Originally posted by ilike2game
A longer ethernet cord.
Wow, good job talking out of your ass there! A longer cord isn't going to increase lag time. Even a 500 ft ethernet cable is going to be a better connection then someone using wireless, and may add a single millisecond to the ping.
The lag is created by the switch physically breaking the positive and negative circuit in the 'transmit' side of the ethernet cord. 10MB and 100MB Ethernet uses 2 pair of wire (4 out of the 8 wires), a positive and negative for the transmit circuit and a positive and negative for the receive circuit. And YES, ethernet cords can be pinned out differently and if the Solid Orange doesn't work for you the Solid Green should.
A lag switch can work directly between your game system and the cable / DSL modem, but it's best to position an ethernet hub or switch inbetween the router and the PS3 or the 360. This way the FULL transmit and receive links are always live between the swtich and the game system so it never detects a break. Put the lag switch on the cable that connects the cable or DSL modem to the hub or switch.
Activating the lag switch will FREEZE you on everyone elses screens (since you have STOPPED transmitting packets telling the game server where you are and what you're doing) while on your screen you are still moving around since you are still receiving packets. Only when you release the switch does your position suddenly UPDATE (jump to) on everyone elses screen to where you really had moved too while you were lagged. This can mean that the moment you release the lag switch you could suddenly DIE if anyone had seen and attacked you while you were froozen in place on their screen.
This means it can be VERY obvious that you are using a lag switch. Lets say you engaged the switch, went around a corner and shot at an enemy hiding there, and while you are froozen on the other players screen someone shoots you. The moment you 'unlag' you'll get the kill of the person you attacked AND you'll instantly die from the person that killed you (sometimes both of these things happening quite a distance from eachother!) it's pretty obvious to everyone what you just did.
The 'original' way to lag was to simply hit the STANDBY switch on the Motorola Surfboard cable modems. It then moved to these actual switches, to even using lantools to bog down your local network traffic to produce lag.
You can Google "Majic/Lag Switch" for an original tut with pics.