Europe / German Server Ping Rates

[Arnulf]

We seem to be confusing latency and server performance here.  The original post was about latency, i.e. the time taken for a packet of data to make a round trip from your computer to Blizzard's server and back.  This is unaffected by how busy the server is and is measured by ping and the green/amber/red latency indicator.

Most of the symptoms grumbled about here - unresponsive mailboxes etc. - are because the server is busy, not because latency is high.
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The original poster complained about the current state of connectivity in Europe which adversely affects the latency in WOW. I've experienced this too. Last monday we had a terrible, horrible MC run. Where my latency never dropped under 800 ms. It also depends a bit on luck how your IP traffic is routed. I thought I could remedy the situation a bit by forcing a disconnect on my part and reestablishing a new connection in order to get a different IP address. This made things only worse. After that my latency indicator stayed red all the time with roundtrip times of 1500 ms or greater. This continued until around 10 p.m.

The funny thing is that others in my raid group told me over TS that they had a great connection and absolutely no problems.

Nothing we can do about it until these two boneheaded companies (Level 3 & Cogent) sort it out between themselves. Blizzard in this case is without fault.

-Arnulf