Is disabling Nagle's Algorithm a bad idea?

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I’ve read that this can help reduce latency if I disable it but I’m not sure what it does if any negative side effects.

Anybody shed some light on this? ty

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Is John Nagle related to Pat Nagle?

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This is ANCIENT advice, it’s useless now. The WoW client disables nagle algorithm with its own connections. Open the Options menu go to Network and you’ll see “Optimize Network for Speed” enabled by default. That’s disabling Nagle algorithm, being done as an application level modification rather than doing an OS level modification like the old tips always advised.

This was added in 4.0.6 by the way, so this advice has been useless since February 2011