the latency trick

[valkry]

Gz I suppose for taking your latency from 120 to 40 lol. Wish my country was as good, I'll just keep going with my 400-600 lat, even with the changes

[Tasty]

Wish my country was as good

Aus rocks! don't diss it :P

[Fleecy]

I have only just today discovered my ISP used to run a 'WoW tunneling service' but it was recently dropped as the technician managing the project has left the company. After a brief search I've discovered a similar service, its called WoW Tunnels, and strangely enough its located at www.wowtunnels.com. Today (about 1 hour ago) is the very first time I have ever used such a service. Because I live in New Zealand and I play on US server my in-game ping is around 500-700ms (yes I know its BAD) but if its sitting around 450 I'm happy with it. Over the last couple of weeks its been averaging around 600ms. I used the tunneling service about an hour ago and my ping is sitting stable at 230ms - during US prime time.

[valkry]

Wish my country was as good

Aus rocks! don't diss it :P

My country's internet*
Fixed

[Tasty]

I managed to trick my latency into lowering. I offerend it pancakes and it couldn't resist.

[Simulacra]

I have only just today discovered my ISP used to run a 'WoW tunneling service' but it was recently dropped as the technician managing the project has left the company. After a brief search I've discovered a similar service, its called WoW Tunnels, and strangely enough its located at www.wowtunnels.com. Today (about 1 hour ago) is the very first time I have ever used such a service. Because I live in New Zealand and I play on US server my in-game ping is around 500-700ms (yes I know its BAD) but if its sitting around 450 I'm happy with it. Over the last couple of weeks its been averaging around 600ms. I used the tunneling service about an hour ago and my ping is sitting stable at 230ms - during US prime time.

nice - I just checked out the site. So are there any issues running multiple accounts?

[Jamien]

There was a mod on curse that changed some settings on your PC (not related to wow, but stuff in the registry .. which I had already done >_> ) which helped a bit.

I tried out lowerping, which worked great, except for the fact that it's bannable.
People say it's not and try to find a loophole in the rules somewhere, but after reading numerous blue posts and spending ages trying to make sense of the FUBAR T&C/EULA/etc it's not worth the 100ms for my 5 accounts.
So yeh, tunneling isn't worth it. I've had guildies say they've been using it for ages fine, and heard from others that they were using it one day and banned the next.

[Fleecy]

I'm at work right now and I've remotely connected to home and setup the tunnel software, I've got got a single WoW running right now but in about 2 hours I'll be testing all 5 accounts.

The WoW Tunnel web site claim its perfectly legal and there is currently nothing in the ToS that says otherwise. The only real concern I have is vastly differing IP addresses when I use the tunnel client and when I don't use it. Ofcause when I don't use the client my IP address is NZ based, but when I do use the software my IP address is US based. I don't want Blizzard looking at that and thinking account sharing, so I'm having a little chat with them. I've got a ticket open at the moment and I'm waiting for a reply from a GM about the legality of it.

I'm still amazed at how much difference its made to my ping - from 600+ down to 235! I just can't get over the difference.

[Jamien]

It's redirecting your normal WoW traffic, which is a violation of the .. something or other. Can't remember which one.
But it's so loosely worded that they can bend it to whatever they want. That said, they also chucked in the "we can ban you for whatever reason, if any" clause too.

Pretty much I think the bans mostly come from people connecting via a tunnel service (redirects your connection so it looks like you are connecting from america (I'm in aus so yeh)) for a while, play on it like normal then oh noes their PC crashes, or they have to restart wow or whatever, then start wow back up and keep playing but forget to use the tunnel.
It then would pop up a big red flag (atleast I think it would) saying that it's detected an account that's all of a sudden connecting from the other side of the world in a timespan thats not humanly possible to travel. So it looks like account sharing/power levelling.
Most of the bans have come from, or been reported by, people levelling toons with it on, especially if you keep changing the server you're connecting from.

So before you jump headlong into it, just remember that it will flag you as even more suspicious if you are using it then forget to use it or change where it's connecting to. And boxers know that they get more attention than your average bear.

[mattbott]

(if one of you other folks remembers how to get the server IP, lemme know...I forget).

1) Log on to a character on WoW
2) Open up a comand prompt (Start > Run> type in cmd > press enter)
3) In the command prompt, type in:

netstat -n

4) Look in the second column (Foreign Address) and look for the IP and ends in :3724 (The port that WoW uses). That is the IP of the server.