Hi,

I used to play on EU server but I'now living in Korea for four month.
I tried to play on EU server but there is so much delay, is it viable to play on NA server from Korea ?
I don't have korean account yet and in case I don't get one I would like to know if it's possible !

Thank you

Arcanne

United States1519 Posts

August 28 2011 11:45 GMT

Latency is playable... maybe 0.5 second delay.

ki11z0ne

United States427 Posts

August 28 2011 11:46 GMT

i think EU to NA should be fine vise versa but to korea you might be SOL =p lol

MERLIN.

Canada546 Posts

August 28 2011 11:47 GMT

On August 28 2011 20:45 Arcanne wrote:
Latency is playable... maybe 0.5 second delay.

Better to live in NA and play in korea then go from Korea to NA, but it is definatly playable. Make sure you have good down/up before bothering though...

zeehar

Korea (South)3804 Posts

August 28 2011 11:51 GMT

depending on your connection and time of day there will be a delay of .5 to almost 1 second. definitely playable most of the time, but ive given up trying to ladder at master level.

demonik187

United States575 Posts

August 28 2011 11:51 GMT

In regards to this, and I don't mean to derail or take away from your thread, but would I have to buy another game client to play on the Korea server? I've been thinking of laddering there. Any information on the subject would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

Sein

United States1811 Posts

August 28 2011 14:16 GMT

On August 28 2011 20:51 zeehar wrote:
depending on your connection and time of day there will be a delay of .5 to almost 1 second. definitely playable most of the time, but ive given up trying to ladder at master level.

0.5 to 1 second sounds quite awful. It must be very frustrating.

KingVietKong

United States170 Posts

August 28 2011 14:17 GMT

It's not the worst. You'll miss the occasional clinch forcefield, and it's really hard to do some queu actions cleanly, but I never lost a game because of the latency.

Sein

United States1811 Posts

August 28 2011 14:18 GMT

On August 28 2011 20:51 demonik187 wrote:
In regards to this, and I don't mean to derail or take away from your thread, but would I have to buy another game client to play on the Korea server? I've been thinking of laddering there. Any information on the subject would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

You do, and I believe you need a Korean SSN to have an account there, so I don't think you can directly buy a copy yourself. I'm sure there are Koreans selling their accounts though or if you have a friend there, just ask if you can use his SSN.

andeh

United States904 Posts

August 28 2011 14:19 GMT

#10

You can buy a taiwanese account, and play on the tw/kr server. You don't to use any personal number for that.

how I did it: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=256777

arbitrageur

Australia1202 Posts

August 28 2011 14:19 GMT

#11

"tracert us.battle.net" in cmd

there's your ping.

esReveR

United States567 Posts

August 28 2011 14:19 GMT

#12

The latency isn't bad from Korea to NA, I played on it for a year. You'll be fine.

zoltanium

Australia171 Posts

August 28 2011 14:20 GMT

#13

I play from western australia and get about 400ms or so. Its fairly playable, although big battles can be quite hard (HT vs ghost or infestor etcetc).

TheKwas

Iceland372 Posts

August 28 2011 14:25 GMT

#14

I play on NA from Korea all the time. The lag is hardly noticeable (better than SC1 by a mile, and generally better than playing WC3 with observers).

However, you have to get your hands on an NA client. Most Korean stores and PCbangs will only use Korean clients.

MartynX

United Kingdom122 Posts

August 28 2011 14:55 GMT

#15

It's not that bad, even when I play on EU from inside the EU on a 20 meg connection I get 0.1-0.2 second delay. A lot of the Koreans have NA accounts that they play in some cups (such as the geforce one) and some occationaly ladder. I doubt they would if there was too much of a delay as they would basically be wasting their time otherwise.

Not_That

287 Posts

August 28 2011 15:00 GMT

#16

On August 28 2011 23:19 arbitrageur wrote:
"tracert us.battle.net" in cmd

there's your ping.

That's not accurate at all. For one, Blizzard blocks pings to their servers so you will only trace so far. Also, Starcraft 2 adds a delay in games due to it's networking, so whatever your actual ping is to us.battle.net for example, your in game latency will be higher.

As an example I have around 110ms latency to European servers, but my actual in game latency is 300-330ms. You can measure actual latency by recording your screen and counting frames between order issued and order performed, but of course you need to have already own an account to do this. Your only other option is to get an answer from someone who lives in Korea and plays on US server.

Baobab

Korea (South)153 Posts

August 28 2011 15:14 GMT

#17

I'm living in Korea now, and my first few months here I played on the NA server. Latency was proably about 500ms, maybe a little less - didn't really notice it that much tbh. That being said, when I got a Korean account and started playing PC bangs, I completely stopped playing on NA server because the latency was so annoying. So, when I didn't know any better, it was fine, but once I experienced 0-50ms... O.o

Silentness

United States2821 Posts

August 28 2011 15:19 GMT

#18

Playing on NA server from Korea isn't that bad. The latency is a hell of a lot better than playing Brood War from Korea.

My God I remember so many BW games I felt like I was playing underwater or something. SC2 I barely notice it.