Brit emigrating needs WoW advice!

Here is my experience (having moved back from the UK recently):

Firstly, in the UK I had 30-40 ms latency on the EU servers. This was with a normal BT adsl connection and using the "registry hack". Latency was approx 140ms without the hack.

Since coming to South Africa I have not been able to get a Telkom adsl connection (yet). I was planning to got for a 512k unshaped connection with a WebAfrica account. If you decide to go with a shaped connection (http priority) then use one of the many http tunnelling proxies out there (pingfu, gamemax etc).

I have had to go with a WiMax connection (Screamer not Telkom) and am getting 250-350ms latency atm. They bundle the account with the subscription so no need for an account from another ISP. I am hoping to improve this as currently the local ping is 110-130ms, which is higher than I expect.

I am easily able to run two Wow sessions on this connection (as long as nothing is downloading in the background).

Hope my experience helps ... and don't let the negative people change your opinion. South Africa is a developing country and by definition that means it isn't developed and you can't expect the same infrastructure as the UK :D

Enjoy life here in the sun ....
 
iBurst

Looks like my company are getting me iBurst wireless... do you know what the latency on this is like? Pretty poor?

And anyone know if you can share an iBurst connection easily?
 
Latencies are about 600-700ms if the weather holds...

Sharing it between computers on the same network, yes. no other way though =/
 
timgaul said:
You can pay through your nose hear you still ain't getting less than 250ms for a few minutes on a good day when Jupiter alines with Mars and there is a solar eclipse.
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Im on 4mb adsl unshaped and i get that at 3am :< otherwise it a stable 280ms :D Which is R1500 a month if i don't make phone calls, otherwise its R2000-R2500 :(
 
timgaul said:
You can pay through your nose hear you still ain't getting less than 250ms for a few minutes on a good day when Jupiter alines with Mars and there is a solar eclipse.
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I'm on 384 line with unshaped account and gamemax. I get a constant ~250ms. Sadly you will not get lower than that. It's the physical distance between us and the servers that generates that latency.
 
The registry hack doesn't work anymore. They have implemented it in patch 2.4 afaik
 
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