I don't play WoW...but I work for an ISP.

[Josh123]

I'm likely much closer to my server than you are to yours. When I was on Black Dragonflight I averaged around 120ms.

I chose my current server specifically for it's low latency. If you're ever considering transferring, roll a level 1 on your target and run to your capital city during peak hours. Dance on the mailboxes, run around /flirting with high level players, and generally goof around while keeping an eye on your latency. That'll give you a decent~ish idea of what you're in for if you choose to make that your new home.




Having said that - There's a couple things you can do: The first is you can also set your network to not group packets, and instead send them immediately as they're generated. If you don't know how, hit up Curse and DL/Run the "Leatrix Latency Fix" - It's a script which will set that for you. That can reduce latency.

The second: Some firewalls will allow you to prioritize traffic by application. There's also an app called "Net Balancer" which will do that - The free version only does a couple programs, but more than enough to do things like set WoW for Priority and your bittorrent to low.

I really wish we could xfer heirlooms because I would move because Kalecgos blows. The only thing I've done to try to improve my latency is the TCPackfrequency edit in the registry.

 

[Ichinisan]

Yeah...the update changed the "signature" of the packets somehow and it was no longer prioritized correctly. I guessed that's what was happening (another argument for Net Neutrality). There was nothing the NOC engineers could do until there was a way to speak with Blizzard reps.

It's resolved now.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Ehh ... I've had lag in the past at times, It's almost never been ISP level issue for me. Usually it would be due to too much activity (using 100% of bandwidth on uploads & downloads, and not enough bandwidth left for the game), or blizzard issues... but it's been a few weeks since I last played ... and I don't think I've had any lag issues since I've reactivated my account (whenever the catacalysm came out)

 

[VirtualLarry]

I had something happen to my FIOS a couple of nights ago, seemed like an Internet router went down, and it took a few minutes to get re-routed. My MagicJack went half dead, and my internet streaming radio station conked out for a few minutes. These forums were still accessable, but when I rebooted MAgicJAck, it said to connect to the internet, and double-click. Closing and re-opening Firefox, it hung on like three sites, something about google-analytics not loading. Speedtest.net wouldn't load either.

Took a few hours to fully resolve.

 

[lord_emperor]

Los Angeles based WoW servers by any chance? I've had a problem since mid last year where the AT&T nodes there are dropping packets like crazy, they happen to be Blizzard's bandwidth provider.

If your ISP is big enough to have some clout please make some noise and get AT&T to shape up their operations.

 

[Craig234]

A few days ago, I had something happen for the first time, about 2/3 into a heroic everyone in the group got kicked out of the game, and logged back in ungrouped.

A petition had the GM say something generic about a lag problem.

There's also been intermittent lag especially in twilight highlands since Cataclysm, where you loot and nothing happens.

 

[Anubis]

There's also been intermittent lag especially in twilight highlands since Cataclysm, where you loot and nothing happens.

its actually only in TWHL, and its not lag the game will just freeze for liek 30 seconds ever 20 min or so its pretty funny.