Latency from south america?

[Dunkelheit]

Hello i just wanna know how much latency could i get playing on this server from south america, ¿Any south american player (who has played beta) can tell me or anyone from staff? ¿are we gonna see laggy ppl like feenix servers where u just cant play as melee class cuz always says "out of range"?
I have been watching and reading everything from youtube or this forum for a few days but noone asked this before. Ty for answer (if u can understand my engrish)

[James Goblin]

Try to check it with this http://www.reddit.com/r/wowservers/comm ... a_servers/

[azamous]

I'll put it here.

Open Command Prompt, type ping login.nostalrius.org

I'm from the UK and my ping is 15-18 ms

[Mackee95]

I'll put it here.

Open Command Prompt, type ping login.nostalrius.org

I'm from the UK and my ping is 15-18 ms

Can the "ping" vary depending on the speed or health of your computer, or is it only the type of internet you have that matters ?! Any ideas ?! x)

[keyl]

Terrible. The latency will be terrible. Especially from Brazil. Absolutely atrocious. I know this for a fact.

[Valek]

Hello guys,
I'm new here, and I was also looking for that answer, since I'm from Brazil and just LOVE Vanilla Wow.
I pinged "login.nostalrius.org" and got 250ms. Is that really bad? (I like to play caster)
Also, I saw some ppl talking about a VPN (i.e. SmoothPing). Does it really work/worth?
Thank you.

[Valek]

Ok, so I started playing today. I have 240ms latency, which is not bad, but it bothers me a little. So I spent 3 hours searching the internet for a solution, but nothing worked. I tried:

- Leatrix Latency Fix (also manual change of values)
- CCleaner
- TCP Optimizer
- SmoothPing (couldn't login while using this)
- PingZapper
- BattlePing
- FlyVPN

Nothing happened, actually, with some softwares I got more latency instead.
Any thoughts?

[Krusher]

well actually the ping result can rely in a few factors.
the main factor is distance.
the further away you are from the server the higher your ping is.
( ping is the result of how long it takes to get a reply back from the server you are pinging.
you send a small package of data to the server, the server says back to you " yes I received it" . the time it takes to send, for the server to receive, and send a reply back that you received is the ping time)
so if you are on another continent then Europe, likely your ping increases a lot.

second, your internet subscription.
cable / DSL provide okay ping.
fiber optic from the server to your home even across continent provide good ping although extremely expensive..
satellite, most of the times forget it... that uses a secondary geo-stationary satellite to relay your internet connection back to the ground.

so in short, are you far away from the server your ping will be higher
also if your internet connection is poor ( up to 5Mb/s is considered poor by me)

there might be some software to tweak it a little bit, but don't bother with that.

[Valek]

Actually, I'm kinda surprised I didn't get a ping like 400ms. Anyways, I think the bottleneck is my ISP, as you say. If the problem is the ISP, Proxy or VPN won't do much thing, right?
Thank you.

[Krusher]

yes correct.
since you are connected through your ISP to the VPN or Proxy it will not change much or even make it worse.

I did forgot to mention one thing, the server itself is also for a big factor responsible for the ping.
im about 150 km away of the server I believe and I have a 15 - 20 ms ping constantly.
other servers and/or other games it can be up to 200 for also servers in Europe.