So, news just hit, Oceanic servers will be transferred to Australia next week.
Free server transfers to Australia next week as well.

All oceanic servers to be ported over as is.

Australian and New Zealand players are obviously going to enjoy way better ping,
but how does this affect SEA players? From trying to play League of Legends and
Dota 2 on AU servers I notice the ping is even worse than America, 200~ping to US
350~ ping to Australia, probably due to the way its routed, will proxies help?

If not how will people handle an increase in ping? Will SEA players have to play
on US servers instead?

Sources:
https://twitter.com/AtticusThomas/status/525210205236117505

https://twitter.com/AtticusThomas/status/525210802794418176

Q: Where will the servers be physically located?
A: The game servers will be hosted within an Australian data centre, ensuring Australian and New Zealand players receive the best possible latency.

Q: Will I still be able to play with my friends who are on U.S. servers?
A: Yes! Because the new Australian World of Warcraft game servers will continue to communicate with the existing North American hardware, players will still be able to play with friends on U.S game servers, just as they can today. They’ll still be able to use their Battle.net friends list to easily group up and chat, regardless of where they are playing.

Inb4 aussie is like a zoo nnt seber keep down animals makan on site engineer

In all seriousness this should improve our latency by a whole lot. Having blizz eyeing more to this part of the world maybe someday will hv blizz event in kl

Our connection to australia is not really optimized. I played diablo3 on aussie server and the ping fluctuates alot between 150-350ms. Whereas connection to US is a stable 200-220ms, it feels alot more consistent and smoother on the US server.

I'm trying WoW taiwan now and ping is between 60-150ms.

As rockets has mentioned, it's the connection/routing to Australia that plays an important part on whether we can get better latency results with WoW. Of course, those playing in Australia will get the biggest benefits in terms of the latency.

For those interested, here is a quick result capture of speedtest results to Australian servers. Although it may not be 100% accurate, it should give an idea of the latency we could potentially get. I have no idea of the location of the servers so I just tried some of the potential cities.

My connection info:
ISP: Time Broadband 8Mbps
WoW Server: Tichondrius (US)
In-game latency: 187 - 195 ms



Once we have an idea of the physical location of the WoW data centres and (possibly) the ISP of those data centres, we may be able to see if we can get better results.

Try do a tracerout between these two: 103.4.115.248(D3 AUS) and 12.129.209.68(WoW Bloodlust).

Well, not much of a difference though . But still better than 200 ms

There is a difference I notice, better ping for aussie pvper means they got lower latency to pvp with us.

im hoping for sub 200ms ping but pinging to d3 aus and bloodlust wow almost same.

After reading all the post about ping in battle.net forum--->

server is up...i got 206ms...how about u guys?

shit what ping you guys getting..i was a little worried cuz i'm aware of the bad routing from australia to SEA.

Still at work, can't test till at least 8pm

i got 190-200ms on unifi

while my fren using maxis are getting 140-150ms

tested on unifi 5mbps and i got 190-200 ms ,

Using pingzapper to connect to a sydney server, get 260ms, if I connect to a singapore server I get 216ms. Weird.

i got 170 ms connecting with singapore server in pingzapper

105ms on Unifi via Singapore

140ms with sydney server now

everything will be ok afterall....

Hope I din't read the Blue post wrongly, we get to transfer our toon off from US realm / Frostmourne for free, no limit?

US REAlm and frostmourne only applicable for US account / players only IINM

oceanic players wont effect i think??

and u NEED to pay first then only blizzard will REFUND it back to you within 2 weeks transfer time.

ONLY SERVER TRANSFER applicable, racial changes, faction change and name change u have to pay it yourself

this is to my understanding at least..

btw streamyx 1mbps here at kota bharu ping to gundrak oceanic (AUS server)
220ms , ping zapper just now 160ms then naik 280ms.. bengong tol

with pingzapper to singapore server i'm at 200ms

to australian servers it's 290ms

seems to be much worse than before migration

so fuking lag now jeez

used to have 100-150 ms now 250-300

gg boys

okay, i'm trying to use Battleping now

it's about 100ms for me connecting to Malaysia 2 server

u guys can try it, trial is free

whatis ur isp and package?.. link battleping pls..

which server u playing now

oh well..tonight suddenly the ping is so high..from 190 to 260..then now 500 n in raid increased until 5k..if no improvement soon, might need to use tunneling afterall

oz get < 100, gg pvp

tried battleping malaysia server..getting 110ms

Bro, need help on battleping, first time user, am I considered connected? I'm on trial but it doesn't seems to disconnect me after 20mins anyway, so I was wondering if I'm connected.

This post has been edited by helven: Oct 30 2014, 12:08 AM

hmm yeah u should be connected

but im not sure about the not dc part since i havent log on for full 20mins when using battleping

p/s: use malaysia 2 server

This post has been edited by busbos: Oct 30 2014, 12:35 AM

aight thanks man

got 110ms with battleping too

Unifi 5mbps
w/o battleping i'm getting 400+ms
with battleping 110ms

This post has been edited by helven: Oct 30 2014, 03:14 AM

tried battleping,, i get 140ms with streamyx 1mbps

better than pingzapper.. if this constant daily 140ms i might buy 1 month membership

8mbit here. from rawang.

220ms w/o tunnel. occasional spikes on world latency during raid to 400ms.
166ms using pingzapper (sydney), no spikes.
140ms constant with battleping (msia 1/2). no spikes.
133ms constant with WTFast (singapore 8). no spikes.

This post has been edited by joeboto: Oct 30 2014, 02:39 PM

Unifi 10Mb 400-500ms without battleping, 110ms with battleping.
used to get consistant 200ms when servers were in the US.

Unifi 10Mb here. without tunnel 300-400ms.
Currently trying lowerping, battleping and wtfast. I get 110ms with lowerping, 140ms with battleping and 140ms with wtfast.

well f***. Thts so sad when you have to buy a tunneler just to play a game. On another note, Blizzard answered my ticket and offered to transfer all my toons out of Oceanic to a US based server for free.

This post has been edited by abusive123: Oct 30 2014, 09:35 AM

Never played with tunneling since I got Maxis HOME 10mbps.

Before migration: 190-250
After migration: 150-180

It's not constant, sometimes it goes to the usual 209ish probably because it's BG and connected to LA anyways.

But if it's in open world, 150ms

Really? I got 400-550ms yesterday after midnight. Haven't login today but from the look on traceroute..it's probably 250-280ish.

Tracing route to 103.4.115.35 with TTL of 32:

1 0ms 0ms 0ms 192.168.0.1
2 7ms 7ms 7ms 115.132.109.74
3 7ms 6ms 6ms 115.132.109.85
4 10ms 9ms 9ms 10.55.37.20
5 43ms 42ms 44ms 63-216-142-53.static.pccwglobal.net [63.216.142.53]
6 47ms 47ms 47ms TenGE11-4.br01.sin02.pccwbtn.net [63.218.228.78]
7 47ms 46ms 46ms TenGE11-4.br01.sin02.pccwbtn.net [63.218.228.78]
8 265ms 265ms 266ms 63-218-213-22.static.pccwglobal.net [63.218.213.22]
9 268ms 268ms 268ms ten-0-2-1-3.cor01.sin01.sin.VOCUS.net [114.31.206.164]
10 259ms 259ms 259ms so-0-7-0-0.cor01.per02.wa.VOCUS.net.au [114.31.206.140]
11 266ms 264ms 265ms ten-0-2-0-7.cor03.syd03.nsw.VOCUS.net.au [114.31.206.126]
12 258ms 258ms 258ms ten-1-0-0.bdr03.syd04.nsw.VOCUS.net.au [175.45.72.73]
13 258ms 258ms 260ms as17819.cust.bdr03.syd04.nsw.VOCUS.net.au [175.45.73.194]
14 258ms 259ms 258ms 27.111.251.106
15 258ms * 259ms 27.111.251.114

27.111.251.114 reports: Destination network unreachable.

I'm on Unifi 20.

Exactly same as you, I am using maxis home fibre 10MBps,

Before migration: 190-230 ms
After migration: 150-170 ms

Server migration improved for me slightly. I am at Taman Desa area, where are you at khelben?

It looks like we're forced to use tunneling service or else it is not playable.

ok battle ping is giving me 130-135 so far on Barthilas (malaysia 2). I think i will try it out for two weeks and if its good I will come back to wreck some allies on that server.

2ndly I might be able to arena finally.... FINALLY....

Will monitor for 2 weeks and if all is good, will be back on barthilas HOrde when WOD hits

I wonder if anyone on maxis can post their traceroute? It's mind boggling for me how on the 7th hop the latency is 40ish but the next hop it hike up to 250ish even though the ip address of the 7th and the 8th are probably the same area.

Tracing route to 103.4.115.35 with TTL of 32:

1 0ms 0ms 0ms 192.168.0.1
2 6ms 8ms 7ms 115.132.109.86
3 21ms 6ms 5ms 115.132.109.85
4 9ms 9ms 10ms 10.55.37.20
5 43ms 43ms 43ms 63-216-142-53.static.pccwglobal.net [63.216.142.53]
6 49ms 47ms 47ms TenGE11-4.br01.sin02.pccwbtn.net [63.218.228.78]
7 47ms 47ms 53ms TenGE11-4.br01.sin02.pccwbtn.net [63.218.228.78]
8 264ms 264ms 264ms 63-218-213-22.static.pccwglobal.net [63.218.213.22]
9 267ms 267ms 267ms ten-0-2-1-3.cor01.sin01.sin.VOCUS.net [114.31.206.164]
10 258ms 259ms 258ms so-0-7-0-0.cor01.per02.wa.VOCUS.net.au [114.31.206.140]
11 265ms 265ms 264ms ten-0-2-0-7.cor03.syd03.nsw.VOCUS.net.au [114.31.206.126]
12 258ms 258ms 258ms ten-1-0-0.bdr03.syd04.nsw.VOCUS.net.au [175.45.72.73]
13 262ms 259ms 258ms as17819.cust.bdr03.syd04.nsw.VOCUS.net.au [175.45.73.194]
14 258ms 258ms 259ms 27.111.251.106
15 * * * Request timed out.
16 258ms * * 27.111.251.114

27.111.251.114 reports: Destination network unreachable.

Ah, you can d/l http://old.r1ch.net/stuff/ftrace/ to traceroute if you can't do it the usual way (command prompt tracert).

I'm at Medan Damansara Hopefully Maxis wont suddenly change the routing.

You'll be pitted against north americans too and when that happens, you'll be connected to North American realms and your ping will be like before inside arenas, so, to be honest not much has changed.

I'll try when I get home. Yeah it doesn't show with command prompt.

yup. seems like maxis is doing good with their routing to aus since my friend are also getting ~150ms without tunneling.

us, unifi user suffer from this server relocation. it was fine though, until last night when the latency shoot up to 400-500ms and now constant ~250ms

this is just like TBC all over again where we need to use tunneling service to play WoW or else it's unplayable

So true! Here I thought tunneling services were behind me. But it's still early, lets hope for the best

Omg.. Need to use tunneling to get steady ping.. Unifi 5mbps here in Gombak. Before migration: 200-250ms After: 267-400ms.. gg blizzard.

well the good news about the relocation is that eventhough we have to use tunnel we can now finally get sub 150ms in WoW which was not even possible before

https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/pe...ng-a-traceroute

check that out if ya want to check ping before going ingame. its the same as diablo 3 aus one.

im in penang using streamyx 4mbps oni..

150~180ms ping! naisuu

*i dont use stock modem/router from tm

This post has been edited by udin901: Nov 2 2014, 04:13 AM

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This post has been edited by idyllrain: Sep 9 2015, 12:54 AM

Oceania servers are now so slow. Am thinking to try out a ping helper service to see if it helps. Is pingzapper good enough for this? This is the cheapest service I have found so far.

U can use the trial to see if the ping suits you, everyone get different ping, ISP, location is the factor. But most of the people i heard, Battleping is way better.

Btw, battleping doesn't dc me every 20min even in trial

Have you updated your addons?
You can check to see if it's due to your addons by unchecking them first.

guess i will give battleping a try then. lets hope it is free for me as well.

My addons are all up to date. Not loading them seems to do nothing to the ping time.

holy shit tonight was a lagfest. cant even interact with anything. but chat has no problem.

Ping shoot up to 6000 ms.

sigh, after the migration, i am getting frequent disconnection during instances or raids or even questing...

still having latency problem. its always either home or world latency shoots up skyhigh.

Hye guys, i am coming back to WoW after hiatus..

planning to transfer to Oceanic soon,

which realm that you recommended to join?

and any Guild that got free slot to join....

Hi, first time posting.

I'm on Maxis 10, and playing on Barthilas but am getting 260ms. I've tried Battle Ping with Malaysia 2 server on trial, also getting 260ms

Would appreciate it if you guys have any suggestions? Thank you!

>< double posts so sorry!

This post has been edited by FlyQT: Dec 1 2014, 03:52 PM

oopsies double posted please delete this xD

This post has been edited by FlyQT: Dec 1 2014, 03:51 PM

I am also on maxis 10. Latency when spike is totally unplayable for serious raid content, especially progression. Normal 260ms, might still be able to play, though not optimum, but at times it just shot up to 600 or 700ms, and my screen still has wow, just that the character stop responding in my screen. everyone seems to stop moving, where in actual fact they are moving. I ran pathping and found there are a few path to have 100 % packet loss. Contacted maxis, their technical team unable to resolve, escalated this problem to tier 2. Still waiting for resolution. Advise others with maxis to call up and highlight to them the issue as well so action can be taken. Or u can just suffer without doing anything.

there is cable faulty somewhere which connect us to aus. repairs are underway. hopefully its repaired by tomorrow.

Frostmourne, my server.

Yeah can't seem to play it afterwards. I hope they can compensate a 1 month subscription once in a while for that haha!

I was getting 180ms in my Garrison before maintenance started. Fingers crossed it gets fixed soon

What are you guys getting ping wise, without tunnels on Maxis?

Guys, tumpang thread.

What time does conquest pts reset on oceanic servers?
Is it tonight? Thanks.