Best latency to USA servers

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#2245795 26-May-2019 11:05

The time in ms (1000ms=1s) for the data to make a round trip to the server. If you are gaming, that's ~ delay that you get from when you press a button to when the action happens. Humans can react in about 100ms (depending on a lot of factors, so it's a huge range really, but - in gaming terms, that's a good ballpark.) So, if your ping is over 100, your opponent get your ping - their ping extra time to react. Depending on the game, that's either irrelevant or the difference between winning and loosing... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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#2245811 26-May-2019 11:29

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The time in ms (1000ms=1s) for the data to make a round trip to the server. If you are gaming, that's ~ delay that you get from when you press a button to when the action happens. Humans can react in about 100ms (depending on a lot of factors, so it's a huge range really, but - in gaming terms, that's a good ballpark.) So, if your ping is over 100, your opponent get your ping - their ping extra time to react. Depending on the game, that's either irrelevant or the difference between winning and loosing... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Vocus group(Orcon) has a very good pipe to the US. Pings are 140-180ms depending on the server locations.

I play on Aussie servers with 30-35 ping.

Also friends don't let friends join MyRepublic or Stuff internet.

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#2245812 26-May-2019 11:36

If you are with them, could you ping wotna3.login.wargaming.net for me and tell me your latency? Oh, and if you don't mind, which part of NZ is it from?

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#2245815 26-May-2019 11:43

shrub:

Also friends don't let friends join MyRepublic or Stuff internet.

Stuff Internet is fine. They use Devoli who have a very good network.

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Master Geek

#2245820 26-May-2019 11:54

I'm going to give 2° a shot for a year, unless a good reason not to comes up.

(My MR billing cycle starts tomorrow - so trying to sort it today, so I only have to pay one 30 day charge to be set free...)

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#2245821 26-May-2019 11:56

Pinging a gaming server is not going to give you a true reflection of the latency as icmp packets don't get priority

2degrees is your best choice

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Master Geek

#2245822 26-May-2019 11:59

It's been pretty accurate with WG's servers. Although, the biggest problem is MR dropping packets in the evenings. It's been getting worse and worse tbh.

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#2245824 26-May-2019 12:01

Your latency with 2degrees will probably be worse, given I'm in Wellington and it's the same as your current latency and you're down south

However, I doubt you'll suffer packet loss on 2degrees vs MR

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Master Geek

#2245826 26-May-2019 12:04

If the jitter is good, and they are not dropping packets, I'm willing to give them a try. Having said that, I've been on hold to their call centre for almost half hour; they are going to loose a customer if they don't pick up before I have to go pickup the kid. :-b

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#2245828 26-May-2019 12:09

Please don't tell me you are calling to talk about latency to gaming servers!

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#2245829 26-May-2019 12:09

He's calling to sign up to 2degrees. . . .

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Master Geek

#2245830 26-May-2019 12:15

Yep - they picked up 5 minutes before I had to jump in the car - all sorted there, guess I will call MR and give them the good news... If it doesn't work out, I guess, I will be posting a new thread in 12 months. Thanks for all your help, one and all, much appreciated.

PS. Once I'm up and running w/ 2° I'll add a post with results.

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#2245831 26-May-2019 12:16

Just sign up via their website - avoids the call centre that way.

Lunchtime, on a weekend is almost the worst time to attempt to phone anywhere.

Edit: Don't tell MyRepublic. Let 2degrees handle it and phone MyRepublic to ensure your billing relationship is finished after you've transferred.

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Master Geek

#2245832 26-May-2019 12:19

I did - I just needed to confirm the switchover details so I don't end up with a gap etc... There is no option to include extra info in their web forms and the confirmation email is pretty sparse on details.

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Master Geek

#2245833 26-May-2019 12:20

Linux: Please don't tell me you are calling to talk about latency to gaming servers!

LOL, I grew out of my BDSM phase a while ago...

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