Originally Posted by Dorlog
I am wondering what causes these high latencies between US and AU though. I just, to test, pinged a server that as far as I know is in Florida (from Amsterdam). The ping is around 110ms. Is there an infrastructure issue between US an AU?
On a related note, My ping to the WoW firewall (the point where you can no longer see pings on a traceroute) is only 20-25ms, and my ingame latency, in raid, is often 100-120ms. Clearly data takes a while inside the WoW network.
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At times their are infrastructure issues. They may have stopped doing it but for a while some traffic at peak was routed through Asia and using the cable from their to cross the pacific. Funnily enough in the beta testing for Diablo II they assigned us too Asian servers but I with others sent them traceroutes showing we were reaching the Asian servers via California.
At this point I think the best that could be hoped for is seperate maintenance for Oceaniac servers but since they are part of the Bloodlust battlegroup with American servers I doubt that is even possible.