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Reduce lag/spike from Europe to Korea

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AgentScholar
Profile Joined March 2016
United States39 Posts
July 21 2016 23:38 GMT
#1
I believe many programers want to train on Korea server, however the ping varies. This is simple question but I think many people want to know about it too, I decide to post it here.
So I've recruited European players to play NSL 2016, the server for non-Chinese NSL players is Korea. I've tried a variety of vpn services, but non of them has a great improvement. I've used many trial and gone through many refund in the past months. What is everyone's best solution?
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geokilla
Profile Joined May 2011
Canada8230 Posts
July 21 2016 23:54 GMT
#2
Move to Korea? I think that's the easy solution. I live in Toronto and sometimes I have to play games on the Western USA or Brazil server and the ping is awful. I think it's more of a distance issue than anything else.
Knatterking
Profile Joined April 2014
Germany405 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-07-22 01:26:53
July 22 2016 01:24 GMT
#3
Like geokilla said there is nothing you can really do other than to get your players to Korea. The latency is mainly caused by the time all the routers inbetween need to process the IP packets. I heavily doubt VPN services have better routing (i.e. find a path between the client and the server that's involving less nodes and is thus "faster"), so that's just going to make things worse.
WarreNSC2
Profile Joined April 2015
United States28 Posts
July 22 2016 01:40 GMT
#4
I dont know about to Korea, but from Midwest USA to Europe i got about 35% ping reduction using PingZapper. Shit works wonders for me. Went from 180 to 130~
TheWinks
Profile Joined July 2011
United States572 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-07-22 02:49:45
July 22 2016 02:47 GMT
#5
The connection between Europe and SE Asia looks something like this:
[image loading]

It's long and has a lot of stops along the way. Going from the United States to Korea has to cross the Pacific, which is very wide. It's better than the EU->Korea connections though. You might be able to keep shopping around for a VPN that has a better route, but chances are there isn't one.
REDBLUEGREEN
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Germany1903 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-07-22 13:08:22
July 22 2016 04:54 GMT
#6
On July 22 2016 11:47 TheWinks wrote:
The connection between Europe and SE Asia looks something like this:
[image loading]

It's long and has a lot of stops along the way. Going from the United States to Korea has to cross the Pacific, which is very wide. It's better than the EU->Korea connections though. You might be able to keep shopping around for a VPN that has a better route, but chances are there isn't one.

I used to play sometimes with two Russian guys from Vladivostok and Sakhalin and we had no lag, while with Koreans I usually have slight lag. I have no idea if it was luck or if traffic was routed overland through Russia and that's why it was faster. Vladivostok is really close to South Korea so maybe a VPN in Krasnoyarsk or something might help? (tbh I have no clue about VPNs but maybe it helps...)

Edit: I just did a test with a tracert to Vladivostok and Seoul. Vladivostok is 160 ping and routed over Russia, Seoul 300 ping routed over USA.
Uni1987
Profile Joined September 2010
Netherlands642 Posts
July 22 2016 05:14 GMT
#7
It's constricted by many connections and distance. Only moving closer will help.
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