up (shared between five people :/) and ISP is Sky.

Would you recommend any particular modem? Connection is about 15 Mb/s down, 0.6 Mb/s up; ISP is Sky.

Sorry for sidetracking thread, am pretty clueless about this stuff.