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Is it doable to from on sea/kr server from eu?

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StrinterN
Profile Joined April 2010
Denmark531 Posts
November 22 2011 07:06 GMT
#1
I did some searching on both Google and on Teamliquid, but I could not find a answer anywhere. It is quite common that Korean players stream playing on the North American server and NA players streaming playing on the Kr server frequently with little to no lag/delay.

But is it at all possible to play on the Korean server from Denmark in Europe or would it lag to much? So if anyone have any experience playing from any country in Europe on the Kr server please comment about how the experience is/was for you!


Thanks :D
Twitter: @Strintern Stream: http://www.twitch.tv/strintern
Carush
Profile Joined June 2011
United States356 Posts
November 22 2011 07:11 GMT
#2
it just depends

go to battlenet
change the language to korean or taiwanese
make an account on that language
download the game
play the free mode and find out yourself
pycho
Profile Joined January 2011
Paraguay372 Posts
November 22 2011 07:11 GMT
#3
pingtest.net click on korea, should give you an estimate of how much delay you are going to have in MS.
StrinterN
Profile Joined April 2010
Denmark531 Posts
November 22 2011 07:12 GMT
#4
On November 22 2011 16:11 Carush wrote:
it just depends

go to battlenet
change the language to korean or taiwanese
make an account on that language
download the game
play the free mode and find out yourself


Isnt the free mode single player only?
Twitter: @Strintern Stream: http://www.twitch.tv/strintern
Carush
Profile Joined June 2011
United States356 Posts
November 22 2011 07:15 GMT
#5
On November 22 2011 16:12 StrinterN wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 22 2011 16:11 Carush wrote:
it just depends

go to battlenet
change the language to korean or taiwanese
make an account on that language
download the game
play the free mode and find out yourself


Isnt the free mode single player only?

well, you can make multiplayer games on a few maps but you'd have to find someone to play with you
doesn't really matter tho after a few seconds of playing you'll be able to decide if you can deal with the latency
if you can deal with it then good for you i did 3 days of playing 8+ hours on korean server when i got back to na i was demolishing its super good practice
ZenithM
Profile Joined February 2011
France15952 Posts
November 22 2011 07:22 GMT
#6
Hi,

I'm from France and I have a Taiwanese account. I wouldn't recommend it, my ping is always over 500 ms, it really affects your gameplay. But if you can get used to it, I'm guessing it's fine. You basically have to take that into account when you pick your builds because for me (I'm P), I can't really rely on precise and timed forcefields for example, so I must be more safe than that, or pick even more A-movish strats than usual (:D), like zealot-archon.
Marine vs banelings must be hard as hell too, and ZvZ baneling battles must be a real nightmare. If you're used to play quite fast, it's really slowing you down: for example warp ins have a 500 ms delay, which you must wait to be able to add units to your control groups. You won't have the most crisp and sharp execution you can have, that's for sure.

I hope it helped. Have a good day.
Carush
Profile Joined June 2011
United States356 Posts
November 22 2011 07:23 GMT
#7
On November 22 2011 16:22 ZenithM wrote:
Hi,

I'm from France and I have a Taiwanese account. I wouldn't recommend it, my ping is always over 500 ms, it really affects your gameplay. But if you can get used to it, I'm guessing it's fine. You basically have to take that into account when you pick your builds because for me (I'm P), I can't really rely on precise and timed forcefields for example, so I must be more safe than that, or pick even more A-movish strats than usual (:D), like zealot-archon.
Marine vs banelings must be hard as hell too, and ZvZ baneling battles must be a real nightmare. If you're used to play quite fast, it's really slowing you down: for example warp ins have a 500 ms delay, which you must wait to be able to add units to your control groups. You won't have the most crisp and sharp execution you can have, that's for sure.

I hope it helped. Have a good day.

500MS???
dude that's horrific
i thought with 150ish i had it rough
damn
ZenithM
Profile Joined February 2011
France15952 Posts
November 22 2011 07:27 GMT
#8
On November 22 2011 16:23 Carush wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 22 2011 16:22 ZenithM wrote:
Hi,

I'm from France and I have a Taiwanese account. I wouldn't recommend it, my ping is always over 500 ms, it really affects your gameplay. But if you can get used to it, I'm guessing it's fine. You basically have to take that into account when you pick your builds because for me (I'm P), I can't really rely on precise and timed forcefields for example, so I must be more safe than that, or pick even more A-movish strats than usual (:D), like zealot-archon.
Marine vs banelings must be hard as hell too, and ZvZ baneling battles must be a real nightmare. If you're used to play quite fast, it's really slowing you down: for example warp ins have a 500 ms delay, which you must wait to be able to add units to your control groups. You won't have the most crisp and sharp execution you can have, that's for sure.

I hope it helped. Have a good day.

500MS???
dude that's horrific
i thought with 150ish i had it rough
damn


Yeah, EU to KR is much worse than NA to KR apparently. I didn't look into it enough before buying my account ;D.
Not like my connection is bad either, I have a 3 ms local ping (to french hubs).
pzu
Profile Joined June 2011
Sweden287 Posts
November 22 2011 07:30 GMT
#9
Wow, 500 from france is quite alot.
Anyone know what reasons why the ping when playing on US from EU is so much better, when the distance is about the same?
MVTaylor
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
United Kingdom2893 Posts
November 22 2011 07:31 GMT
#10
Out of interest what do most people get on that test...

I'm on a university connection and to the nearest one to me I get a 5ms ping, to seoul it's 337ms
@followMVT
Boblhead
Profile Joined August 2010
United States2577 Posts
November 22 2011 07:34 GMT
#11
On November 22 2011 16:06 StrinterN wrote:
I did some searching on both Google and on Teamliquid, but I could not find a answer anywhere. It is quite common that Korean players stream playing on the North American server and NA players streaming playing on the Kr server frequently with little to no lag/delay.

But is it at all possible to play on the Korean server from Denmark in Europe or would it lag to much? So if anyone have any experience playing from any country in Europe on the Kr server please comment about how the experience is/was for you!


Thanks :D


alot of koreans play in the EU playhem dailies. They stream, and win alot of them so i would assume its good.
Carush
Profile Joined June 2011
United States356 Posts
November 22 2011 07:35 GMT
#12
On November 22 2011 16:31 mvtaylor wrote:
Out of interest what do most people get on that test...

I'm on a university connection and to the nearest one to me I get a 5ms ping, to seoul it's 337ms

i have an ok connection from texas and i'm getting 201
pzu
Profile Joined June 2011
Sweden287 Posts
November 22 2011 07:39 GMT
#13
358 from Sweden.
pycho
Profile Joined January 2011
Paraguay372 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-11-22 07:41:48
November 22 2011 07:40 GMT
#14
On November 22 2011 16:34 Boblhead wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 22 2011 16:06 StrinterN wrote:
I did some searching on both Google and on Teamliquid, but I could not find a answer anywhere. It is quite common that Korean players stream playing on the North American server and NA players streaming playing on the Kr server frequently with little to no lag/delay.

But is it at all possible to play on the Korean server from Denmark in Europe or would it lag to much? So if anyone have any experience playing from any country in Europe on the Kr server please comment about how the experience is/was for you!


Thanks :D


alot of koreans play in the EU playhem dailies. They stream, and win alot of them so i would assume its good.


alot of koreans? its just artist(us) violet(us) and rainbow(kr) but hes code a so hes much better than the caliber of players in playhem dailies so even with 400ms ping he manages to win sometimes.

isnt kr>us better than kr>eu becouse if you look at the world map then the distance between eu and kr is covered mostly by land and many nations and the distance between us and kr is mostly ocean, so maybe less disturbance in the force.
HydraLF
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Hong Kong626 Posts
November 22 2011 07:42 GMT
#15
On November 22 2011 16:23 Carush wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 22 2011 16:22 ZenithM wrote:
Hi,

I'm from France and I have a Taiwanese account. I wouldn't recommend it, my ping is always over 500 ms, it really affects your gameplay. But if you can get used to it, I'm guessing it's fine. You basically have to take that into account when you pick your builds because for me (I'm P), I can't really rely on precise and timed forcefields for example, so I must be more safe than that, or pick even more A-movish strats than usual (:D), like zealot-archon.
Marine vs banelings must be hard as hell too, and ZvZ baneling battles must be a real nightmare. If you're used to play quite fast, it's really slowing you down: for example warp ins have a 500 ms delay, which you must wait to be able to add units to your control groups. You won't have the most crisp and sharp execution you can have, that's for sure.

I hope it helped. Have a good day.

500MS???
dude that's horrific
i thought with 150ish i had it rough
damn


What, 500ms? I get 280-330ms from Hong Kong to the EU server (which I think is located in Netherland or something).

Its definately noticable, something inbetween 0.5-1 second delay, its less noticeable the more you play, though I wouldn't recommend 1v1 too seriously, clutch forcefield is barely ok, when theres banelings rolling towards you it becomes quite messy since you won't have a lot of time to react.

I still play a lot of team games with some of my friends in EU, and occasionally 1v1 against lower MMR player (I improved quite a bit after moving to SEA).

The routing from SEA to Europe is awful compare with SEA<->California (~180ms) or EU<->US which is way more manageable.
Sure.
pzu
Profile Joined June 2011
Sweden287 Posts
November 22 2011 07:45 GMT
#16
On November 22 2011 16:40 pycho wrote:
isnt kr>us better than kr>eu becouse if you look at the world map then the distance between eu and kr is covered mostly by land and many nations and the distance between us and kr is mostly ocean, so maybe less disturbance in the force.


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But yeah, that sounds reasonable
Itsmedudeman
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States19229 Posts
November 22 2011 07:45 GMT
#17
Mmm, when I watched dragon's/rainbow's stream they said they refused to play on EU accounts because of the latency, and when they finally did they only played for a few hours cause the delay just made it not worth it.
SpectralFremen
Profile Joined January 2011
Australia386 Posts
November 22 2011 07:57 GMT
#18
Testing from my work:

Ping Brooklyn NY: 280ms, Distance: 11650miles
Ping Seul, Korea: 357ms, Distance: 4850miles.

Australia - Asia link is so friggin terrible.
"And so he spoke, and so he spoke, that lord of Castamere"
StrinterN
Profile Joined April 2010
Denmark531 Posts
November 22 2011 08:31 GMT
#19
I tried using this guide -> http://www.sc2sea.com/showthread.php?t=1893&tgm=8
And my ms is around 270-290 to the sea/kr server.

Also thanks for all the answers, even though there is a lot of different answers xD
Twitter: @Strintern Stream: http://www.twitch.tv/strintern
StrinterN
Profile Joined April 2010
Denmark531 Posts
November 22 2011 10:28 GMT
#20
On November 22 2011 16:22 ZenithM wrote:
Hi,

I'm from France and I have a Taiwanese account. I wouldn't recommend it, my ping is always over 500 ms, it really affects your gameplay. But if you can get used to it, I'm guessing it's fine. You basically have to take that into account when you pick your builds because for me (I'm P), I can't really rely on precise and timed forcefields for example, so I must be more safe than that, or pick even more A-movish strats than usual (:D), like zealot-archon.
Marine vs banelings must be hard as hell too, and ZvZ baneling battles must be a real nightmare. If you're used to play quite fast, it's really slowing you down: for example warp ins have a 500 ms delay, which you must wait to be able to add units to your control groups. You won't have the most crisp and sharp execution you can have, that's for sure.

I hope it helped. Have a good day.


Wth 500ms O_O
When i do speedtest i have around 280-300 and i think it would be too much, how can you play with that much delay :O
Twitter: @Strintern Stream: http://www.twitch.tv/strintern
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