new router =less lat.

[Gallo]

Where did you hear about that Eteocles?

[Chorizotarian]

Keep in mind that the speed of light travel distance across the whole US is < 20 ms. You are far more likely to be hurt by routing issues than by actual distance. If you do a traceroute to the wow servers in various battlegroups you will probably see little difference in ping time based on how far away they are.

[Anozireth]

That is true, but chances are that you will have to go through several more routers to get across the country compared to across town.

[Majestic_Clown]

all fail, realms in the US are scattered all over the place:

http://www.wowwiki.com/US_realm_list_by_datacenter

[Anozireth]

all fail, realms in the US are scattered all over the place:

http://www.wowwiki.com/US_realm_list_by_datacenter

I totally beat you to it! :P

[Chorizotarian]

Right, and what I am saying is that I've run traceroutes to the ones in Seattle (where I live) and the ones in all of the other datacenters, and I see virtually no difference. Almost all of the time is spent bopping around local servers on each end. The fiber in between is so fast it really doesn't matter whether it's an east coast server or west coast.

[NightFire]

I would dump the wireless router all together and get a hardwired setup. A wireless network shares the advertised bandwidth with all devices connected to it, a hard wire network dedicates the advertised amount of bandwidth to each device.

This is the wireless router I have and here is the router I use now. Their is a huge difference. They are the same routers, except one is wireless and the other is not.

[Eteocles]

A bit late I know but it was on the Comcast forums which require a comcast acct to read lol; there were a halfdozen or more threads about it, all in my general area, all with the same problem hud in their tracerts; today however that problem hub isn't in my tracerts and I've had smooth 40-60ms pings all day lol