Not related to racism or anything nasty, but there are certain servers I join from OCE and get 300-500+ ping. The other day went into LFR and the lead must have been from Mars or somewhere random because I jumped to 8K ping. The very next LFR I got into, no issues and I never have issues when I join OCE groups or host my own, at most I have seen is 22 home MS.
I don’t know what servers exactly affect me, but that last group was an Area 52 lead and I ranged between 300-500 and that hurts at that ping. Is there a list of servers and where exactly the server is physically located?
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As for the title of your thread, there is not.
Even if you had no intention to use it for racism, it would certainly open the gates to do so for others, so I don’t see it happening.
Now, something needs to be done about those high pings.
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Like what, chaining up Australia and moving it accross the pacific for thousand of miles using a massive army of tugboats ?
What a silly thing to say, there’s nothing to be done.
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Avoid anyone from Ragnaros they are all terrible players.
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Legend has it, there was one who rose above the rest.
Tell me about it. Ran an OCE group, 15MS, joined someone in an M15 in Area 52… 4K. But hey we timed it and I only died once.
I do a traceroute to the IP addresses on the Blizzard website, https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/7870, only 250MS maximum.
Tried the whole /ipconfig flush, reset and all that, reset all my router settings and whatever else every second website swears will fix your high ping every time.
Makes me wonder, is it just a few servers that are having issues on Blizzards end because it only started a couple of days ago and as per the usual, I have no issues at home. Speed test at home gives 3MS, 264 Mbps download and 23.2 Mbps upload.
Actually yes, premade groups filter and premade applicants filter lets you do this with some custom query. I think almost half the people pugging are from non NA realms. You’d be missing a lot of players which is why I stopped doing it. Now I just check logs, whoever is 99+ average will probably get in.
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There’s only a few OCE realms, and leaders often note that they’re OCE because it negatively impacts them when they’re playing with somebody from another region.
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I certainly don’t have the answer, and maybe there’s none, sadly. I’m just stating the fact that there is a problem in that area. I’m no expert in the matter.
Maybe someone with knowledge in this area can school us on whether this is something that can be improved on Blizzard’s side or if it’s just impossible to get better pings, no matter what they do about it.
As an OCE player, you’re going to want to memorize all the OCE servers. Every other server you see is located in the US.
I’ve been having really bad ping spikes as well in groups. I wonder if it has to do with the servers I’m connected too or if there is more issues behind the scenes perhaps because it’s been a lot more frequent than usual! Maybe something they did when they let alliance and horde dungeon together?
While we do, it’s not like I can magically make an OCE group appear AND accept my invite request, we just have to deal with what there is sometimes.
I find when I connect to US West (LA according to the Wiki) I get ~140 ping, but when I connect to US Central (Chicago) I get some absurd ping that would rival something NASA gets to the moon.
I haven’t noticed it much until this week, but it’s definitely not normal with the US Central servers from what I am seeing.
