what server does your friends play on? are they busy ones or new ones?

I sometimes wonder about that in-game latency meter. There are times when I get 600 ms and it's still playable. Other times it's plague by bad lag spikes of 5-10 secs.

Best test is do 40-man raid. If can survive that, got a good line then.

I remember seeing a WoW posting in the WoW Technicial Forums saying that most regions outside of US will have pings of 300-500 ms or thereabout-ish. That includes Oz, NZ, South America.

If I can get onto 100-200 ms, I'm more than happy already liaw.