Because posting is no longer possible in the StarCraft II beta forums (StarCraft II Beta Forum Closed http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?topicId=25170615347&sid=5000), we’ve created this thread for players in the Oceanic region to provide us with their traceroute information so that we can gauge your connection. This information is very important to us as it helps us provide you with better performance. Please read through this information carefully and reply here with your traceroute info.

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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

Please only perform this tracert and post your results if you're in Oceania. We're specifically looking for data of people connecting from the Oceanic region to the new Southeast Asia datacenter.

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Q u o t e:

Tracing route to asia.battle.net [211.233.0.79]

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Please use the IP provided in the original post. The Southeast Asia datacenter is not the same as asia.battle.net.

We appreciate everyone taking the time to provide us with their current network paths. Many of the results are showing good pathways and nice pings, as expected. But we're actively working with regional ISP’s to address connections that are not currently optimized. We need to have as much data as possible, so if you live in Oceania and haven't already, please perform a traceroute and post your results.

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Q u o t e:
Not only is there no comparable difference in latency, most of SEA won't be speaking English.
Blizzard just let us play on your US West servers.

(BTW, Optus seems to be having the worst latencies, this will disadvantage a lot of players as it is Australia's second largest ISP)

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In regards to some concerns over language barriers: the only version of the game being sold in Southeast Asia is the English version, and the majority of people are either fluent in English or are likely to speak English as a commonality.

But, as we stated regarding cross region support, it’s something we’re working to implement after the launch of the game and it will allow you to connect to other regions should you choose to do so; as I mentioned, we’ve taken steps and are continuing to work with local ISPs on ensuring Oceanic players have as fast as reliable a connection to our Southeast Asia datacenter as possible.