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• Althor · 11/14/07, 10:24 PM

I'm sorry but if you applied some common sense you'd quite quickly see that it's NOT a case of just "server lag" causing high latency.

I play from Australia. My latency to Spinebreaker (which is a Dallas, Texas server) usually comes in around 450 to 550ms.
My latency to my vent server (also in Dallas) averages 210ms.

The latency of some of my guild mates who live in...wait for it...Dallas, Texas to the game is around 20ms. At the exact same time that I'm at 450 to 550ms.

If it was purely server lag then their latency would be around 250 to 300ms.

There is *something* going on here.

Maybe it's not Internode (I sure hope not because I'm a Node customer). Maybe it's not the international link itself. But somewhere along the line I'm gaining (and pretty much all other Australian players) around 250 to 300ms of extra latency with no good reason.

*edit* That said I recently tried one of those tunneling services (not lowerping) and saw no improvement at all.

11/14/07, 10:24 PM	#105 (permalink)
• Althor Don Flamenco Delmortis Night Elf Priest <Ascension> Jubei'Thos	I'm sorry but if you applied some common sense you'd quite quickly see that it's NOT a case of just "server lag" causing high latency. I play from Australia. My latency to Spinebreaker (which is a Dallas, Texas server) usually comes in around 450 to 550ms. My latency to my vent server (also in Dallas) averages 210ms. The latency of some of my guild mates who live in...wait for it...Dallas, Texas to the game is around 20ms. At the exact same time that I'm at 450 to 550ms. If it was purely server lag then their latency would be around 250 to 300ms. There is something going on here. Maybe it's not Internode (I sure hope not because I'm a Node customer). Maybe it's not the international link itself. But somewhere along the line I'm gaining (and pretty much all other Australian players) around 250 to 300ms of extra latency with no good reason. edit That said I recently tried one of those tunneling services (not lowerping) and saw no improvement at all.