QUOTE(allancth @ Feb 22 2010, 12:26 PM)
What do you mean local internet? Private servers located in Malaysia?
So no one in Malaysia is playing in US servers?
i'm guessing you are using none other than TMNut screamyx (like, we have *any* other alternatives... unless you're living in area where time.com/ metrofon/ penengfon service are available... )
if you have the chance to call them up and complain about how lag it is when you're download/ youtube/ MMO craws as if it is carried by a snail, their response would wrap around the phase 'best effort basis', which means if they provide 70% of your current package, or if you are lucky to have 1.2x of the expected speed... 'localy'... not regional... not international... but local...
that also means if you're a 1mbps service subscriber log in WoW and noticed 5 figures on you latency, yet the responses getting from pinging TMNut headquarters are average 832ms... you're being buttsecks by TMNut and prepare to brace yourself from the flooding negative comments like 'L2P', 'noob-tastic', 'GTFO', 'lolret', 'scrubs', etc during any raids or bgs.
there's actually other ways to get around the issue, other than migrate out of this motha*beep*in' land:
1. get tunneling services like gamep*th, gamet*ne or p*ng2pwn, they would only suffer if the service provider decides to buttsecks them for the lulz
2. cybercafe, if you have extra cash to spare; blizz authenticator is a must becoz it's a place where key loggers, scammers and ordinary players
3. some online self-ping-lower thingamajig, it only lowers average 100ms and will eventually d/c if there's over 10 players on screen casting spells
4. get a gurlfwen, real life 'pvp' in 'battleground' > pvp in wow
disclaimer:
names of tunneling services are being hashed to avoid people accusing me of giving advertisement without even trying them...