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Post by
bendeguztv
Hello everyone!
I'm new to WoW, just about to start playing, but I have a question. I read about all the latency issues caused by playing on a realm with datacenter far from the player. So my question is: I live in the Tampa Bay area; should I pick a realm from the New York or Chicago datacenter?
Thanks in advance and have a great weekend!
Post by
Myrroddin
That shouldn't be an issue for you, regardless of which server you pick. Cities in North America (USA, Mexico and Canada) should get about the same ping, or close enough that it won't matter.
Don't pick an Asian datacenter, unless you have a specific reason why.
What you can try is
http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info13581-LeatrixLatencyFix.html
, will reduce data package acknowledgements from a 1:2 ratio to 1:1, thus reducing your latency. There are other tips and tricks you can do, but that gets into hacking Windows.
If you play on a Mac, still check out that link, as there are instructions. The program is totally safe, and easily installed and uninstalled.
Post by
bendeguztv
Thank you for your help!
Post by
Jkpman
Hello everyone!
I'm new to WoW, just about to start playing, but I have a question. I read about all the latency issues caused by playing on a realm with datacenter far from the player. So my question is: I live in the Tampa Bay area; should I pick a realm from the New York or Chicago datacenter?
Thanks in advance and have a great weekend!
It depends on your connection really
I play on the US realms from the UK on a PST server and have no issues.
My connection is pretty average, 50k
Post by
slippycheeze
I'm new to WoW, just about to start playing, but I have a question. I read about all the latency issues caused by playing on a realm with datacenter far from the player. So my question is: I live in the Tampa Bay area; should I pick a realm from the New York or Chicago datacenter?
You don't have too much to worry about; you won't really feel latency of about 200ms too much, and
as the research shows
, you have somewhere between 40 and 80ms for data to get from the server to you before you start hurting on that front.
Given that you are going to be somewhere between 20ms and 50ms average latency on a wired connection (eg: Ethernet cable on your machine, non-wireless ISP), plus 10-20ms if you use a standard wireless network instead of Ethernet cable, you are actually pretty safely on the limit of noticing.
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