On a EU account, Anyone know? There’s a strong chance I’ll be moving over stateside in the coming months and whilst I am stateside the best ping I’ve experienced is around the 300ms mark.
Anyone got any lower?
I get around 110ms to the US realms.
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If it’s for Classic, enjoy your 7 hour queue, all the streamers going to US
I don’t at all give a flying fart about streamers. Thanks for the no reply though!!
Is that combined (ie both pings aggregate)
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I had around 120-130 when I was playing on tichondrius for a few months in mop.
If you’re playing from US to EU it depends a lot more on where you live than EU to US since all the EU servers are in France while US servers are both on the east coast and the west coast, don’t think you’ll get under 300-400 if you wanna play on EU from the west coast.
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300-400 is what australians get on EU servers calm down xd
West coast to EU you can expect 180+
It doesn’t matter what other people get it’s what you get and that will depend on your internet provider even with a VPN.
Any clue what you’d get approximately from Florida to EU server?
streamers… streamers everywhere!
Not playing current wow but classic stresstest had 46ms in Slovakia
That is Home and World not the average. I just checked again and it’s 102 Home and 103 world that’s to Gul’Dan.
I do have a 450mb down and 40mb up fibre connection though.
Just checked Darkspear and got 160 so not as bad as I thought. Ty for the correction. Will probably be somewhere in the same ballpark the other way around too then.
Ping is just the response time from your machine - through your Service Provider’s infrastructure to the Blizz server
It will be more greatly affected by which DNS server you use that the realm / zone you play on
Your up/down speeds are fairly irrelevant because WoW doesn’t need a heck of a lot of bandwidth
Not really as you’ll be accessing a couple of servers all the time so you dont need to make regular DNS queries.
Going through routes in the USA like Level3 is going to be a bigger issue.
Internet infrastructure in the USA is embarrassingly bad.
Optimal DNS increases throughput
As does using a wired connection rather than wireless - ensuring your own network infrastructure is in good condition - especially badly routed / twisted cable - loose connections etc.
It isn’t just about distance - it’s about the infrastructure you run through from home to Blizz
And as you rightly point out routing signal through the states is sub-optimal for a UK/ EU user
tell that to finalboss, who actually comes to EU to play with eu streamers here…
From southern Ontario to EU, I get 120 ms, sometimes up around 200+ ms. Feels ok, and I don’t even get any of this unplayable lag that other players complain about. On basic 10 download 1 upload, except actually lower.
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It really depends on who the traffic is routed by, particularity when crossing the Atlantic. You and your neighbour could be 20 feet away but because you have a different ISP they could choose to route it a different way and get much greater or better delay.
I’ll give an example.
I’m located in the UK and when FF14 2.0 started their Europe servers were in Canada. (SE in the West is based in Montreal).
I’d get a fairly good 100ms, and it goes through New York.
There were some people in the UK who had a different ISP and they would get routed though a company called Level3. they’d get worse latency, even USA customers routed by level3 would get higher pings than me, much further away.
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Can’t argue with science
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