Best Server from the Middle East?
I play from the United Arab Emirates. I chose the EU servers on the assumption I'd have better ping. My lag can still get pretty bad. I've jumped on US servers and the connectivity seems better, but ...
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Eh. I'd recommend the US servers. As far as I know the traffic from the Arabic peninsula has an exit to the T0 global network which goes straight to the US, and all the servers are in the US anyway (I think SWTOR utilizes some sort of ping redemption system to ease the connection from Europe to the US-based European servers).
Edit: Actually, I just found out the EU servers are in Dublin. If I recall the routing correctly, the US servers are better anyway though for your purpose - especially the West Coast servers should give a better ping/latency rate.
The best tool I have found to measure potential connectivity for the gaming servers is honestly www.speedtest.net , takes seconds to do correctly and can give you a good idea as to your connection speeds up and down and fair idea if it would be stable.
Here is a guide that contains other tools aswell, but for your needs, just scroll down to the speedtest.net section and follow that guide.
- Spoiler@DBWoodynz The toolbar - at the right of the strikethrough, that weird symbol
Also @DBWoodynz - Speedtest is good for testing your nominal speed, but not the speed relative to the server.
@CountMercutio - visit the link @DBWoodynz gave. It should help your determine your relative speed, ping and path. As Kindajenin explicitly states in http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=368299 and as @DBWoodynz states in the linked message - your game has to be open and running. Run the Netstat and the Pingpath - once for an European server and once for an American server. The lower the time it needed, the better. <100 ms is pretty good. 100-200 ms you'll notice some lag but not too much. 300+, you'll need to start worrying. 500-1000, you can play but it will hickup a lot. 1000+ (1 sec+), 'prepare for unforeseen consequences' (AKA severe lag and the game will functionally be unplayable)
Thanks. I've had connectivity at 200ms to both EU and US servers, but recently have had EU server at 300ms regularly. I went and checked a US server and it was "down" to 200ms, which is what prompted the question. I'll try these tools over a week or two. Thanks for the replies.
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