I figured I would reach out to users of this forum to gather a better impression of the latencies obtainable in WoW for T&T players who are interested in choosing realms with lower latencies. To contribute please post your realm name, in-game latency, your location and ISP.
To start off, all US realms are hosted in four datacenters across the country. Their locations are:
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Dallas, Texas
- Los Angeles, California
- Seattle, Washington
These servers will not respond to ICMP echoes but traceroutes can illustrate expected latencies. To contribute please post your traceroutes to these datacenters.
BOSTON Distance from Trinidad: ~2,260 miles
12.130.0.174
12.130.0.170
DALLAS Distance from Trinidad: ~2,720 miles
63.241.192.58
63.241.192.62
63.241.192.114
63.241.192.118
63.241.192.122
| | 63.241.192.126
63.241.192.154
63.241.192.158
63.241.193.10
63.241.193.14 |
LOS ANGELES Distance from Trinidad: ~3,900 miles
12.129.193.242
12.129.193.246
Many hops and high latency. We will eliminate these servers. T&T users should not expect comfortable latencies with realms hosted at this datacenter.
SEATTLE Distance from Trinidad: ~4,320 miles
63.251.160.18
63.251.160.19
63.251.160.82
63.251.160.83
Many hops and high latency. We will eliminate these servers. T&T users should not expect comfortable latencies with realms hosted at this datacenter.
--------------------------------------------------------------------Did a bit of testing on Flow's cable broadband in south Trinidad. On this connection the Dallas datacenter shows lowest hops (14-15) and best ping times (~65ms).
The following are reports from all PvE realms belonging to the Dallas datacenter starting with those which share Trinidad's eastern time zone and prioritizing those with lower hop counts (determining that more hops are likely to introduce more latency). Note, the numbers that follow realm IP addresses are hop count and average ping times, respectively.
EASTERN (8 servers)Medivh
Zul'jin
Durotan
Lothar
Trollbane
Bloodhoo
Stormrage
Elune
| | 206.16.23.5
206.16.23.32
206.16.23.87
206.16.23.80
206.16.23.3
206.16.23.73
206.16.23.74
206.16.23.92
| | 16, 65
18, 64
18, 64
18, 65
18, 65
19, 65
19, 66
19, 66
|
CENTRAL (one hour behind Trinidad (GMT - 5), 9 servers)Garona
Kael'thas
Alexstrasza
Alleria
Whisperwind
Madoran
Ravencrest
Blackhand
Hellscream
| | 63.241.255.12
63.241.255.113
63.241.255.82
63.241.255.77
63.241.255.87
206.16.23.77
63.241.255.46
63.241.255.115
63.241.255.55
| | 16, 64
16, 68
18, 65
18, 67
18, 67
19, 64
19, 65
19, 65
19, 67
|
PACIFIC (three hours behind Trinidad (GMT-7), 2 servers)Moonrunner
Baelgun
| | 63.241.255.9
63.241.255.5
| | 16, 65
19, 64
|
Obviously these results are highly variable and only serve to give a general impression of expected latencies. Overall, Garona, Medivh, Kael'thas and Moonrunner show the least hops. We will consider these four realms most attractive to players with connections similar to tested. A quick look at their realm data:
Server*
Garona
Medivh
Moonrunner
Kael'thas
| | Alliance
23,361 (72%)
20,226 (66%)
23,943 (77%)
5,225 (46%)
| | Horde
9,141 (28%)
10,579 (34%)
7,121 (23%)
6,014 (54%)
| | Ratio
2.1:1
1.6:1
1.9:1
1.6:1
| | Population
32,502
30,805
31,064
11,239
|
*source: warcraftrealms.comIt would appear that Medivh is the more preferable realm here in terms of population and faction balance. A level 1 Alliance char there maintains under 95ms in major cities. Would hope to weigh these results with those submitted by members here.
