connection to Asian servers?

On November 08 2010 11:20 WhoDoYouThink wrote:
@Flaunt: He said that Chinese friends use it, meaning they use it in China, not here.

@MasterAsia: I would imagine they have a program (legal) for the NA servers somewhere, but it'd be tough to find. Think you can get the Chinese program legally?

Also, where have you been in tournaments? You seemed like a huge zerg player before, but haven't seen you in awhile

On November 08 2010 11:32 StUfF wrote:
They probably use some kind of tunneling software/service.

Basically tunnels your connection through a specific path - streamlining your connection via several network methods (QoS, optimal nodes etc.)

There are alot of services from China -> US, Aus -> US - because stuff like WoW and SC2 where they are forced to play on US servers - but I doubt there are any going from US -> China/Taiwan because of the lack of demand. e.g. Lowerping/wowtunnels

If you had the technical expertise and the resources you could probably set up your own personal service though.

On November 08 2010 11:34 lichter wrote:
When I play on the NA server (I will get my revenge against you one day :p), I don't have any major latency issues (aside from my internet just sucking).

Is your game choppy or are your actions delayed? The former is because of an unstable connection, the latter is because of a slow connection.

On November 08 2010 11:05 MasterAsia wrote:
My Chinese friends use one kind of softwares to reduce the latency so that they can play on KR or NA server without much problem. I want to know whether we have similar softwares in NA.

Thanks.

On November 08 2010 13:06 TypeFake wrote:


Wow. Someone tell me more about this. This sounds like it's revolutionary. Reducing latency? O_O

On November 08 2010 13:13 Corwin wrote:

I can't tell if your being sarcastic, but it's certainly possible on a technical level. Consider this simplistic example. Clearly there is more than one way to route internet traffic from North America to Korea. Thus it stands to reason that you can reduce the latency of your connection by picking the faster one. There are also some things you can do on the protocol level to make your connection faster. Services like LowerPing package all of this for you.

On November 08 2010 13:06 TypeFake wrote:


Wow. Someone tell me more about this. This sounds like it's revolutionary. Reducing latency? O_O

On November 08 2010 15:29 Wolf wrote:
Hey MasterAsia:

Probably want to test your ping to those locations; it might be a problem with your ISP. I ladder regularly on the Taiwan server (it's my main server for laddering) and I don't have any lag problems whatsoever. I think you live at Georgia Tech, so you're getting some of the best Internet in the world, but maybe some of your packets aren't going through ? It's University Internet which is always questionable.

I also don't have any lag on the Korean server either.

Here's my results on speedtest.net / pingtest.net:


(taken while streaming, actually)


(also taken while streaming)

Post your results! Maybe we'll find the problem here.

On November 08 2010 15:54 Genome852 wrote:
Back when I lived in China and played WoW (on the Taiwanese servers, since WotLK was delayed forever), almost all of the Chinese players bought subscriptions to private proxy servers to get better latency, otherwise the game would be unplayable due to China - Taiwan connectivity.

I'm sure your friends are using something similar. Most of them need to be paid for though.