That's an interesting challenge for us, because we want to make sure that the connectivity to the servers is such that the game experience is not impacted by a high-latency connection, and the latency between Australia and New Zealand to the servers in the US was such that we felt we would be able to deliver a better gaming experience by using their servers in south-east Asia.

Because posting is no longer possible in the StarCraft II beta forums (http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?to ... 7&sid=5000), we’ve created this thread for players in the Oceanic region to provide us with their traceroute information so that we can gauge your connection. This information is very important to us as it helps us provide you with better performance. Please read through this information carefully and reply here with your traceroute info.

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To help people trace to the correct location of the new Southeast Asia servers we have an IP and instructions that can be used to test your latency. We're hoping we can then use that to gauge the connection speeds more appropriately.

Please be aware that there will be timeouts for the last few hops, and that's normal. At that point you've already hit our datacenter, but the server information will stop being returned after a certain point for security reasons.

If you're utilizing tunneling we strongly recommend you disable it before tracing as the results may not represent the data path accurately.

Southeast Asia Battle.net Test IP address: 202.9.67.100


You can find instructions for performing a traceroute at: http://us.blizzard.com/support/article. ... leId=21140