Eu vs US ping / ms (east coast)

[zenga]

Hey,

I wanna give the US realms a shot being EU myself. Reason being is that over the next year(s) I'll spend quite some time in the US for work. Not ditching my EU account, just wanting to see how it's over there and combine both.

We've had a couple of american players in our guild lately who are working night shifts, and they seemed to do OK. They left so can't ask them atm.

So my question: anyone been playing wow from inside the EU on the US servers, if so what was your experience and how was the ms? Any tips/pointers? I do have access to my own SSH tunnel to improve possible slack on the line. But that machine is EU based. Would a tunnel to a US ssh server do more good?

Cheers
Z

[Zub]

best probably to check your ping times to the US and EU datacenters i guess

[Apps]

Zenga,
I travel a lot. I was in Essen Germany a few months back. My laptop has a wow client on it. Not the best of laptops but its more than ok for play. Now, granted, I used the Holiday Inn LAN connection, which they claim is a T1 connection, but I didnt have any problems once I got logged in. It seems the authentication servers took a few extra seconds. Unfortunately I didnt think to check the ms... but ill say this, I didnt check it, because I didnt have any reason to check it.. it all went smooth...

single Boxed, DELL PRECISION M4300 with RAM and video card upgrades.

[zenga]

best probably to check your ping times to the US and EU datacenters i guess

i didn't realize that info was available ... cheers
still i imagine game data send/received might influence the ping data

[zenga]

Zenga,
I travel a lot. I was in Essen Germany a few months back. My laptop has a wow client on it. Not the best of laptops but its more than ok for play. Now, granted, I used the Holiday Inn LAN connection, which they claim is a T1 connection, but I didnt have any problems once I got logged in. It seems the authentication servers took a few extra seconds. Unfortunately I didnt think to check the ms... but ill say this, I didnt check it, because I didnt have any reason to check it.. it all went smooth...


yeah i don't expect to have 2k ms so it becomes a problem, but I do a lot of pvp and progress raiding, so msis a factor, even if it's fine for casual play. I mean, i'm used to play at 25 ms, and I noticed a huge difference in pvp once it goes above 100 ms on the odd occasions.

[Sam DeathWalker]

Ya if my ping is over 100ms I don't even bother to play (even though I could). I'm close to my datacenter and get 30-60ms most all the time.