[Snap] Potential customer wants to know, how is WoW performance on SNAP?

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lunafishnz

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#102029 14-May-2012 22:03

Currently with Telstraclear and have been for a couple of years, have been happy with their gaming performance but not so happy with their data allowance. My son and I both play WoW, and latency is a big concern. I like the look of SNAP's data plans, but am keen to hear from people with SNAP who raid, as to what sort of latency they have when playing.

johnr

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#625135 14-May-2012 22:07

Are you on Telstraclear cable?

lunafishnz

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#625139 14-May-2012 22:15

No sorry, should have been specific, on DSL in Dunedin.

vexxxboy

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#625173 14-May-2012 23:14

im with Snap and my son plays WOW on the Australian servers on his laptop and gets 150 ping, and that is with 3 other connections going as well and at peak times.

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#625187 15-May-2012 00:55

Before I quit WoW last year I was averaging under 200ms ping to the Oceanic servers. I'm also in Dunedin.

Found Snap to be great for gaming in the last 4 years I've been with them.

Stasis007

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#625195 15-May-2012 03:03

I average ~160/160 latency. And that's with interleaving left on. It's often at 140 or better while I'm raiding (21:30-00:30). And I consider anything over 200ms to be crippling.

lunafishnz

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#625259 15-May-2012 09:09

Thanks for the responses, looks like I'm switching :)

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omeganz101

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#627962 20-May-2012 16:22

I have SNAP ADSL2+ and I play WoW quite often. I'm using an American server "Area 52", I get 216ms (Home) and 221ms (World). Not too bad, but I might look into transferring to an Oceanic PVE server if any of 'em are High Population, as on these ones I get around 141-146 ms.

lunafishnz

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#628033 20-May-2012 19:39

Signed up Tuesday lunchtime, was live by Tuesday evening :) Had two WoW raids this week on Nagrand, one of the Oceanic servers, no latency issues. Having occasional latency problems in Diablo 3, but given the bumpy launch, don't think that they are a Snap issue :)

wildfire

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#629064 22-May-2012 17:09

Those pings sound really good to me, When I was still playing WoW I was on Woosh Wireless at the time and was on the Nagrand Oceanic realm and my ping was over 1000 - 2000 quite often before I quit, trying to do anything PvP related was a nightmare, safe to say I wasn't with Woosh for much longer after that too lol.

omeganz101

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#629645 23-May-2012 21:22

wildfire: Those pings sound really good to me, When I was still playing WoW I was on Woosh Wireless at the time and was on the Nagrand Oceanic realm and my ping was over 1000 - 2000 quite often before I quit, trying to do anything PvP related was a nightmare, safe to say I wasn't with Woosh for much longer after that too lol.

1k-2k ping would be expected if you were using wireless internet.

wildfire

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#630501 25-May-2012 18:20

Yeah I realised that at the time and knew it would be no good for online gaming, thing was before Woosh Wireless started going downhill I was at least getting 600- 800 ms pings which is still pretty bad but at least some what acceptable and PvP was more tolerable , 60kb/sec download speed isn't acceptable when it's really only a tad faster than a 56k dialup connection.

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#630637 26-May-2012 10:24

vexxxboy: im with Snap and my son plays WOW on the Australian servers on his laptop and gets 150 ping, and that is with 3 other connections going as well and at peak times.

Just an FYI so there is no misinformation. The servers may be labeled as Oceanic, this is purely cosmetic. The oceanic servers are located in Los Angeles :)

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