Why is my routing going from Chicago> NY > seattle????

[Snow_Princess]

6-9
6 25 ms 28 ms 39 ms static-76-73-191-224.knology.net [76.73.191.224]
7 46 ms 153 ms 54 ms dynamic-75-76-35-10.knology.net [75.76.35.10]
8 52 ms 45 ms 48 ms static-75-76-84-231.knology.net [75.76.84.231]
9 44 ms 48 ms 58 ms dynamic-75-76-35-105.knology.net [75.76.35.105]


NTT:
10 56 ms 68 ms 59 ms ae-53.r08.nycmny01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.194.81]
11 44 ms 58 ms 48 ms ae-3.r24.nycmny01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.5.61]
12 84 ms 82 ms 97 ms ae-2.r20.sttlwa01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.4.13]
13 90 ms 89 ms 88 ms ae-0.r21.sttlwa01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.2.54]
14 104 ms 99 ms * ae-3.r23.snjsca04.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.3.124]
15 104 ms 109 ms 119 ms ae-45.r01.snjsca04.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.3.175]
16 115 ms 109 ms 107 ms ae-1.r00.scrmca02.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.7.31]
17 113 ms 109 ms 118 ms xe-0-1-0-1-1.r00.scrmca02.us.ce.gin.ntt.net [129.250.195.46]
18 197 ms 100 ms 111 ms 204.2.229.234
19 106 ms 106 ms 102 ms 204.2.229.9

it causes too much lag, and semi frequent d/cs, menus appear slow, been trying to progress though my ISP but I figured something can be done here as well? why is it being routed like that? I do not have lag issues/ping for ffxi like I do here. ( to be clear, i live in the MAIN CITY PROPER of Chicago, not a suburb.)

I am sorry but your new server location was a bad pick.

[HyoMinPark]

Routing is determined by your ISP, not by SE or their servers.

[Lambdafish]

It wanted an American road trip.

(Also blame your ISP)

[Culfinrandir]

Routing is determined by your ISP, not by SE or their servers.

Not necessarily. I connect from the UK & also go via the Seattle hub. It is possible to assign a 'route' to particular services when desired & it appears that SE have requested the backbone company they've paired with to use their data lines exclusively (NTT in this case). All the hops to the FFXIV servers changed, for me, to NTT after the NA Datacentre move. Before the move I'd never encountered NTT in my traces, yet now even the London hop is NTT.