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BriTadeb
Profile Joined June 2011
France23 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-08-28 11:42:38
August 28 2011 11:42 GMT
#1
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
Profile Joined August 2010
United States1519 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-08-28 11:46:06
August 28 2011 11:45 GMT
#2
Latency is playable... maybe 0.5 second delay.
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ki11z0ne
Profile Joined January 2011
United States427 Posts
August 28 2011 11:46 GMT
#3
i think EU to NA should be fine vise versa but to korea you might be SOL =p lol
SC > halo
MERLIN.
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Canada546 Posts
August 28 2011 11:47 GMT
#4
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...
"A bullet to the head will solve your problems."
zeehar
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Korea (South)3804 Posts
August 28 2011 11:51 GMT
#5
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.
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demonik187
Profile Joined August 2010
United States575 Posts
August 28 2011 11:51 GMT
#6
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!
We march to victory!
Sein
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States1811 Posts
August 28 2011 14:16 GMT
#7
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
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States170 Posts
August 28 2011 14:17 GMT
#8
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
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States1811 Posts
August 28 2011 14:18 GMT
#9
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
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States904 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-08-28 14:19:44
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
Profile Joined December 2010
Australia1202 Posts
August 28 2011 14:19 GMT
#11
"tracert us.battle.net" in cmd

there's your ping.
esReveR
Profile Joined February 2010
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.
Skill is relative.
zoltanium
Profile Joined April 2010
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).
mate
TheKwas
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
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
Profile Joined May 2011
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
Profile Joined April 2011
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
Profile Joined October 2010
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
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Silentness
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
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.
GL HF... YOLO..lololollol.
Dominico
Profile Joined April 2011
Canada678 Posts
August 28 2011 15:25 GMT
#19
the lag really wasn't that bad for me, it didn't change my play at all.
HeavOnEarth
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States7087 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-08-28 15:35:45
August 28 2011 15:27 GMT
#20
wtf play from korea to korea? XD
if u need help getting an acc pm me
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