Dat picture xD
From what i've heard the best place to be when wanting to play another server is NA, because they have good connection/ms playing on Eu server and on Kr server :/ as people posted in this thread there are a couple of koreans playing on eu and streaming ZenexYong comes to mind.

Nyast

Belgium554 Posts

November 22 2011 13:11 GMT

#22

Belgium to Seoul, just did the test: around 600 ms.

RuzaSK

Slovakia117 Posts

November 22 2011 14:58 GMT

#23

been wondering myself if it's worth getting a kr acc from eu

Did my test I got between 330 - 350 ms

MenSol[ZerO]

Canada1134 Posts

November 22 2011 15:04 GMT

#24

my ping to korea was 450 and my ping to eu was 130

east coast

Plexa

Aotearoa39261 Posts

November 22 2011 15:07 GMT

#25

I live in NZ, literally on the opposite side of the world to Spain, and I can play on EU. There is noticeable delay somewhere in the region of bnet 1 low latency (not chaos launcher low). It's not easy to play under those conditions but you can get used to it, however you won't be able to do super precise builds that require accuracy and quick reflexes.

Drake

Germany6146 Posts

November 22 2011 15:09 GMT

#26

On November 22 2011 16:30 pZu wrote:
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?

500 from germany as well... there is just no highspeed cable between middle europe and korea, there are some from us to kor etc etc but you need to take a longer way from eu to kr cause of no direct line

Deathfate

Spain555 Posts

November 22 2011 15:13 GMT

#27

i got 558 from spain so yeah it isnt that rare i guess...

Myrkul

Croatia132 Posts

November 22 2011 15:17 GMT

#28

I got 354 from Croatia. 500+ from Germany Belgium France and Spain????? Wtf

brrrtmn

Russian Federation154 Posts

November 22 2011 15:24 GMT

#29

I think, much more fair, it's make traceroute to Korean server
it's mine

Трассировка маршрута к kr.battle.net [121.254.166.38]
с максимальным числом прыжков 30:

1 <1 мс <1 мс <1 мс 217.195.208.82
2 <1 мс <1 мс <1 мс 217.195.211.81
3 <1 мс <1 мс <1 мс 194.186.39.93
4 72 ms 72 ms 72 ms 64.209.110.97
5 98 ms 98 ms 97 ms ae8.scr3.FRA4.gblx.net [67.16.145.237]
6 219 ms 219 ms 218 ms po5-40G.ar5.LAX2.gblx.net [67.16.134.94]
7 218 ms 218 ms 218 ms ASIA-NETCOM-ASIA-PACIFIC-LTD.TenGigabitEthernet1
-2.ar5.LAX2.gblx.net [64.215.81.146]
8 341 ms 341 ms 341 ms po4-0-0.cr2.nrt1.asianetcom.net [202.147.0.37]
9 * * * Превышен интервал ожидания для запроса.
10 382 ms 380 ms 376 ms LGT-0001.gw3.sel2.asianetcom.net [202.147.9.18]

11 380 ms 385 ms 375 ms 1.208.104.245
12 392 ms 393 ms 395 ms 211.174.48.62
13 371 ms 368 ms 377 ms 211.234.120.10
14 * * * Превышен интервал ожидания для запроса.
15 * * * Превышен интервал ожидания для запроса.

JohnMatrix

France1358 Posts

November 22 2011 15:30 GMT

#30

from france:

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scruffeh

England196 Posts

November 22 2011 15:44 GMT

#31

I just did a test at work (university Janet, i.e <10 pings to UK) - my ping to Korea is over 400ms. It does seem like the infrastructure is poor between here and Korea.

Warpath

Canada1242 Posts

November 22 2011 15:50 GMT

#32

Generally the EU<->KR ping is known to be of the worst of all the cross-server pings, whereas playing from NA<->KR is barely noticeable after a while.

y0su

Finland7871 Posts

November 22 2011 15:57 GMT

#33

wasn't this discussed in depth around TSL3?

NecrosTheSecond

Denmark116 Posts

November 22 2011 17:24 GMT

#34

It's pretty horrible, but playable up to like diamond where they start to get good as well. Mirror matches are crap to deal with.
Sources: Played like 10 games there myself.

redeux

United States148 Posts

November 22 2011 20:16 GMT

#35

open command prompt

try:
tracert eu.battle.net
tracert sea.battle.net
tracert kr.logon.battle.net

this gives actual pings to the servers, not just a "korea" ping from speedtest.

compare and see. Generally you'll want to be no more than 300ms though...I play on EU from NA with 158 and which is a noticeable difference when I ping 12ms on NA server but you get used to it after a while.

TT1

Canada10012 Posts

November 22 2011 20:20 GMT

#36

lol 249ms over here (montreal to korea)
but i remember being able to play on korea without having any lag issues just a few months after the game was released
(around december-january).. then blizz patched something and the server became unplayable

GWBuffalo

United States234 Posts

November 23 2011 00:16 GMT

#37

On November 23 2011 05:16 redeux wrote:
open command prompt

try:
tracert eu.battle.net
tracert sea.battle.net
tracert kr.logon.battle.net

this gives actual pings to the servers, not just a "korea" ping from speedtest.

compare and see. Generally you'll want to be no more than 300ms though...I play on EU from NA with 158 and which is a noticeable difference when I ping 12ms on NA server but you get used to it after a while.

Are you sure this should work? It seems all the battle.net servers block ping requests..... even us.battle.net.

dartoo

India2889 Posts

November 23 2011 00:20 GMT

#38

^^ It gets blocked out after a point, but it gives you a better picture of what really happens when you play the game, because it's a ping to the server you'll be playing on and not a general "korea" server.

Eee

Sweden2712 Posts

November 23 2011 00:26 GMT

#39

On November 22 2011 17:31 StrinterN wrote:
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

Is it playable for you?

ShinKaMi

Finland4 Posts

November 23 2011 00:33 GMT

#40

On November 23 2011 00:24 brrrtmn wrote:
I think, much more fair, it's make traceroute to Korean server
it's mine

Show nested quote +

This traceroute shows the simple reason why a ping from europe to korea is so big.
The packets go from Russia to Frankfurt (line 5), Los Angeles (6 and 7), Narita-Tokyo (I guess, line 8) and Seoul (line 10).
I believe the reason the routing goes this way is because there is no big backbone going through the middle east or russia to china/far east.