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

[Svpernova09]

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.

Yea, I don't like to see people QQ over high ping in front of me lol.

And if I didn't have my brother and a few friends on Frostmourne, I'd transfer to KJ Alliance in a heart beat!!

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.

[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.

[Svpernova09]

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

Ah yeah, Aussies get the short end of the gaming end. I understand Blizzards point of why they don't have AUS servers, but damn :/

[zenga]

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.

If you were to use an ssh tunnel you could (most likely) achieve even better pings. SSH traffic often gets prioritized over 'normal' traffic. There are a couple of wow specific companies who offer this service for just a few $ a month. 200 ms going as low as 70-80 cross ocean, etc ... obv as you stated there are multiple variables who influence your personal ping. Myself I have a US account for a while now and I play on an east coast server (from within Europe) at 70/80 ms average, using my own tunnel. That is with only 1 account though.

In some of the guilds I'm raiding with we have some americans (they all happen to be from bloody texas btw) who prefer our raiding hours. And encounter mechanics where lag is quite an issue such as (twilight slicer) sinestra or (world in flames) on ragnaros heroic never turned out to be a problem.

[Zub]

Been playing 5years with an average ping of 400ms, it works fine.
A bit frustrating sometimes but didn't really stop me from doing anything.

[jstanthr]

I 2nd magtheridon for horde, and kj for alliance

[Toned]

I'm moving to US-Blackrock in a week.

[ebony]

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.

meh am in the UK and can get lag now and again. (a lot of UK ISP use high QoS on there data.) to be fair its the biggest server in the EU English anyway its crazy fun there. (just youtube outland-eu) i sit on about a 150-550ms and it sucks.

[Shodokan]

I'm moving to US-Blackrock in a week.

bad choice... dying server especially PVP wise.

[Ualaa]

Tim (MB.com) has the guild, "But Mom I'm Multiboxing", hordeside on Blackrock US.
Not sure how many active boxers they have.