Coming Back... What US server to play on?

[MiRai]

Umm, I've been playing with 300-500ms ping for 6 years now. It did get up higher. I remember raiding in BT and MH and Sunwell with 1200. And that was server wide. If I get 200ms, I am VERY happy.

Although I didn't get a chance to do a lot of testing, I will second this statement. I started up an EU trial
over on Outland-EU a few months ago and I was able to get 120-150ms (with possibly some peaking
near 200ms in the overpopulated Stormwind) from the midwest area of the states. I was immediately
blown away when I saw how low my latency was across an ocean and I would only urge anyone who
would like to attempt to play outside of their native country to start up a trial in their desired region just
to see what type of latency they can achieve.

Naturally, I would expect the possibility of latency spikes to happen more often (than would normally occur
while playing) outside of your own region. Some people also experience more latency for no apparent
reason when running more than one client and you're always taking a gamble that your ISP, paired up with
other ISPs across the ocean together, are going to give you the desired lower latencies 24-7 (which isn't
always true).

If I could ensure that I would always get 100-200ms across the ocean to Outland-EU I would probably roll
on that server in a heartbeat; however, I'm not sure I could take them all making fun of my American
accent and them constantly calling me an Amerifag... I'm kind of sensitive.

Jesus, time to ditch that dial up man.

I'm in Memphis, I went from 120-200ms on Madoran US (Dallas at the time) to around 90ms-110ms on KJ (LA) Blew my mind I was getting better ping from a farther server.

If you weren't drinking so much whiskey you would see he's from Australia.