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grolyat
Scotland47 Posts
I will be moving to NA soon but want to continue to play on the EU server. Through testing my ping from where I am now to the Brooklyn, NY server the ping rating was 97ms with 3ms jitter. Is this score/rating too high to play with? I realise the ping rating will probably change from there to here but I see it as a decent guideline. (note: I play at a low level so tiny levels of lag probably wont be game breaking but if the game will be unplayable, please let me know) Thanks! | ||
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HellGreen
Denmark1146 Posts
People play cross region everyday, so you won't be the only one - it's definitely possible. Though you should expect a different 'feel', most I know got used to it. 100 ms is not bad, people often play with worse - personally I'm at 200+ (SEA region to EU server). As you said, you won't know the real delay until you are there, but to get a feel for it, maybe you can borrow someone's NA account and try a few games. That should give you a feeling for it. | ||
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Maggost
Venezuela296 Posts
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Cyro
United Kingdom20326 Posts
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grolyat
Scotland47 Posts
As for the speed thing, I really don't play that quickly. I am bronze (though I think I am on the verge of promotion, then I guess all bronze players think that  ) and normally finish with about 40-50 APM average. I play Terran but my splitting is poor at best even playing in region so the fine micro aspects shouldn't be an issue. Thanks!  | ||
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Afterlifeil
Israel35 Posts
btw Maggost, you can see your latency, start > cmd > tracert us.battle.net, last hop before "request timed out" is your ping, mine is 227ms. | ||
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Filter
Canada620 Posts
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Meldrath
United States620 Posts
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Dunmer
United Kingdom568 Posts
![[image loading]](http://www.speedtest.net/result/2092048422.png) | ||
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kranten
Netherlands236 Posts
On July 31 2012 06:38 Dunmer wrote: When I play I notice the lag and I play to adjust for it. It's not that bad though or maybe I am just too used it. My ping is awful beyond belief, here is proof holy shit | ||
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Troxle
United States486 Posts
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Dunmer
United Kingdom568 Posts
The only time I can't play online is when someone/something is using the bandwitdth or when I have to patch  | ||
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Maggost
Venezuela296 Posts
On July 31 2012 05:40 justice` wrote: 100ms is playable, around 200ms is kinda unplayable. btw Maggost, you can see your latency, start > cmd > tracert us.battle.net, last hop before "request timed out" is your ping, mine is 227ms. 272ms here! 18 hops lol | ||
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Cyro
United Kingdom20326 Posts
On July 31 2012 06:21 Meldrath wrote: Obviously lower ping is better but it doesn't truly start effecting you until like 350 or so ping. A human can only respond to unexpected stimulus at around 250-300ms so if your ping is below that its a non issue. Expected stimulus as in waiting for a timer to run out is much faster. around 100 ms or so. in gaming most things that happen that require you to act are unexpected so there ya have it. Thats a joke, really. Completely unexpected stimulus, maybe, but in reaction time tests, ~150-200ms is much more common, and that is the same enviroment you will be in when you are trying to forcefield a bunch of roaches against your third and they are bouncing back and forth without committing, and comparing ping against reaction time is stupid. Ping is added to reaction time, NOT compared with it. If you are playing a FPS, or have a ghost and a high templar enter range of each other before either player see's them, for example, and both players have the same reaction time, then having 200ms higher ping will delay your shot/feedback/EMP by 0.2 seconds, and the player with the 200ms higher ping will lose EVERY time, unless he clicks 0.2 seconds or more earlier than the other player, which is a massive barrier to overcome. Delays in control hurt you in many other ways, and will ultimately mess up pretty much everything in some way, but the vast majority of players wont be high level enough for it to ~REALLY matter, when you consider 98% of active players are below masters (and many would argue and i agree that being "good" at the game does not really come until much higher ranking), and the skill cap is high enough to overcome delays, but in a GSL finals-like enviroment if one player was subjected to a 200ms delay on everything he did, it would be a very extreme handicap and almost impossible to overcome | ||
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ThatGuyDoMo
Australia516 Posts
SEA and NA are bearable. I can't really play on KR at all 300ms is about the threshold for being playable imo | ||
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Rollin
Australia1552 Posts
![[image loading]](http://www.speedtest.net/result/2092527386.png) 0 ms? Wtf (and it didn't timeout either, it did it pretty much instantaneously)? | ||
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grolyat
Scotland47 Posts
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ThatGuyDoMo
Australia516 Posts
You got 0ms because the speedtest is locating the closest server to you, so it only measures ONE HOP. The battle.net servers will be multiple hops away so the ping will increase for each hop. | ||
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Rollin
Australia1552 Posts
On August 01 2012 08:51 ThatGuyDoMo wrote: @Rollin You got 0ms because the speedtest is locating the closest server to you, so it only measures ONE HOP. The battle.net servers will be multiple hops away so the ping will increase for each hop. I know that, but at least from my house, it's generally around about 30ms to the Perth server, and I've never seen 0ms before, ever. I'm pretty sure my SEA battlenet ping is about 100-150 from memory, and my US batllenet ping is ~200-250 :/ | ||
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RiSkysc2
696 Posts
On July 31 2012 13:53 Rollin wrote: Seeing this thread prompted me to test my uni internet (never done it before), the result surprised me. 0 ms? Wtf (and it didn't timeout either, it did it pretty much instantaneously)? What the actual fuck, i dont know whether that's even possible... | ||
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