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I ran a test to see my ping to various locations in south east asia(because I am unsure of where the servers are going to be installed), then compared it to my ping to America, and surprisingly
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Malaysia
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Philippines
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Boston, where the NA servers are located
So basically, the one reason that blizzard had to justify segregating us onto this non-english speaking server was the better latency, which turns out to be exactly the opposite, you will end up with a better community and better ping if you play on the US servers.
The reason for the pings being ~25% higher when the location is 3x closer is apparently any internet traffic from Australia to Asia first has to go all the way to America and back because there is no direct internet connection.
So I advise you, change your battle.net account address to somewhere in America if you want to get the most out of SC2.
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You need to test Singapore. IAH SEA is there. Hellgate SEA servers were there. It's easily assumed that Bnet SEA will be there.
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I'm playing on EU from Shanghai and my ping is better then on the korean server...
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There's no Singapore server on pingtest.net, but Kuala Lumpur is pretty darn close.
Edit: I pinged SingNet (major internet service provided in Singapore) and had 341ms average ping.
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See this is going to screw up the Australian community soo bad.
Half the Australians will register for the US server, then the other half will be left on the crappy servers. Whats the chances that blizzard will let people change server? They'll tell you to rebuy the game.
The community will be split and half the people will be stuck on a server they don't wish to be on 
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Kuala Lumpur is a bad server to test on, their internet service provider streamyx is crap.
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Blizzard Entertainment into Activision Blizzard (where did Entertainment go?)
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On June 13 2010 10:58 schiznak wrote:I ran a test to see my ping to various locations in south east asia(because I am unsure of where the servers are going to be installed), then compared it to my ping to America, and surprisingly Malaysia Philippines Boston, where the NA servers are located So basically, the one reason that blizzard had to justify segregating us onto this non-english speaking server was the better latency, which turns out to be exactly the opposite, you will end up with a better community and better ping if you play on the US servers. The reason for the pings being ~25% higher when the location is 3x closer is apparently any internet traffic from Australia to Asia first has to go all the way to America and back because there is no direct internet connection. So I advise you, change your battle.net account address to somewhere in America if you want to get the most out of SC2.
What does the jitter mean? Your jitter is certainly higher in the US.
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On June 13 2010 11:09 Fen wrote:See this is going to screw up the Australian community soo bad. Half the Australians will register for the US server, then the other half will be left on the crappy servers. Whats the chances that blizzard will let people change server? They'll tell you to rebuy the game. The community will be split and half the people will be stuck on a server they don't wish to be on
My secret hope is that blizzard realizes that there's no reason for Australians to be on the SEasia servers and moves us all to NA servers.
Or, better yet, allows free movement between all servers for anyone(a man can dream)
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so we can change our address to america and go onto those servers? will most ppl do this? what happens to aus competitions?
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On June 13 2010 11:13 ccdnl wrote:Show nested quote +On June 13 2010 10:58 schiznak wrote:I ran a test to see my ping to various locations in south east asia(because I am unsure of where the servers are going to be installed), then compared it to my ping to America, and surprisingly Malaysia Philippines Boston, where the NA servers are located So basically, the one reason that blizzard had to justify segregating us onto this non-english speaking server was the better latency, which turns out to be exactly the opposite, you will end up with a better community and better ping if you play on the US servers. The reason for the pings being ~25% higher when the location is 3x closer is apparently any internet traffic from Australia to Asia first has to go all the way to America and back because there is no direct internet connection. So I advise you, change your battle.net account address to somewhere in America if you want to get the most out of SC2. What does the jitter mean? Your jitter is certainly higher in the US.
Jitter is basically the difference between the lowest ping and the highest ping, but tyCe tested and he had no jitter, it might just be something specific to my internet at the moment.
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Ping statistics for 203.116.178.1:
Packets: Sent = 100, Received = 100, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 218ms, Maximum = 222ms, Average = 219ms
That's using an ADSL1 connection from regional Victoria to Singapore (via Hong Kong according to tracert),
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On June 13 2010 11:16 Reignyo wrote:
so we can change our address to america and go onto those servers? will most ppl do this? what happens to aus competitions?
Yeah apparently that is all it takes
I hope most people will do this
they will be hosted on the NA servers *fingers crossed*
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On June 13 2010 11:21 Depops wrote:
Ping statistics for 203.116.178.1:
Packets: Sent = 100, Received = 100, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 218ms, Maximum = 222ms, Average = 219ms
That's using an ADSL1 connection from regional Victoria to Singapore (via Hong Kong according to tracert),
What provider do you use?
I got a 360ms average ping to that IP.
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Pretty clear results, imo. Did the last just to show what I get within my own country. America's got a much lower ping than SEA.
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On June 13 2010 11:26 tyCe wrote:
What provider do you use? Internode.
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I'm in Denmark, but considering the difference in Distance i'd say that the routing around that area is the issue and not the location and distance, it's very difficult to tell these things and ultimately you won't know until you try it out at release :o
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blizzard's SEA servers should be in singapore since they've already reported that their SEA region office is opening in Singapore soon. Try to ping singapore instead, either singnet or starhub for better comparison.
btw, according to what i read from singaporean gaming forums, we do have quite a handful of people buying the US version so i guess that SEA servers will be very empty when sc2 goes live.
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You get higher pings to Singapore and Malaysia because you get routed through USA. Whatever or not you will get routed through USA depends on your ISP and also on the destination address. So to a given network in Singapore/Malaysia your ISP may route you through the USA but to other networks you may use the more direct routing. From the AUS ISPs i know that Optus has direct routing to Singapore and the latency from Sydney to Singapore is 100ms, so if the Blizzard server is there and you have direct routing you will have lower latency then on the USA server.
If you want to know to know whatever or not you will get routed through the USA you must find out the IP of the server and do a trace.
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Pretty sure pingtest don't use the same servers as Blizzard, so what does this test proves?
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