Quote Originally Posted by Zozma View Post
Yeah I do know what proxy trace means. But my regular tracert gives me a jump to Dallas, Texas before jumping to Japan. I clearly just wanted to simplify the idea with a picture for forum users with less network knowledge.

I'd imagne Australian players route via singapore or something then going to Japan.
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Lag is no excuse for not being able to do content, it just adds some slight extra challenge and kills some of the game experience.
When I look at gameplay from JP players on youtube, my gaming experience is nowhere close as smooth as their. I dont expect SE to move servers or anything like that just maybe turn more stuff client based or something. There is a fine line where you decide what goes server side and whats client side.
I assume that your using a router that has some configurable settings, have you tried setting a static route in it's routing table to give yourself a minimal hop count, it might cut out some of those 250+ms hops your getting. You may be able to do this in windows too but having it in the hardware might make it a little faster.