Originally Posted by buddhasevil
I have been posting on the Blizzard forums to try and lobby for some Hawaii based servers, as we are still in the USA (in name only). Still being in the US will eliminate the Aus etherwebpolitiks issues, and I think this is a good step to bridging the latency gap. I don't see why Blizzard wouldn't set up a few servers on Oahu, and make "truer" oceanic servers. Maybe someone on these forums has some insight on how I can personally continue to lobby for this.
The distance between Brisbane, Australia and Honolulu, Hawaii is 4687 miles.
The distance between Los Angeles, California and Honolulu, Hawaii is 2551 miles.
So maybe just the pure geographic location will cut back the ping? I am by no means a wizard with networking or internet issues, it just seemes to make sense that the closer you are to a server, the less lag you have.
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The population of Hawaii is around 1,250,000, the population of Australia is 21,000,000, New Zealand 4,000,000. If they wont make a server for a area with 25,000,000 , there definitely wont be enough subscribers in Hawaii to justify a server there. That doesn't include all the subscribers in Singapore, Japan etc who would benefit from an Oceanic server farm.
Put simply, there are probably at least 10-15X more WoW subscribers in the Oceanic region then in Hawaii (and thats a conservative estimate), and if we find it impossible to get servers here, I'm sure you will find it 10-15X more impossible to get them in Hawaii.