How long to get a mac code?

Applied for it last night, just wondered how long it will take.
Can't play css on my favorite servers because of high pings with Zen.

Have you spoken to TS about your pings? I get great ping with Zen! I was going to move to Be* but having good pings here put me off!!! Didn't want to risk it

I have bad pings to the 4u network and Killer Creation servers
especially during the evening when matches are on
this is at 2045
1 <1 ms <1 ms
2 34 ms 35 ms 36 ms gandhi-dsl1.wh.zen.net.uk [62.3.83.5]
3 52 ms 35 ms 35 ms gandhi-dsl1.wh.zen.net.uk [62.3.80.229]
4 35 ms 35 ms 35 ms 193.189.130.26
5 114 ms 112 ms 112 ms 194.117.136.217
6 113 ms 111 ms 114 ms 194.117.136.178
7 117 ms 116 ms 119 ms 194.117.136.150
8 130 ms 121 ms 119 ms 194.117.136.166
9 126 ms 125 ms 123 ms tele2-gw4.telewest.net [194.117.136.197]
10 119 ms 119 ms 116 ms telewest.transit.as25369.net [194.117.147.66]
11 120 ms 121 ms 121 ms sov-r1-rtr1.4u.net.uk [217.146.81.254]
12 126 ms 128 ms 130 ms Service.alpha-networks.co.uk [217.146.93.31]

and this at 1530

Tracing route to Service.alpha-networks.co.uk [217.146.93.31]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms my.router [192.168.1.1]
2 33 ms 34 ms 34 ms gandhi-dsl1.wh.zen.net.uk [62.3.83.5]
3 34 ms 34 ms 33 ms bolzano-ge-0-0-1-3.wh.zen.net.uk [62.3.80.229]
4 32 ms 35 ms 33 ms 193.189.130.26
5 42 ms 42 ms 44 ms 194.117.136.217
6 42 ms 42 ms 42 ms 194.117.136.178
7 42 ms 42 ms 43 ms 194.117.136.150
8 43 ms 43 ms 42 ms 194.117.136.166
9 43 ms 44 ms 42 ms tele2-gw4.telewest.net [194.117.136.197]
10 44 ms 41 ms 41 ms telewest.transit.as25369.net [194.117.147.66]
11 42 ms 42 ms 41 ms sov-r1-rtr1.4u.net.uk [217.146.81.254]
12 41 ms 41 ms 42 ms Service.alpha-networks.co.uk [217.146.93.31]

Trace complete.

Have you spoken to Zen about it though?

I just got-

Tracing route to Service.alpha-networks.co.uk [217.146.93.31]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 62 ms 99 ms 99 ms dsldevice.lan [192.168.1.254]
2 11 ms 11 ms 12 ms gauss-dsl.zen.net.uk [62.3.82.18]
3 12 ms 12 ms 12 ms lotze-ge-0-0-1-1.hq.zen.net.uk [62.3.80.129]
4 14 ms 12 ms 13 ms spinoza-ae1-0.hq.zen.net.uk [62.3.80.65]
5 13 ms 18 ms 13 ms bolzano-ae2-0.wh.zen.net.uk [62.3.80.53]
6 12 ms 12 ms 13 ms 193.189.130.26
7 21 ms 22 ms 21 ms 194.117.136.217
8 22 ms 21 ms 20 ms 194.117.136.178
9 * * * Request timed out.
10 90 ms 217 ms 22 ms 194.117.136.146
11 22 ms 20 ms 22 ms 194.117.136.162
12 21 ms 19 ms 19 ms telewest.transit.as25369.net [194.117.147.66]
13 24 ms 28 ms 20 ms sov-r1-rtr1.4u.net.uk [217.146.81.254]
14 27 ms 24 ms 23 ms Service.alpha-networks.co.uk [217.146.93.31]

Trace complete.

Pinging 217.146.93.31 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 217.146.93.31: bytes=32 time=21ms TTL=119
Reply from 217.146.93.31: bytes=32 time=22ms TTL=119
Reply from 217.146.93.31: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=119
Reply from 217.146.93.31: bytes=32 time=24ms TTL=119

Ping statistics for 217.146.93.31:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 18ms, Maximum = 24ms, Average = 21ms

Just out of interest, what do you get to our Dutch DCon server- 84.244.162.208

Pinging 84.244.162.208 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 84.244.162.208: bytes=32 time=26ms TTL=54
Reply from 84.244.162.208: bytes=32 time=26ms TTL=54
Reply from 84.244.162.208: bytes=32 time=27ms TTL=54
Reply from 84.244.162.208: bytes=32 time=30ms TTL=54

Ping statistics for 84.244.162.208:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 26ms, Maximum = 30ms, Average = 27ms

"Have you spoken to Zen about it though?"

Zen know about it. SkyFire brought it to the attention of the appropriate dept at Zen. Hopefully they're organising peering with the game server hosting network at Linx or Lonap right now.

TT