so it's supposed to handle your rates automatically but keep an eye out for your "rate". zling and i were seeing people skipping all over the place, especially when there was a lot of shooting, gore, or talking. turns out my rate was set at 7500 and his was set at 5000. bumped it up to 20-30k and it was sooo much better. no idea why they were set so low, and it wasn't always like that because it was running great early on, but if you start seeing people skip around with normal ping, check your rate.