Australia deserves better latency

[Morzy]

Why? Why do you have shit latency? I see EU friends play on NA servers just fine, the only issue they have is the time zone, so why are you so different?

Is it really SE's fault for not locating in Australia or is it someone else's fault?

[Evangela]

Why? Why do you have shit latency? I see EU friends play on NA servers just fine, the only issue they have is the time zone, so why are you so different?

Is it really SE's fault for not locating in Australia or is it someone else's fault?

Probably because of how the internet work there. Some countries don't have their own gateway and underwater cables that go straight from their place to Canada so if they play the game on NA server, their packets will be sent from AU to HK to US then to Canada, then the server send them back on the same routine.

Not really sure if it works like that though. Just a theory.

[CookieMonsta]

Why? Why do you have shit latency? I see EU friends play on NA servers just fine, the only issue they have is the time zone, so why are you so different?

Is it really SE's fault for not locating in Australia or is it someone else's fault?

I'll rephrase what I said earlier:

"Its nothing to do with internet speed, its the geography. Most Australian cities are East coast and very south. This is a lot of distance to cover even for undersea fibre optic cables to japan. And as a double whammy, Aus doesn't have a big enough online population to warrant local servers (also good luck with the shitty Aus hosting prices). Ideally, there should be an Oceanic server located in Singapore which is almost at the centre of the oceanic population, best compromise of acceptable latency for Aussies, pinoys, malaysians etc etc"

And you can't say "playing just fine" until you try to clear something like A3S with 200+ ping. There's a big difference between playable and pleasant. Believe me, the EU guys loved it when the EU datacentre got opened.