battle.net issues

[Jarulf]

hey guys me and my mates wanted to have a flash back and play some diablo 1 together. We have all updated and can connect to battle.net. In the channel we all list 2 green bars but as soon as one of us creates a game and we try to connect it says " cannot connect latencey to user is to high" this also happens when i try to connect to games created by other users which are not my friends games. all my mates live in melbourne australia and are using the US west portal.

Any help would be great

thanx
        zfear
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The latency seen in chat is from you to the bnet chat servers (whichever you connect to, there are a few different portal to connect to). When you start a game, the latency that matters is between you and the other players in the game, which can be very different, since the game does not involve the chat servers. I would say that if two people both have good latency to the same chat server, they should most likely have good latency to each other as well- This does not seem to be your case though.

I can think of a few cases, you are using different ISPs, that for some reason have good connections to USA and the bnet portal there, but have crappy connections between themselves. Game connection, which I think is UDP packets on differnet ports, for some reason is handled worse by your (or intermediate) ISP (No idea if that is even a possibility).

For connection to other peoples games, you really don't know were they are located so the latency is hard to predict. Since you seem to have this problem to basically any game, there is a possibility it is some problem on your end with your ISP (or yourself and your computer for some reason). Do you manage to get into games at all? If not, perhaps there is some block on the way that your computer doesn't "see" in that it just send packets out but never get replies. I really am not as technically skilled so I can't help you more, it was just some thoughts.