World Of Warcraft Latency Issue from Europe to US Servers

I just moved to Sweden from the United States and had been playing WoW there with a bunch of friends and I want to play from Sweden so I ordered 24Mbit Internet and so far I have it running at about 15MBit constantly...

I went out and bought a D-Link Dir 635 and it is working amazing so far...I am getting about 14Mbit anywhere in the house and am not having any trouble at all with any of my games like Counter Strike where I get about 5 ping in during the game...No problem with anything at all but...

When I play WoW I get about 500MS and it doesn't get any better..I tested different parts of the game and even on the oceanic servers I get terrible ping/ms.

Could this be an issue that can be resolved with changing some settings in my router? I'm pretty sure when I had it directly connected to the modem the ping/ms wasn't that bad at all...

Thanks for the help...Oh I did google this but their isn't a specific answer for it so I couldn't get help.


Oh and I have Dell's best Wireless Card..The new N network one.

 

Test to see if a direct connect will have lower lags. If so you may need to setup QoS and maybe port forwarding. Or do a DMZ to your NB when you play WoW. But remember to turn it back off because it's like a direct connect.

 

Okay I will test this shortly.

 

Yeah that is weird as that area of Europe has the best Data connections. I would try turning off the firewall as well as blizzard has a few settings you can change, but that is mostly for the blizzard downloader for patches and such and not gameplay.

 

Okay so I tested both wireless and connected directly to the router and I still get 400+MS in game.

Should I try port forwarding next?

 

Port forwarding wont solve the fact that theres a few thousand miles apart betwen you and the server on the other side of the Atlantic ocean.
Closer it is too you the less lag/latancy/delay you get.

Try playing on the European servers. Thats why they have the diffrent server locations to begin with: US,EU, Asian etc so you pick the one closer too you.

 

Well as you know if you read my post, I'm looking to play in the US servers because my friends play there...If you have ever played WoW...You would know that playing by yourself is pretty much pointless.

I tried earlier testing a European server but you have to buy a copy of their game if you have the US copy which is the situation I'm in. I tried make a free trial account and testing on Europe but that didn't work so I guess I'll just wait until Age Of Conan comes out and sell my level 70 Mage or something.

Which means upgrading my Desktop =)