Also waiting to see if I still have a day job by the end of August!!!
Anyhows, I have been digging into recent ping issues I have had with my ISP. In summary -
* Best ping for me = ~195
* Normal Range for me = 200-235
* Recent ranges = 260 - 500!
ouch!
Thought some may find the following info on how Aus players hit the BkW server (attached image)
And then from my ISP:
As to my recent higher pings, like a hole in the ground, it is being looked into!"What sort of performance can you expect in terms of delay/latency trying to get back from USA?
1.Referring to the Telstra website above about Telstra Endeavour cable; this is the fastest route available to USA and it heads out of Sydney, hits Hawaii before joining onto either the Asia America Gateway or Japan-US (South) cables for the final hop onto the west coast. The published expected latency is 228ms but it is possible to get <200ms on the trunks on that route. But getting around 230ms is well within spec for Aust to USA and back on any given day.
2.If you look at the Southern Cross website http://www.southerncrosscables.com/publ ... efault.cfm and add up the latency on their own map it is around ~85ms one way so the return path of a ping is going to get you around ~170ms under optimal conditions.
3.Verizon http://www.verizonbusiness.com/about/network/latency/ also publishes performance data for customers on their high-end business plans who pay for service level guarantees. There own statistics show mid-150's to low 160's ms which is helpful to understand what to expect crossing the pacific on their business traffic (I don't which specific cable/s they use though).
The Australia Japan Cable + Japan-US South path (up to Japan and across via Hawaii) is the longest route and will generally be the slowest link so you will usually get in the vicinity of 240ms. Internet traffic load balancing means that you may end up on this path some of the time hence why latency results can have marked differences.
So generally, around the 210ms is to be expected but in reality anywhere from 150ms on the shortest route onwards up to around 250ms could be experienced at any given time of day to the USA. This is simply because of the sheer distance the traffic has to traverse to travel there-and-back.
Speedtest/Ping results to servers in USA are fairly meaningless as they can't tell you where your latency is occurring and whether it is within Telstra’s control and within acceptable performance parameters I’ve mentioned above."
