argh... yester my marathon started well when i get average 400 to 800 ms ping... after 6 am go to sleep, wake up at 10.30, strat playing at 11.30 but to c the ping raising from 2k to 3k to 4k.... stop playing.. power up ps2, continue playing wow at 8pm hope to get good connection then the same thing happen again the ping raise..... dammmmmm hopefully this wont happen to me today cause this is 2day marathon........

I played yesterday with a 2-3k ping. I am staying in USJ4.
Tried it on;

219.95, bad....
219.93, just as bad...there was this one time it went up to 6k
218.* , same also...

wtf...

I have a newbie question though. Does our uploading capacity has an effect on the lag? Cos I suppose we need to transmit data to the server as well? I am playing on a 512 kbps, maybe that's why it sucks so much for me.

MMORPGS don't need such high bandwidth. Normally even at 64kbps will be enough. What MMORPGS need is good response time, around 500-1000ms (online FPS need even less than that!!).

Don't confuse yourselves with bandwidth and response time. High bandwidth don't guarantee you good response time, as in TMNut's case.

Currently, what we're having here is average response time (~600ms) but HUGE timeouts that affects our online gameplay. Timeout, for those who are not in the know, means data that was sent out not received by the other party and vice versa. This, imo, is a BIGGER problem than having slow response time. These irregular timeouts makes predictive actions, eg. healing teammates or yourself, much much harder. Magic users will have a hard time playing in such environment since they need to activate a key (sending data from PC to WoW server) to cast a spell, unlike a warrior.

Since there is no official news that the 2nd cable has been 100% fixed, we'll just have to wait it out a few more days, until the network balancing is completed by all parties involved.