Perth and Tonberry?

[ShizumiNeko]

If you're getting ~250ms ping to Tonberry from Perth, then your ISP is probably routing you to Sydney and then to Japan.

I'm in the South West of WA and get ~160ms pinging 124.150.157.30 and ~200ms to the server (measured with the resource monitor while ingame,) but I'm with Internode (who are apparently good with routing) or ~140ms-180ms while using Battleping to one of their servers in Japan (number 4.)

You could try making a character on any available JP server and testing your ping with the Windows resource monitor (opened from the bottom of the performance tab in Task Manager) while ingame, and compare that to what you get while using free trials of some of the tunneling services.

Is there any way to stop the ISP from going to Sydney and then to Japan? With your MS do you get any AOE lag?

[00Serval]

I don't think there's really anything you can do besides contact them regarding the route your traffic takes to Japan or use a tunneling service with their own, more optimised routes; I'm far from an expert on the subject, though.

I've found AoE avoidance to be very forgiving with my ping, but I've only just started playing again after leaving in 2.1 (because of the lag I experienced on the NA datacentre...) so I haven't got to any of the more difficult content.

In regards to making a character on Tonberry, all the servers on the JP data centres should give you the exact same results, so you don't have to wait for it to be available to test ping values. If you do want to make a new character there instead of transferring your current one, you could either try early in the morning or wait until tomorrow's maintenance (2pm to 6pm for +8 timezones) and check to see if the servers come back up early and try then.

[scYtheShark]

I don't think there's really anything you can do besides contact them regarding the route your traffic takes to Japan or use a tunneling service with their own, more optimised routes

VPN Service like Pingzapper fixes that