Please, for the love of god, send 1 person down here to witness what the internet connection is like from Australia to South East Asia.

Here is a tracert from Sydney to Thailand

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Q u o t e:
tracert thailand.prd.go.th

Tracing route to thailand.prd.go.th [203.146.251.182]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192-168-1-1.tpgi.com.au [192.168.1.1]
2 24 ms 24 ms 24 ms syd-pow-cla-bras7-lo-20.tpgi.com.au [10.20.20.11
3]
3 24 ms 24 ms 24 ms syd-pow-cla-csw2-vlan-1.tpgi.com.au [202.7.166.1
98]
4 24 ms 24 ms 24 ms syd-pow-cla-crt1-po-5.tpgi.com.au [202.7.162.13]

5 167 ms 167 ms 167 ms 66.162.129.177
6 183 ms 182 ms 183 ms peer-01-ge-0-0-0-0.snjs.twtelecom.net [66.192.24
2.190]
7 * 183 ms 195 ms Vlan1104.icore1.PDI-PaloAlto.as6*#%%@@*!*@%#*!#**%*@ [209.58.
116.10]
8 300 ms 291 ms 301 ms Vlan1284.icore1.TV2-Tokyo.as6*#%%@@*!*@%#*!#**%*@ [116.0.88.4
5]
9 364 ms 376 ms 363 ms Vlan1954.icore1.SVW-Singapore.as6*#%%@@*!*@%#*!#**%*@ [116.0.
88.22]
10 359 ms 359 ms 360 ms if-5-0-0-1127.core1.S2E-Singapore.as6*#%%@@*!*@%#*!#**%*@ [21
6.6.91.65]
11 462 ms 1107 ms 719 ms ix-6-0-4.core1.S2E-Singapore.as6*#%%@@*!*@%#*!#**%*@ [216.6.9
1.34]
12 479 ms 478 ms 479 ms 202.183.136.78
13 476 ms 476 ms 477 ms 202.183.136.141
14 481 ms 479 ms 480 ms 210.1.46.229
15 490 ms 489 ms 489 ms 210.1.3.226
16 492 ms 491 ms 491 ms 210.1.0.162
17 493 ms 494 ms 493 ms www.dbclicks.com [203.146.251.182]

Trace complete.

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Here is one to malaysia

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Q u o t e:
tracert www.webhosting.com.my

Tracing route to webhosting.com.my [202.190.203.160]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192-168-1-1.tpgi.com.au [192.168.1.1]
2 24 ms 23 ms 24 ms syd-pow-cla-bras7-lo-20.tpgi.com.au [10.20.20.1
3]
3 24 ms 25 ms 24 ms syd-pow-cla-csw2-vlan-1.tpgi.com.au [202.7.166.
98]
4 24 ms 24 ms 24 ms syd-pow-cla-crt1-po-5.tpgi.com.au [202.7.162.13

5 167 ms 168 ms 167 ms 66.162.129.177
6 188 ms 181 ms 184 ms peer-01-ge-0-0-0-0.snjs.twtelecom.net [66.192.2
2.190]
7 183 ms 182 ms 182 ms if-12-0-0-45.core4.SQN-SanJose.as6*#%%@@*!*@%#*!#**%*@ [216.
.30.29]
8 272 ms 276 ms 262 ms if-5-0-0.mcore5.LAA-LosAngeles.as6*#%%@@*!*@%#*!#**%*@ [209.
8.33.85]
9 191 ms 191 ms 190 ms if-0-0-0-1163.mcore3.LAA-LosAngeles.as6*#%%@@*!*@%#*!#**%*@
209.58.33.94]
10 191 ms 191 ms 190 ms ix-5-2-0.mcore3.LAA-LosAngeles.as6*#%%@@*!*@%#*!#**%*@ [216.
.61.18]
11 381 ms 381 ms 381 ms srp3-0.bkj3.jaring.my [61.6.2.194]
12 385 ms 385 ms 384 ms ge0-2-1-0.bkj95.jaring.my [61.6.162.195]
13 381 ms 381 ms 381 ms te3-0-0.bkj1.jaring.my [61.6.10.13]
14 381 ms 381 ms 382 ms EMG-WEB [202.190.203.160]

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Yes there are dedicated fibre optic links to Asia, but it seems like its faster even for the routers to choose the route of going from Australia to USA and back to Asia for their packets.
This is why Australia should not be part of the South East Asia. Geographical location is not an argument for region locking, especially when our packets have to travel over 20,000 miles (to USA and back to Asia), even though geographically it is only 4000 miles from Sydney to Singapore.

This is purely from a technical standpoint. Australian internet is crap. We are a big fat island isolated from much of the world and much of the international internet usage goes through the US because our telecommunication cables to other countries either doesn't exist or is garbage.

Please save the Australian SC2 players, we wish our internet was good enough to maintain a decent connection to South East Asia, but the truth is our internet is terrible. Let us play on the US servers, because all our traffic to Asia seems to be bouncing off there anyway

Here is some extra reading
http://www.news.com.au/technology/so-slow-australia-58th-for-internet-speed/story-e6frfro0-1225856662318

You can provide us with traceroute information here: Traceroute Test: Oceanic Players http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?topicId=25399742814&sid=3000

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To help people trace to the correct location of the new Southeast Asia servers we have an IP and instructions that can be used to test your latency. We're hoping we can then use that to gauge the connection speeds more appropriately.

Please be aware that there will be timeouts for the last few hops, and that's normal. At that point you've already hit our datacenter, but the server information will stop being returned after a certain point for security reasons.

If you're utilizing tunneling we strongly recommend you disable it before tracing as the results may not represent the data path accurately.

Southeast Asia Battle.net Test IP address: 202.9.67.100

You can find instructions for performing a traceroute at: http://us.blizzard.com/support/article.xml?locale=en_US&articleId=21140