12:00PM Logan Booker | The 2.3 update to Blizzard’s frightfully popular MMO World of Warcraft might have brought with it a
nasty case of the high pings.
While latency for the online RPG usually varies between 200-500ms for Australian players, the higher end of this spectrum has been getting more of a workout than usual, according to user reports over at Oz telecommunications and ISP news site
Whirlpool.
Adelaide-based ISP Internode believes the problem lies with
various changes Blizzard made to the protocols used by WoW to communicate between the client and server.
With Blizzard apparently lacking the motivation to address the problem, Internode has come up with its own solution, in the form of a proxy.
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