300 ms is the average connection speed even from ppl living in Australia, NZ, and anywhere else outside of the USA. if u're getting 300 ms, that's pretty good.

a lot of us are playing in the 400-800 ms range. and this is not a true reflection of the latency. because it is possible to play 1K lag provided there's no unusual lagspikes. it's the lagspikes that kills u, not the pings.

the server latency problem is not due to whether it's a US or Oceanic server. it depends on the server itself. some servers are known to lag more than others. due to high population or just hardware issues.

-bleargh. double posting-

This post has been edited by myremi: Apr 11 2007, 02:53 PM

hee hee...skill turning indeed. somehow that cracks me up. reminds me of the old type of car where you have to "crank the engine to start".

limsk is right though. it is true that you need to find one where there's a lot of ppl on your timezone. there's quite a number of asian-timezone guilds still on the US servers.

plus, being on the US servers, there is an advantage of having more skilled PUG players for instancing compared to Oceanic servers.

i'll answer here rather than the other one. leave the other one for IPs only nagflar.

also, those of us who do play, we reconnect to streamyx until we have a fast line and leave the PC on the whole day to have that fast line. some folks say to leave the router on but i find when i start up my PC again, suddenly IP changes and slows down.

starting areas will also have low latency because it's more packed with ppl and especially in the capital cities of stormwind and ironforge. darnassus has a smaller population so shouldn't lag. erodar is just empty coz it's just too darn big.

leave only your Antivirus and Firewall working in the background. no music player, no chat programs, no spyware, no browser on. some folks play the music on the same player provided that u have enough memory. else turn them off. also, sometimes it helps to go Full-screen rather than Windows mode.

u give up too easily nagflar. that's quite a lot of money wasted if u've already gotten the retail version of the game.

usually for bad connections like urs, u might want to start off on a low population server. u can see it in the realms list. the lag would decrease a lot.

Glad to hear that part of your problems have gone. Wait until you get to Outlands. Then the latency will shoot up.

I notice one thing about tracerts. To do it, you cannot be downloading anything in the background and not do anything either. Else you'll run into the problems that you're facing i.e. by 3rd hop, it's timeout.

Oh, and don't run BitTorrent in the background. The lag would increase.

You can also try using this program as an alternative to the tracert command in MSPrompt. http://www.d3tr.de

And since you have experienced with WoW China, you should be familiar with the different lag spikes in different zones.