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Dickbutt
Korea (North)129 Posts
I tried the BattlePing demo thing, and while I think it will help people that have routing issues on their ISP's end, it added about 20ms ping for me. Most of those are just shams anyway, but I figured I'd give it a shot. I also opened all the recommended ports for SC2. It didn't change anything, but menus don't take seven years to load anymore which is nice. | ||
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Dumbledore
Sweden725 Posts
Are you serious? Press CTRL + alt + f in game.. Or maybe it was ctrl shift f.. Cant remember exactly | ||
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Dickbutt
Korea (North)129 Posts
On October 24 2015 12:50 Dumbledore wrote: "and there wasn't even a way to view your actual ping until recently." Are you serious? Press CTRL + alt + f in game.. Or maybe it was ctrl shift f.. Cant remember exactly Yeah, this didn't exist until LotV beta came out, and it wasn't in HotS until Patch 3.0 | ||
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Meatex
Australia285 Posts
Also you've been able to see ping since HotS beta by hover mouse icon over the options button or something in top left of screen in game unless you turned them off | ||
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arb
Noobville17921 Posts
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jalstar
United States8198 Posts
On October 24 2015 13:19 arb wrote: get better internet /thread internet speed and ping are two different things, no? | ||
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icydergosu
528 Posts
Fiber to the Home(FTTH) > Cable > DSL > LTE > HSPA The other option is to try to find better routing to the battle.net servers. You could run tcpdump on your router to capture the traffic so you can see with which servers you are exchanging traffic while playing. Afterwards you could look into the different Virtual Machine(VM) providers in your country to determine which one, if any, could offer a latency improvement. Most VM-Providers nowadays offer a looking glass that will allow you to run pings/traceroutes to any destination you like - this will enable you to see if there are any latency gains to be had before you have to pay a thing. After you have found a provider you would need to setup a VPN so you could route traffic over it. I highly recommend OpenVPN over UDP. | ||
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jimminy_kriket
Canada5502 Posts
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ETisME
12390 Posts
On October 24 2015 12:51 Dickbutt wrote: Yeah, this didn't exist until LotV beta came out, and it wasn't in HotS until Patch 3.0 ? Hasn't it always been in sc2 and if you hold it long enough, you even get the creepy child face | ||
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ThePastor
New Zealand380 Posts
On October 24 2015 14:46 icydergosu wrote: Your best option is to move to a technology that offers a lower latency. Fiber to the Home(FTTH) > Cable > DSL > LTE > HSPA The other option is to try to find better routing to the battle.net servers. You could run tcpdump on your router to capture the traffic so you can see with which servers you are exchanging traffic while playing. Afterwards you could look into the different Virtual Machine(VM) providers in your country to determine which one, if any, could offer a latency improvement. Most VM-Providers nowadays offer a looking glass that will allow you to run pings/traceroutes to any destination you like - this will enable you to see if there are any latency gains to be had before you have to pay a thing. After you have found a provider you would need to setup a VPN so you could route traffic over it. I highly recommend OpenVPN over UDP. I was hoping that OpenVPN lets you connect to South Korea but it appears it doesn't, am I missing something? | ||
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Dumbledore
Sweden725 Posts
On October 24 2015 13:29 jalstar wrote: internet speed and ping are two different things, no? Are you saying an internet connection leveraging less latency isn't better internet?....... | ||
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Ej_
47656 Posts
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nanaoei
3358 Posts
the data center is in some city within the region that the server is supposed to support and in some cases it's across the border into another country. routing is going to be weird for certain ISPs and it's an avoidable thing. it's nothing magical to fix and either you need to take the initiative to ask your ISP to route differently, or take the suggestion in this thread to use a VPN or other related service to re-route your traffic for you. some people use WTFast (much like battleping) for other games and I don't see why it couldn't be used for sc2 as well. I have friends who play from Hawaii and just have to bare with pings higher than 150 all the time. that's literally as low as they can get without spending a major amount of money to make a small difference. | ||
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Dickbutt
Korea (North)129 Posts
Also to nanaoei, the only positive review for WTFast has this attached: http://i.imgur.com/Zia7Mkf.png | ||
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Dickbutt
Korea (North)129 Posts
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Ansibled
United Kingdom9872 Posts
On October 24 2015 17:55 Dickbutt wrote: I guess I'll just have to deal with KR to EU ping, rip. I know hoping for playable ping is pretty silly, but it would be nice to reduce it a little. Also to nanaoei, the only positive review for WTFast has this attached: http://i.imgur.com/Zia7Mkf.png WTFast does help if you're playing on servers located quite far from you in my experience. | ||
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jalstar
United States8198 Posts
On October 24 2015 16:31 Dumbledore wrote: Are you saying an internet connection leveraging less latency isn't better internet?....... i've never seen "latency leveraging" options on any isp website, just download/upload speed which is different. also wireless vs wired, short cable vs long cable, those things will affect ping by 1-2 ms | ||
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Dickbutt
Korea (North)129 Posts
On October 25 2015 03:31 jalstar wrote: i've never seen "latency leveraging" options on any isp website, just download/upload speed which is different. also wireless vs wired, short cable vs long cable, those things will affect ping by 1-2 ms Wireless is a different story, but cable length has next to nothing to do with ping. Unless your cable is unrealistically long, it won't change anything. | ||
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atuor
United States82 Posts
Restart modem/router/computer and perform speedtest/pathping (see below) to get baseline results.. then: -Make sure you are hardwired connected -Open task manager and ensure CPU+Memory utilization is low (too many applications open can cause response times to increase) Upgrade/reduce memory impacting software - msconfig.exe uncheck everything in startup -Ensure CPU/RAM/GPU temperatures are low (overheating can cause your computer to slow down, similar to a cellphone that acts funny when really hot) -Ensure firmware of router is up to date and not buggy (or just reboot often) -Ensure no other network utilization is causing the latency (QoS is supported on many home routers and can help prioritize gaming traffic) http://www.pcworld.com/article/2689995/quality-of-service-explained-how-routers-with-strong-qos-make-better-home-networks.html -Run pathping.exe command to IP address of the server you are have latency issues with The output from pathping can identify a routing issue your ISP may be able to solve https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/running-a-traceroute-and-pathping | ||
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