Originally Posted by marioinfinity
I posted this somewhere else in a comment; but I believe that WoW has had some huge latency/fps issues over the last year.
|
Any latency that appears between your modem and the WoW servers is not a Blizzard issue. This is something your ISP needs to resolve as it would deal either directly with them or with one of their peering partners.
However, if the issue was indeed a latency issue with the WoW server or with their ISP (AT&T), it would affect everyone on the server (quite possibly all the servers in your battlegroup) and not just 1 or a few people. When this happens, it's extremely apparent because you can go to the Customer Service forum and new posts and threads about latency on a specific server/battlegroup will be filling up faster than you can refresh the browser. Often times their forum gets hit so hard with visits that the forums themselves cannot load.
One thing that a lot of people don't realize is that all the game servers are not located in one place. There are 4 data centers located in different places throughout the US. It depends on your physical location, the location of the servers data center (the server you play on), and what's happening
in between those two locations that will have an impact on your latency. For example, I play on the Nesingwary server, which it's data center is located in Seattle Washington. I live about 25 minutes away from there... my latency in game sits between 12ms and 15ms. If I log into one of the Dallas servers, obviously my latency is going to shoot up to triple digit numbers because I'm physically located farther away.
Check the WoWWiki to see where your server is located.
US realm list:
http://www.wowwiki.com/US_realm_list_by_datacenter
EU realm list:
http://www.wowwiki.com/EU_English_Realms_Info
If you live in the US but play on an EU server, or if you live in EU and play on a US server. you're going to have latency. Not really any way around this.
If you think that the server you play on has latency issues, check the Customer Service forums (not the Tech Support forums as they do not deal with the servers) for posts. The CSR's will relay information to the server technicians.
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/bo...Id=11112&sid=1
If you think the latency is on your end, post in the Tech Support forums so they can help you narrow down the issue.
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/bo...&forumId=11110
Edit: As for the FPS differences between new servers and old servers... weather the server is old or new makes no difference. There is only one graphic engine and they all use it. That engine got it's largest overhaul in the WoTLK pre patch. The only real differences between newer servers and older ones is perhaps stability.