OK, after the so-called upgrades that TM conducted which was supposed to be completed on the 2nd of July, my connection, which previously had a decent latency to WoW servers, turned bad.

Before today, the latency when playing WoW was always in the range of 200-400ms. Now, its fluctuates between 500-1000ms.

I am on a good IP in my area which is 218.208.*.*

Previously, I was getting quality connections to WoW like this. This is the trace route taken before the 2/7/07 upgrades from my house in Sentul, Jalan Ipoh, KL

Tracing route to us.logon.worldofwarcraft.com [12.129.224.114]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    *        *        *    Request timed out.
  2    45 ms    31 ms  104 ms  219.93.218.177
  3    10 ms    9 ms    9 ms  219.93.216.101
  4    11 ms    11 ms    9 ms  210.187.132.83
  5    10 ms    9 ms    9 ms  58.27.124.50
  6    11 ms    11 ms    10 ms  219.93.174.67
  7  205 ms  205 ms  206 ms  12.118.124.41
  8  203 ms  205 ms  204 ms  tbr1.la2ca.ip.att.net [12.122.2.250]
  9  203 ms  201 ms  201 ms  12.127.3.185
10  202 ms  203 ms  204 ms  12.122.255.74
11  207 ms  208 ms  206 ms  mdf001c7613r0004-gig-12-1.lax1.attens.net [12.129.193.246]
12    *        *        *    Request timed out.
13    *        *        *    Request timed out.

Today, I am getting this:

Tracing route to us.logon.worldofwarcraft.com [12.129.224.113]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    *        *        *    Request timed out.
  2    77 ms    71 ms  113 ms  219.93.218.177
  3    10 ms    9 ms    11 ms  219.93.216.101
  4    10 ms    9 ms    12 ms  210.187.133.83
  5    11 ms    11 ms    19 ms  58.27.124.54
  6    9 ms    10 ms    9 ms  219.94.9.25
  7  480 ms  480 ms  480 ms  12.118.124.101
  8  483 ms  484 ms  482 ms  tbr1.la2ca.ip.att.net [12.122.2.250]
  9  481 ms  482 ms  480 ms  12.127.3.185
10  481 ms  480 ms  480 ms  12.122.255.74
11  482 ms  482 ms  520 ms  mdf001c7613r0003-gig-10-1.lax1.attens.net [12.12
9.193.242]
12    *        *        *    Request timed out.
13    *        *        *    Request timed out.

I really, really hope this is just a temporary hiccup that will go away in time. Otherwise, I would have no more chance to enjoy WoW like I previously did. 1000ms is pretty much unacceptable.