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On 25/06/2014 1:19 PM, k wrote:
> "Peter T." <pinoc10@hotmail.cum> wrote in message
> news:lmnaae$eol$1@speranza.aioe.org...
>> Kinda fun.  Since we got 2 extra item upgrades so we now have 4 I decided
>> to check guildox a few mins ago.  It seems like Asia has 6 item upgrades
>> while the rest of us (EU/US/Oceania) have 4 item upgrades.
>> Click a random char and check ther char on their armory by clicking the
>> small arrow at the nick. ^^
>>
>> <http://www.guildox.com/go/g.aspx?w=&a=8>
>>
>> --
>> Peter T.
>
>
> Does anyone know what sort of latencies they see in asia generally.. and are
> the 6 upgrades  a latency-compensation feature?
  They have server farms in korea and taiwan, but that could have changed.
  Latency should be a lot less than piping it all the way acroos the 
pacific and back so I doubt it is that.
  Upgrades only make a difference to out of game epeen, and they are 
going away anyway.

>
> Actually while on the matter of latency, when Blizz changed the ingame
...
> We'd been playing over one whole second
> behind the NZ players.
   Assuming you packets were via nz, but there are other cables. Some 
isps also have US pops and channels data goes more or less express 
rather than switched which can speed things up.
http://www.cablemap.info/
 From adelaide I get 200-300 regularly now via internode and optus, 
thats pretty much zero delay apart from physics.

But anywhere else with extra stages or add satellite up/down..pretty 
much impossible to do anything requiring timing by austar and I doubt 
the new Ka-band satellites would be any better for ping.
NBN? nobloodynearer :-)

Actually ping isn't so bad, it is variable ping that makes it really 
hard. Do I lead by ~500ms? nope, missed, was I early or late??
Try again, got it, try again, miss,miss,miss,hit,miss, but an hour ago I 
could hit every time.
I have traced some packets going US-south america first, because 
Argentina is obviously the shortest route, even if there is no cable 
across the south pole :-)  Some even take off clear across 
asia,europe,us, I suppose the asia-us link is congested.
Though mostly it is adel-melb-syd-guam-us rather than via nz now, that 
probably depends on isp and their cable tunneling deals..


> My point is, if Asia has latency issues that makes game play difficult then
> compensating them with 6 slot pgrades makes sense.
  Why would it?, they aren't playing against anyone else so it makes no 
difference if they have none or 100. A little mitigation and dps has 
little effect on being defeated by mechanics.

> but Australian players
> with 1 second + latency will never get such help, because they play on
> english speaking servers and anyone seeing some aussie player running about
> with a 6 slot upgrade is going to scream the house down about how unfair
> that it.
  You shouldn't be at 1 second any more in a major city, change isps.
  In the country? it will suck, it always sucks, thats why we get a zone 
tax allowance :-)

  Blizzard don't want to put a server farm here, we aren't actually 
entitled to expect much for a $US15 monthly fee and a relatively small 
user base.

  just play ah , 48 hour ping to sell :-)