I am currently living in Australia, Sydney and am planning to buy a korean sc2. This means that i would be abled to play in the korean server. However, I have heard of lag issues of players trying to play in the korean server from other countries, but they weren't from Aus. My internet is ADSL 2 and the internet company is TPG, 200gb monthly usage quota with a shaping speed of 1Mbps/1Mbps and i use wireless. So if i were to play sc2 in korean server in aus with my internet, would there be lag? If so, how bad would the lag be?

Legat0

United States318 Posts

November 21 2010 10:55 GMT

I honestly think it's going to vary from person to person. I play on the Korean servers from Minnesota with barely any lag at all.

bobbingmatt

Australia224 Posts

November 21 2010 10:56 GMT

I have heard getting a Korean sc2 isn't as easy as it sounds. I'm not sure about lag but it works pretty well on US servers from here.

haduken

Australia8267 Posts

November 21 2010 11:18 GMT

Don't you need a Korean security ID to play?

There were a few Aussie Korean guys who posted here that they played on Korean servers. I can't imagine the lag would be worse than SEA.

zoOv

Australia269 Posts

November 21 2010 11:18 GMT

I know GLaDe and Pinder both from Australia have korean accounts so I guess it should be fine.

IrT4nkz

229 Posts

November 21 2010 12:28 GMT

You need to have a Korean ID No. to register (given to if you live in Korea). Otherwise you won't be able to buy a copy / use it

Scroobius

Australia9 Posts

November 21 2010 12:46 GMT

South Korea is at least geographically closer to Australia than the US, with a direct optical connection to Japan there shouldn't be too much additional lag.

ace246

Australia360 Posts

November 23 2010 10:59 GMT

I forgot to mention but i use the NETGEAR WG111v2 54Mbps Wireless USB 2.0 Adapter #3. However, when i check my wireless network connection status, the speed is usually drops lower than 54Mbps, at around 5.5Mbps~32Mbps randomly changing every few seconds and i don't think thats normal and i hardly ever see it up on 54Mbps these days.

Just so you know, when i say 54Mbps and 5.5Mbps~32Mbps, i am refering to the speed indicated in the wireless network connection status, which is not the same as the internet speed. With my level of internet, i should be abled to play dota on battlenet easily, but i get kicked out sometimes (the game host bot usually kicks people with bad ping).

I had a thought that maybe there was a problem with the wireless usb adapter or that this was just natural and that i'm just overreacting. And would i be abled to play in the korean server for sc2 under these circumstances?

Legionnaire

Australia4514 Posts

November 23 2010 11:21 GMT

From Australia for me, Korean server latency is fine. Not quite as good as NA but better than SEA.

Except at peak hours on friday & weekends. Then it can become quite laggy.

Dload a korean version then gimme a PM, i'll let you log onto my account and try it out for a day.

Silentness

United States2821 Posts

November 23 2010 12:01 GMT

#10

I know playing from Korea to US is fine. I don't see how playing from Australia to Korea should be that bad latency wise.

thehitman

1105 Posts

November 23 2010 18:30 GMT

#11

Depends. Aus is placed on the asia server so theoretically shouldn't lag too much, except in some few random cases.

Though some connections are routed through the USA and depending on your ISP it may actually lag more, than say the US server, but you aussies have the ability to choose regions between asia and NA, so you can always switch regions!

scTrigger

Australia23 Posts

August 06 2011 10:39 GMT

#12

so how do we get on to the korean server? can we get a security id? or is it impossible to get it unless u live in korea?

aScle

Australia375 Posts

August 06 2011 10:44 GMT

#13

On August 06 2011 19:39 RT_trigger wrote:
so how do we get on to the korean server? can we get a security id? or is it impossible to get it unless u live in korea?

You can get a taiwanese account following these instructions (http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=243084), which is basically the same as a kr account now since their ladders have merged.

SecondChance

Australia603 Posts

August 06 2011 11:48 GMT

#14

You can test the latency using CMD. Personally I have found that the Korean server is 50 ms (200ms ping time) faster than to the US (250 ms).

Open up CMD (command prompt)

type without the inverted commmas "tracert kr.logon.battle.net"

The last 3 packets sent are going to be fairly indicative of your latency whilst playing on the KR server.

chuGGy0r

Germany14 Posts

August 06 2011 12:12 GMT

#15

korea and taiwan are now on the same part.

and to get a taiwan account is not so difficult.

but for me (from eu) the lag is to hart to play from eu to taiwan/korea , sea is just ok !

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