04-07-2003, 02:18 AM
From all the other replies (1000ms+ ping??) I'd have to say something is wrong there.
I used to be on dialup and one of my play buddies still is. He gets consistenly around 400-450ms occasionally spiking up to 600-700. This is on USWest which is by far the largest realm AND we are both 10000 miles away (other side of the planet just about).
From my own personal experience I can tell you that anything > 500ms feels *sluggish*.
I'd like to see where the bottleneck is and try to improve it (i.e. bad modem or modem config, slow isp etc.)
If you could please run this command while you modem is idling:
(connected up to internet but not downloading/playing anything)
(for win2000/xp): start->run->cmd
(for win98): start->run->command
c:\> tracert xxxx.battle.net
where 'xxxx' is either east, west, europe or asia depending on your realm.
... and post the results here if you would.
Note 56k modem (TCP/IP connection) has an inherent latency of around 200ms between local end
(your computer) and the ISP's end.
The latency from local ISPs in my area and uswest are around 200ms so best ping for my area is around
400ms on 56k dialup.
I used to be on dialup and one of my play buddies still is. He gets consistenly around 400-450ms occasionally spiking up to 600-700. This is on USWest which is by far the largest realm AND we are both 10000 miles away (other side of the planet just about).
From my own personal experience I can tell you that anything > 500ms feels *sluggish*.
I'd like to see where the bottleneck is and try to improve it (i.e. bad modem or modem config, slow isp etc.)
If you could please run this command while you modem is idling:
(connected up to internet but not downloading/playing anything)
(for win2000/xp): start->run->cmd
(for win98): start->run->command
c:\> tracert xxxx.battle.net
where 'xxxx' is either east, west, europe or asia depending on your realm.
... and post the results here if you would.
Note 56k modem (TCP/IP connection) has an inherent latency of around 200ms between local end
(your computer) and the ISP's end.
The latency from local ISPs in my area and uswest are around 200ms so best ping for my area is around
400ms on 56k dialup.