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Old 04/30/08, 12:45 AM   #277 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Ngita View Post
Your conclusion is wrong. Yes Telstra has a times routed us through Asian Cables to get a better price but their are no hops either on the way or at Blizzards end that limit speed. Avele gives a reasonable sounding explanation above for the issues behind this but as Mac user on BigPond Cable my ping has mostly averaged out at 250-300 for the last 3 years .
Bigpond Cable - Windows User - Location Melbourne, Australia

Most nights 220-250 ms
Random nights 300-350 ms

This has got significantly better since I applied the registry fix. The 2.3.2 patch made no difference. I was at 500ms previously.
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