Local iBurst WoW server?

Seen nothing in a while not here or the mygaming.

Hope it happens :)
 
For your info. There is no plans from Blizzard to host a official WoW servers in South Africa. So if you talking about illegal WoW emulated servers, I am afraid you will be in big trouble with Blizzard.
 
Hi all.

Product is chatting with Blizzard regarding local server. They are working on it.
 
could we get a bit more detail as to what is happening perhaps with reagrds to this ?

All well and good that People are Chatting to People. Does not tell us much to be Honest.

Thanks,
 
Come on guys.


I will not put any negotiations in danger. Information will be released through the channel from Product.

Thanks
 
EchoZA said:
@iBurst (Shaun Green) will this server be for iBurst customers only?
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I doubt that it will be for ONLY iBurst customers but perhaps cheeper/faster.

I'm assuming that if they get this right they will host it on their network, making it faster to their customers, don't forget that iBurst offers ADSL now as well.
 
Blizzard will never do anything like this, the very best South African WoW players can hope for is a optimized gateway through to their European servers. It would probably knock off 200 odd MS in our latency seeing as our current gateway is quite terrible at routing effectively.

I also highly doubt iGame has the hardware or software ready to handle it's own server. 2 years ago Blizzard upgraded 11 servers on the European network and it cost a total of $7 000 000 (est), will try find the blue post for citation here, assuming they all needed equal amounts of upgrading that's roughly $636 000 per server or R5 075 000. iBurst doesn't have that kind of money to drop on something that I doubt even 10 000 people in the country will use. Look at the Russian servers, only after the Russian player base exceeded 1 million subscribers did Blizzard put up Russian realms and I have a suspicion that was largely due to the huge language barrier both with the average player and in-game support.

It's a nice thought but something that we could never implement successfully nor maintain properly.
 
Hi guys.


No idea on how it will be achieved and through which channels.

I would hope that it become a joint venture between the big guys to put more punch behind the drive.
 
Odom said:
Blizzard will never do anything like this, the very best South African WoW players can hope for is a optimized gateway through to their European servers. It would probably knock off 200 odd MS in our latency seeing as our current gateway is quite terrible at routing effectively.
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How exactly would an optimised gateway reduce latency? Better packet switching? I was always under the impression that our terrible latency was to do with local connections the data had to go through before reaching the European servers. How much would something like this cost for Blizzard? I'm guessing quite a bit as the probably would have done it by now if it was just a matter of a few software tweaks.
 
Someone seems to be lying......

Clenching for straws? trying to get people to join up iBurst because they think this magical Blizzard Server that will make WoW latencies acceptable?

Yeah right - Mark this post - it won't happen in a week, 6 months, a year or even 3 - this thread will just die and everyone will forget - but only after a few WoW Addicts asked their mom to sign an iBurst contract because of some Rumor.

can you say "Sinking ship" ?
 
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iburst has been sinking ever since they decided to offer a R40 Broadband deal..

iburst :"sup we cant give you real internet cos we suck, but we can offer you this super special internet subscription that our infrastructure can totally support :) :) :) :)"
 
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Well at least Iburst is on here trying to make a difference. Stop bashing just for the sake of it. You guys will end up chasing away any supplier trying to help.
 
Sylas said:
How exactly would an optimised gateway reduce latency? Better packet switching? I was always under the impression that our terrible latency was to do with local connections the data had to go through before reaching the European servers. How much would something like this cost for Blizzard? I'm guessing quite a bit as the probably would have done it by now if it was just a matter of a few software tweaks.
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http://www.answers.com/topic/optical-fiber#Index_of_refraction

The index of refraction is a way of measuring the speed of light in a material. Light travels fastest in a vacuum, such as outer space. The actual speed of light in a vacuum is about 300 million meters (186 thousand miles) per second. Index of refraction is calculated by dividing the speed of light in a vacuum by the speed of light in some other medium. The index of refraction of a vacuum is therefore 1, by definition. The typical value for the cladding of an optical fiber is 1.46. The core value is typically 1.48. The larger the index of refraction, the slower light travels in that medium. From this information, a good rule of thumb is that signal using optical fiber for communication will travel at around 200 million meters per second. Or to put it another way, to travel 1000 kilometres in fiber, the signal will take 5 milliseconds to propagate.

Assuming 1000KM takes 5 miliseconds or 0.005s to travel lets work out the time taken to travel between South Africa and the WoW EU Server hub in France.

Distance = 8295.12KM (This is a rough estimate of the distance between JHB and Paris)

Time taken = (8295.12/1000) *5 = 41.4756 milliseconds.

So ye I reckon the other 400ms odd I have is down to bad routing.

An optimized gateway would work as a direct peering server between us locally and the EU server hub. We would connect directly to a local server that would instead of routing the signal 5 or 6 times directly port it to the EU Server hub thus reducing latency. Essentially it would resolve both the local routing and international routing issues.

And as mentioned previously I highly doubt Blizzard would invest the time to do this, we're not a big enough market to warrant it and even if we were the cost of setting it up would probably put them off.
 
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Amida said:
Well at least Iburst is on here trying to make a difference. Stop bashing just for the sake of it. You guys will end up chasing away any supplier trying to help.
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i agree iburst has done a better(still not good) job this year. Watching youtube without hiccups at 4am ftw.Don't bother trying in the middle of the day though.

About the bashing.
That's the sole reason why quality of service is so crap in this country.No one has the balls to rage a little. Some of it might not be constructive, some of it will be.

I'm personally just tired of paying for a service that doesn't get delivered.

back on topic:
Don't even think about getting a locally based server. We just don't have the playerbase. Turkey is probably closer to getting servers then we are.

But that doesn't mean we cant aim for a peering server, which does make more sense.And that is what i think Iburst/iGame should push for.
 
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