Originally Posted by squiffy
Certain traffic types are usually given priority over ISP networks, things like http, ssh, etc.
The "lowping" services merely tunnel the WoW game traffic through those protocols, resulting in a better QoS for the traffic, and hence improved pings.
It's real, it works, but your mileage varies from ISP to ISP.
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Qos is rediculously expensive(cpu usage) on core and border routers. No self respecting ISP does any more QoS then they need to.
On a separate issue anyone know what data centers blizz uses ? They seem pretty good. I've never seen them down for cut fiber or power outage. They have had some times where there were routing issues, but thats different.