[SLCNPezz]

Hi, I'm a fairly unknown Australian Protoss player who spends all of his time on the North American server. I sit at around 1200 points master at the moment, and would really like to give SEA GM a crack and play more tournaments within the server. However, as many may know, Optusnet has huge delay to the SEA server.

The point of the thread is this: Does anyone know of any improvement coming from Optus anytime soon? And if not, are there any fellow Australians out there who know how to reduce the amount of delay to the SEA server?

It's really a shame because I see that this community is so active and moving forward and I would really like to be a part of it.

Cheers!

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	iVnStinger:	I can't help but I can give you rep for being such a boss.
	TABottles:	I love you Pezzaperry you;re not unknown to me :D

[PiG]

Tgun recently swapped providers so he could both get enough bandwidth to stream and compete on SEA without as much delay! Possibly worth swapping? You know sc2 is worth it! :P

[[TA]LoSt]

If you're in Australia and swapping net providers is an option, I'd say definitely go with that. You'll probably get better ping to SEA on a new provider than you have now with optusnet -> NA.

[mOOnGLaDe]

i would suggest telstra cable if your area can get it, it has the best pings you can get to all servers bar europe and gives you the ability to stream 720p

optus is just a bag of fail

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nirvAnA:

Mr helpful!!!

[DrPhoenix]

You will pay through the ass for Telstra..

I'm getting Optus Cable hooked up tomorrow.. Better than nothing I guess >_<

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Eldrid:

supson? About time!

[iMSystem]

Originally Posted by mOOnGLaDe

i would suggest telstra cable if your area can get it, it has the best pings you can get to all servers bar europe and gives you the ability to stream 720p

optus is just a bag of fail

This, it is a bit expensive, but not too bad if you get your home phone with it!

I'm waiting for the installer man to show up...

[SLCNPezz]

Unfortunately I live at my parents so that's not a possibility haha :P

Damn this is really frustrating. Wireless is also an issue, but I'm working on getting my router plugged into my computer maybe that will help with ping.

[Mayo]

Originally Posted by pezzaperry

Unfortunately I live at my parents so that's not a possibility haha :P

Damn this is really frustrating. Wireless is also an issue, but I'm working on getting my router plugged into my computer maybe that will help with ping.

Google "Ethernet over power" and use that

[nGenLight]

Omg its pezza-constantly-bragging-on-ba-forums-perry.

Jokes bro, how are you?

SEA community is so much more friendlier and closer.

Got Telstra myself - Good to SEA/Korea bad to NA
Optus - Good to NA bad to SEA/KR

[[TA]LoSt]

I'm with telstra atm, kinda lucky I guess that my parents have it linked up with everything as like one bulk package to reduce costs. It's definitely worth it though, should try convince your parents

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nGenLight:

Shutup Lost, have some rep

[Sturok]

i have never had internet with the phone companies.. family was with iinet.. and i stuck with this for years then with internode.. and now iinet has bought out internode.. there you go..

have overall been happy with the more internet only companies.. there pricing.. and their service.
I have stuck with ADSL2+ services where i could (12 months on ADSL1 :|)
and i had a phone line with iinet for a while.. and am now on naked with internode.. (but its really iinet? i dunno hasn't changed my bill yet)

But am not a hardcore gamer everyday like i wish i was.. i only play starcraft once a week if that.. and watch other people play on streams the other 6 days

[dippa]

or you could move to tasmania and get the NBN (god knows the korean community that's gonna spring up there in a few years will)

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TABottles:

WHAT IS THIS? PLEASE EXPLAIN?

[Xver]

Try iinet? I'm on exetel (using iinet's line) and it's working fine with NA and SEA. But i reckon there are better ISP out there that can minimize all lags.

[SLCNPezz]

Hmm it's a real shame but I think my family is really locked in with Optus which sucks. Telstra sounds too expensive, iinet sounds good though, what about TPG? And hey light haha ^_^ I thought you quit sc2?

Also just to get a better sense of community in Melbourne - are there any local events I should know of? I would love to meet up with and grind some games out with a few people. Or possibly LAN tournaments?

[QEDMazaire]

hihi,

i found this thread on team liquid but you run the risk of getting banned, i guess if you are a tech savvy guy, it might be worth a shot if changing providers is not an option. i know too well the pain of the optus lagggggggggggg.


http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/view...opic_id=267518

[DeNile]

I have Optus cable and I don't seem to have any problems lag wise

[Malice]

I'm currently on Optus. I use a VPN to get better connection to SEA, I'm currently using VPNSecure. You need to pay for it, but it'll drop your ping down to around 280 on sea, which is tolerable.

[Crixx]

I used to be with Optusnet, horrid unplayable pings on SEA. Moved out, switched to TPG ADSL2+ and have NO problems with latency whatsoever on either server.

Using a VPN is a good idea, alternatively a tunneling service would work (almost the same thing). The cheapest available is WoWTunnels (http://www.wowtunnels.com/), who have a server located in Singapore to connect to. Even an aussie one might help, anything to reroute the connection off of the default Optusnet route (i'm purely assuming that I know how the interwebs works here by the way, i'm probably 90% wrong). Hopefully that'd fix up latency issues, trial it and find out I suppose.

Oh and if you have access to some kind of proxy server (e.g. university server), that would probably work too. Even though it's an extra step to get data to the end server, it STILL shits on Optus.

[TADivinity]

I too am one of the Telstra cable people. Good on SEA, and decent on KR & WEST NA (You know if your opponent is East NA because you will be lagging :P)

I actually had an Optus employee knock on my door last week telling me they had installed Fiber Optic cable into my street (I think it was this). He showed me that download speeds with them would be up to 80mbps, with a 500gb cap - as opposed to my current Telstra ~30-35mbps and 100gb cap, AND for a cheaper price. He even offered a comparable Foxtel plan, and free switch-over.

My parents were in NZ at the time, and I walked away thinking 'Awesome, will definitely convince them when they get home'. Then I thought of SC2. My precious SC2. And then thought of all those people on SC2SEA.com bitching about Optus. So I quickly went an put the pamphlet he gave me in the bin to make sure my parents would never learn of these upgrades :P.

...However I have really been wondering whether this 80mbps would make up for the delay at all with SEA??

Anyhoo...This ad is currently floating on this thread as I type this:

[SLCNPezz]

dodo it is..haha

I'll look into VPN once I get my ethernet installed thanks !