Home Latency - World Latency Discrepanacy since .5

[Kozzae-doomhammer (Kozzae)]

Home and world might be different servers in wow, experiencing different latencies.

[Question] World vs Home Latency

They are two separate connections going at the same time, and they each deal with different aspects of the game. Home sends/receives data about your chat, guild info, item tooltips, auction house. World sends/receives data about your spells, abilities, character/NPC movement, combat mechanics. Both of the connections together make up WoW as you know it, and in terms of latency it is possible for one connect to be going to one data center and another to be going to a different data center. It…

I’ve seen others report recently connection issues, can’t connect from Sri Lanka, not sure is it’s the same issue, but try some things noted here.

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