Square Enix - PLEASE READ

[rog]

The perma solution would be to move the servers to Texas.
An area like San Antonio to Austin has no weather, no nothing. No tornados, no earthquakes, no ...... anything. Hardly even rain. Central-South Texas is immune to weather effects, and taxes, it's where a lot of companies HQs are, including Microsoft Xbox. (North Texas gets snow, South texas gets rain).
And, Texas has incredibly fast internet, it's where U-Verse launched. Plus, it's halfway between east and west coast.

Looking at the wiki page for U-verse, it looks like their best plan is 3 mbps up? That isn't even close to usable, and it sure as hell is not fast.

Fyi, you can get 1 gbps up/down for under $100/month in japan.

[Sureal]

3mbs is not usable?

wow, spoiled much? i had to play on dialup for about 3 months, so trust me, 3mbs is MORE than enough

and unless your seeding for torrents, 3mbs is more than enough for pretty much anyone

[rog]

3mbs is not usable?

wow, spoiled much? i had to play on dialup for about 3 months, so trust me, 3mbs is MORE than enough

and unless your seeding for torrents, 3mbs is more than enough for pretty much anyone

You seriously think 3 mbps is good enough to run ffxi's servers, with upwards of 50k+ connected at once? That'd be 61 BITS per second per user. No, that is not even close to usable.

A single 1 gbps connection wouldn't even be enough.

As far as personal use, i've got 5 mbps up myself, and no, it's really not enough. Even when i'm not seeding torrents, i easily cap that out, and wish i had more. If i had the money, i'd definitely pay the extra $50/month ($100/mo total) it'd cost me to upgrade to 100/15. Which still wouldn't be enough for me.

[Dale]

Seriously? You want them to move the servers half way across the world, and then back again in a week or two? Really?

Rog, please...people fly back and forth between japan and california on almost a daily basis - square could easily move the hardware to their headquarters in california if they needed to. BUT - i was fooled by a friend of mine that services had been suspended till the the middle of May, so i was somewhat the victim of a cruel prank

[Dale]

How would you move them? airport is destroyed, and the last time I looked boats were upside down. The last thing they're worried about is moving servers. lol

Topdogg, most of japan is still perfectly intact, and there are many functional airports through-out the country. Let's not exagerate shall we.

[rog]

Rog, please...people fly back and forth between japan and california on almost a daily basis - square could easily move the hardware to their headquarters in california if they needed to.

Oh right, because if people can easily get from japan to California and back, then CLEARLY they can easily move hundreds (thousands? i dunno) of servers there, set them up, find an isp willing to provide them a dedicated 1 gbps+ line, installed same day, and canceled 1-2 weeks later, set the servers up, get them running, and then pack them up a week later, and fly them back to japan.

Sure, sounds plausible.

[Sureal]

You seriously think 3 mbps is good enough to run ffxi's servers, with upwards of 50k+ connected at once? That'd be 61 BITS per second per user. No, that is not even close to usable.

A single 1 gbps connection wouldn't even be enough.

As far as personal use, i've got 5 mbps up myself, and no, it's really not enough. Even when i'm not seeding torrents, i easily cap that out, and wish i had more. If i had the money, i'd definitely pay the extra $50/month ($100/mo total) it'd cost me to upgrade to 100/15. Which still wouldn't be enough for me.

sorry, my fault, i read that as personal game, didnt connect it to servers, disregard my previous comment, having a brain fart day

[Dale]

Oh right, because if people can easily get from japan to California and back, then CLEARLY they can easily move hundreds (thousands? i dunno) of servers there, set them up, find an isp willing to provide them a dedicated 1 gbps+ line, installed same day, and canceled 1-2 weeks later, set the servers up, get them running, and then pack them up a week later, and fly them back to japan.

Sure, sounds plausible.

Well Rog, if it's only a week then you have a point - but like I said, i was a victim of a prank and was under the impression the suspension of services would last well into May.

But I still think Square could make the move if they needed to without too much hassle - but if it's still just a week i agree, better to just wait it out.

[Rambus]

Really tired of these threads.... I was shocked the servers where running on the day of the quake and 2 days after. they have plants in trouble so everything not important got shut down.

why are people shocked SE shut the game down? if a word wide disaster that did not affect you personally would you insist them to move their servers to the moon?
Btw I googled to try to spell disaster and what do you think the first hit was?

[Dale]

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This is a forum dedicated to FF11. If you have a problem with people discussing ways to play the game perhaps you should simply refrain from visiting forums about the game.

And I sure hope no earthquake every hits half the people on this forum, cause if they were ever to experience a real crisis they would probably resort to eating each other in some altered state of extreme raging hysteria they are so quick to turn on each other lol