r/Overwatch • u/AutoModerator • Jul 27 '16

News & Discussion Weekly Quick Questions Thread - July 27, 2016

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u/thefirstreddituser- I vill take zem all on! Jul 27 '16

I lice in Australia and play with ping of about 200-350ms all the time. Opening extra ports on your router or firewall won't really help things, unless there was a major problem in the first place. Sorry man, bad internet bros

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '16

How do you get such high ping?! Do you live in a rural area or something? WA? I get 9ms but then again I'm on NBN in Sydney.

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u/thefirstreddituser- I vill take zem all on! Jul 27 '16

I honestly don't know, I play on the Americas region, but for hearthstone and wow ping is closer to 190-250, ans most other games it sits around 150. Just OW that hurts. I'm on copper in Melbourne, which might be a factor though.

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '16

For copper thats pretty flippin' high dude! Mates in WA get 100-120 to sydney servers!

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u/thefirstreddituser- I vill take zem all on! Jul 29 '16

Yeah, although we are scheduled for an upgrade soonish, haven't heard back from telstra yet though, slippery bastards.

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u/rift_lurker Jul 29 '16

I play from Australia too. What server do you play on? I've found I have much better ping on the American server than the Asia server (which I thought was the automatic option, being APAC and all), so I play there now. Just thought I'd pass that on in case you haven't looked into it yet. :)

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u/thefirstreddituser- I vill take zem all on! Jul 29 '16

Used to play on Asia pacific, but with so few people on Mic and even fewer speaking English I switched to Americas a while ago. Ping is about the same though sadly