VPN etc allowed?

[harkinate]

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Yes, 300ms is fine for HTTP protocol, more specifically TCP, but when you start streaming videos during web browsing (which is extremely common these days) you'll start noticing pretty big differences.

I'm starting to wonder if you're confusing me for someone else in your posts. They suggest that I'm defending SE at every turn, when I never have - I've always thought that SE has been severely dropping the ball in terms of their server and netcode. If SE doesn't fix these issues (as they reportedly will in 2.1..I'll believe that when I see it), then when PvP is released it will be a horrendous experience.

[whilke]

Yes, 300ms is fine for HTTP protocol, more specifically TCP, but when you start streaming videos during web browsing (which is extremely common these days) you'll start noticing pretty big differences.

I'm starting to wonder if you're confusing me for someone else in your posts. They suggest that I'm defending SE at every turn, when I never have - I've always thought that SE has been severely dropping the ball in terms of their server and netcode. If SE doesn't fix these issues (as they reportedly will in 2.1..I'll believe that when I see it), then when PvP is released it will be a horrendous experience.

Your latency has nothing to do with streaming video quality, again, as long as you have a consistent connection. You can have a 5000ms ping, and your HD video streams will be just fine. The stream will start 2.5 seconds later then normal, but once it starts you'll get a constant stream of packets (all of which will be 2.5 seconds old from when they left the web server). Resulting in a video streaming experience that is exactly the same as if you had a 0ms ping.