Australian and Kiwi players

Kathorlenn · April 2018

I personally am playing from New Zealand, I've really noticed the lag when it comes to ping. Do any other Australian or Kiwi players find ping to be much of an issue or at least limiting of what classes you play and what play style? I'm averaging 260-300 ping.

Bbsample197 · April 2018

im from SEA region, lets just say that i cant play veteran trials due to the fact that i have a massive 300ms-400ms ping

Banana · April 2018

Count yourself lucky. I get a variable 300-380 on a good day from middle of know where queensland. Ive attempted most stuff and weaving and pvp were the main problems. So to overcome I dont do much weaving and no PVP at all.

Pixel_Zealot · April 2018

South African here, minimum 200, usually about 260.

20Mb down fiber line.

SirBaldrick · April 2018

I am in NZ too and get about 300 ping most days.

jimijac0me · April 2018

o/ I run a guild of Aussie/Kiwis that beat our head PvPing every night!
Its not so bad during our evenings but US prime time can be tough!

Zoltan_117 · April 2018

This is the single worse trait about ESO. Literarly leaving me having to explain to friends why I still play the game and leaving tonnes of friends from wanting to ever touch it.

It's like playing in a competitive soccer league where there is only one top level division and you have a disability where your brain has a delay of half a second against players who have no such disability. Most techniques are out of the picture and you just chug along best that you can hoping that no one expects highly of you. In no respect other then pure love of the game would you continue, and others won't understand this.

350ms ping from Sydney Australia, cable or fibre doesn't make a difference.

Kathorlenn · April 2018

I've tried using WTFast, I'm using fibre as well, on a good day I may average 240ms. I'm playing from the Manawatu, New Zealand. Quite a rural city, I've played the game whilst living up in Auckland and got about 210-230ms with fibre but it's still extremely frustrating and restricting.

Sixty5 · April 2018

Kiwi here, 250ish ping. I've done pretty much everything.

I know a guy who is Western Aussie with 400 and he has done everything.

Kathorlenn · April 2018

Sixty5 wrote: »

Kiwi here, 250ish ping. I've done pretty much everything.

I know a guy who is Western Aussie with 400 and he has done everything.

That's unfortunate

Bhaal5 · April 2018

Also run a aussie/kiwi guild and this sorry is not a uncommon one unfortunately. An have seen plenty of oceanic based players just quit due to this 'unresolved' issue.

Goshua · April 2018

Picking 'erbs 250-300

PVP 300- 3 fiddy

DETHRONE 500+/-

DRAC (and herd of AD) 500+/-

Silly thing is, this an improvement over 3 or 4 months ago

Yamenstein · April 2018

Melbourne, Australia.
ISP: Telstra
Latency Range: 220-270
DL Speed: 55 Mbps
UL Speed: 5 Mbps
Telstra recently increased some speeds, to be honest it hasn't made any difference to my gaming experience when it comes to ESO. Numbers wise it feels like it has gotten worse ! I would say my previous range was between 220 to 250ish.

I also normally play after work, so anytime between 5pm to midnight, sometimes a bit later 1-2am, when possible.

Don't think NBN is going to make any difference to this.

Sigma957 · April 2018

From South Australia here and my ping usually sits around 290 (pc/na),sometimes it goes down to 260. In Cyrodiil (vivec) it normally around 310.

ajm1946 · April 2018

Lower Hutt, NZL

ISP: Spark

DL 44 mbps

UL 29.2 Mbps

Ping: 26 ms

Jitter: 16 ms

Wireless Broadband

Was having terrible latency and fps recently latency regular in 500 - 600 and fps down from 90-100 to 5-10 fps.
Was memory leak which I fixed by amending Ndu - Start from 2 to 4 now memory running at 60% playing ESO was running at 97-99% Have had no problems playing since making the amendment.

TheRealPotoroo · April 2018

290-370 from Melbourne. iinet. I haven't really investigated it but it's worse than when I was playing WoT on the NA server, that was more typically 280-300.

Ectheliontnacil · April 2018

It's weird. I know a South African and an Indian player and they're both among the best pvp magsorcs for PC EU. I know ping is limiting, but you can definitely still be successful with high ping

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DanteYoda · April 2018

Yes Bris Aus here the ping to NA has jumped to 330 for me no idea why.. Noticeable lag when opening containers and trying to loot,

abigfishy · April 2018

ajm1946 wrote: »

Lower Hutt, NZL

Was having terrible latency and fps recently latency regular in 500 - 600 and fps down from 90-100 to 5-10 fps.
Was memory leak which I fixed by amending Ndu - Start from 2 to 4 now memory running at 60% playing ESO was running at 97-99% Have had no problems playing since making the amendment.

This sounds exactly like me. Can you please explain what "Ndu - start 2 to 4" actually means?

Runefang · April 2018

I live just south of Sydney, run Battleping and have 250-300 ping. I can do vMA, vet trials etc no problem.

I don't PvP so can't speak to that.

carljokl · April 2018

I am based in London UK but play on the NA PS4 server (certainly not the only one). In spite of the geographic distance from the server I don't experience lag that would prevent me doing anything. That said central London will have big transatlantic data pipes.

ZOS may be stuck between a rock and a hard place on this. If they put a server in Oceania then the pings may drop but the server might not have enough players to properly support the content: PvP, Dungeons, Trials.

Someone could write an open letter to demand that they change physics to improve the speed of light.

Australia has less population than the UK but Japan is twice as populous and India and China are the most populous countries of all. I don't know if ESO is officially available there.

I have family in Western Australia and they complain internet latency is a problem in general.

AndyMac · April 2018

I live in Melbourne, Australia and I play on the NA server - my ping is around 300 in PVE.

I can clear vMA without too much issue apart from occasional WTH deaths - I find that mobs can jump around and AOE's can be instadeath sometimes- which I attribute to lag. I do vet Trials with an OS progression guild that runs for leader boards - again not too much problem.

I PVP regularly and find that lag effects me here . My ping is 300+ or more in Cyro and that, imo, is where you can start to get a serious impact on gameplay

Bar swap lag, weapons lag, skill lag - you name it - and that can create a lot of frustration sometimes. I still have a lot of fun in Cyro but I would enjoy it a lot more if not for the lag.

Goshua · April 2018

abigfishy wrote: »

ajm1946 wrote: »

Lower Hutt, NZL

Was having terrible latency and fps recently latency regular in 500 - 600 and fps down from 90-100 to 5-10 fps.
Was memory leak which I fixed by amending Ndu - Start from 2 to 4 now memory running at 60% playing ESO was running at 97-99% Have had no problems playing since making the amendment.

This sounds exactly like me. Can you please explain what "Ndu - start 2 to 4" actually means?

from an old article (Windows 10 upgrade)

After searching the web, I found that users of Windows 7 and 8.1 have experienced similar problems in the past and in most cases this appears to be a memory management leak problem related to the 'ndu' (Windows Network Data Usage Monitor). Amending the registry solved the problem by changing a setting (Start value) to 4 which disabled some part of the ndu.

Tandor · April 2018

It's unfortunate for the Australasian players, and they have my sympathy. In the absence of a local server (which I can understand ZOS not providing) I don't imagine there's a lot they can do to improve things other than to make sure that they are using a wired internet connection rather than a wireless one, and that they're running a clean machine with nothing else apart from a non-bloatware anti-virus program running in the background while playing (and with no other competing devices sharing the connection). If it were me I'd also be pretty active on my ISP's forums making sure that they're optimising things at their end and through the network, while also checking out other ISPs if that's an option.

Syrusthevirus187 · April 2018

Yep. It is what it is. Can play the game but not at any sort of competitive level. Just waiting for something better to come out on ps4.

Haquor · April 2018

Banana wrote: »

Count yourself lucky. I get a variable 300-380 on a good day from middle of know where queensland. Ive attempted most stuff and weaving and pvp were the main problems. So to overcome I dont do much weaving and no PVP at all.

Dude... sub 400 you can do everything. I get between 260 and 450 range normally. Do vet trial, pvp, farm vma. Whatever. Dont think that 300 - 380 should stop you playing any content. Pvp im ALWAYS over 350. And i do fine.

Betsararie · April 2018

I've played with a lot of 'em. Generally nice

GreenhaloX · April 2018

Good day, mates! Sorry to hear about the ping woes over there. No difference here in the US with PvP. Banging heads the same in any given evening or during 10 or more toons skirmishes or engagements. Not sure about the ping thing, but supposedly they said there are good things to come for PvP performance with Summerset. Not sure what it is, but.. we'll see..

Perhaps, it can improve performance over there as well.

yiasemi · April 2018

To give you guys more perspective, I play from Hong Kong. I find the EU server better. between 200-400 which allows me to do almost anything. I live in a small town on the coast with notoriously slow internet compared to the optic coverage in the city , I resort to my unlimited 4G phone hotspot now and again, but I have a more than decent PC and have no trouble most of the time despite upload and download speeds I last saw in 2002.

Lord_Eomer · April 2018

Bbsample197 wrote: »

im from SEA region, lets just say that i cant play veteran trials due to the fact that i have a massive 300ms-400ms ping

Veteran Trials are playable with 300ms - 400ms

Undefwun · April 2018

Sydney, Aussie-stan...

235-240 is the best I can get.

PvP 290-350, but it spikes in big keep battles.
It only seems to matter when up against good players.. against average players and potatoes I'm fine.

For PvE I can run anything, I haven't felt like it has held me back...

Your net connection doesn't really matter. My ADSL2 or a fibre connection due to our location. If you think of it like a highway... your highway might have 10 extra lanes (so more data/s), but it is still speed limited... so our pings suck regardless...