Internet Connection in Japan

[Deletedaccount1]

I have 2 questions that I hope some of you could help me with.

I've been moving back and forth from the US and Japan for a while for my job, I actively play in Japan and the connection seems fine for online games but I'm usually forced to play on west coast servers or preferably Oceania/ SEA servers (I mostly play Dota 2 right now which is incredibly convenient with changing servers). Keep in mind that Japan doesn't have any servers for almost all online games.



Thats my current connection in Tokyo, keep in mind that the ping its connecting to a city in eastern Russia because Ookla doesn't have/can't connect to any servers in Japan.

Now while my download and upload speed are undoubtedly very high, I am going to start playing WoW again on a server that I believe is in Chicago or Texas (Illidan US) when WoD comes out and I'm wondering if the high ping is really going to affect my game experience or if I'll be able to compensate with my down/up speed? any insight would be appreciated (I also can't check for myself at the moment since I can't play on my laptop, by the time I can check it will be too late)

Now for the second question. I live in a US government compound and the internet is shared throughout by everyone who lives here, because of this the Japanese contractor who supplies the connection doesn't allow torrenting because of how much bandwidth it hogs and steals from everyone else. They don't take the rule lightly, if they detect a torrent open from your IP they will lock it and theres a 3 strike rule, after you go through each one you lose your internet privileges.

My question is that if I seed/download through a torrent while connected to a VPN, will they be able to detect that I'm using bit torrent? If anyone needs anymore details please ask.

Thanks.

[Cyrops]

I play in US east server (Eonar) from europe, with average ping of 180ms, in Europe servers I get ~80ms, but I can't honestly tell the difference. Things might change in WoD when they adjust server responsiveness, though.
You might feel a difference when playing competetively, though. But I doubt you do that :P

[tithian]

I've been raiding heroics at 150ms and it's perfectly ok. Of course this is inconceivable to some of my guildmates that are appauled by anything more that double digit latency, but unless you're a world first guild, your performance will be perfectly ok with 90-100ms.

[Deleted]

As long as you have a steady internet line, 20 MBPS and 1000 MBPS should give you the same MS. Speed doesn't decrease MS.
Think of it this way; A truck and a car are driving on a motorway, both of them will reach the destination at the same time, but the truck will carry much more cargo.

And unless you're doing PvP, everywhere below 300ms is playable.

[Deletedaccount1]

alright thanks guys its good to know, if it ever is an issue for whatever reason I could move my main to a west coast server but from what you've said so far I doubt that is necessary

[Woceip]

Not an expert, but odds are good that they will still see the unusual amount of usage and look closer at that. In my opinion you're better off leaving torrenting alone. If you really, truly, must has, you could always use up one of your strikes testing the matter.

[Deletedaccount1]

Not an expert, but odds are good that they will still see the unusual amount of usage and look closer at that. In my opinion you're better off leaving torrenting alone. If you really, truly, must has, you could always use up one of your strikes testing the matter.

yeah I think I'm going to have to unfortunately, but I can still watch Netflix and all that through a vpn which is nice. Torrenting is just the only way of getting things like porn in Japan because of censorship laws.

[Deleted]

My question is that if I seed/download through a torrent while connected to a VPN, will they be able to detect that I'm using bit torrent? If anyone needs anymore details please ask.

There are alternatives to torrents, There is FTP, Newsgroups, or even Mirc Channels.

You say your moving between US and Japan frequently.
if you are insistent on Torrenting, Perhaps look at getting some sort of seed box and using that to get whatever it is your looking for, the FTP then files down to you.

[Dalithe]

Torrenting is fine, WoW at 150 ms is fine. Been here in Japan for years

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But don't go extreme on the torrenting or they'll "tell you to do it less" haha

[Idrinkwhiterussians]

I was at a steady 240 ms when I lived in Kyoto. That was playing on a wireless connection and to a Chicago server. I was there for 2 years and had less disconnects than I do here in the states. Crazy.

Connections from Japan are fine for raiding/pve from my experience.