aussie ninja's

[Sylve]

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It has little do with Internet speeds.
It has pretty much everything to do with distance and routes. Convince SE to put some Servers in Australia and watch the problem vanish.
I have a line speed of 100/40 mbps (Yay pre-liberal NBN), and i still get spiky latency to the servers, the most likely cause of this is bad routing between myself and the server.

People like you just need to understand that you DO NOT have a direct, one piece line from your PC to the Server. You're bouncing your signal through dozens if not hundreds of nodes to get the server. And if any one of those nodes buggers up for any reason whatsoever, congrats on your lag spike.

[Amiantos]

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One of my friends in the AU plays WoW on a NA server and is able to raid just fine. Where as he quit 14 because he couldn't do jack shit because of latency issues after he hit 50 when playing on a NA server. SE chose the half assed route and always has done so with their MMO's on making the accessible to people in terms of this. They chose to make end game a version of Jump Rope and expected people to have top tier connection while they funnel their shit through a half assed tier connection.