[Data Center USA] Ping increased. Report your changes here.

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Originally Posted by PuttyKat

everyone complaining it's not central seem to have forgotten about their Hawaiian and Alaskan brethren.

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The ideal thing would really have been east coast and west coast servers.

Good post to get straight to the heart of the issue.

It would be great if Square thinks about long term revenue by maintaining a decent game rather than short term cost cutting for a data centre which doesn't make geographical sense (even if we are only talking about NA players).

FFXIV performs well in several areas, but playerbase treatment is still lacking vs other games / developers

Then again, maybe I'm just an idealist wanting the best thing for everyone.

14 hops now.... coming from VA Beach side of the East Coast. Looking at this report as well as a couple friends who are on Level 3 data backbone when they tested. It seems the latency goes down once we get onto the servers backbone itself. Congestion? Something else? Who knows.

2 8 ms 7 ms 7 ms 10.2.208.1
3 8 ms 8 ms 8 ms 100.127.40.86
4 9 ms 9 ms 8 ms 172.22.51.66
5 13 ms 30 ms 14 ms ashbbprj02-ae2.0.rd.as.cox.net [68.1.4.139]
6 15 ms 15 ms 19 ms ae-26.a02.asbnva02.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.194.149]
7 89 ms 89 ms 90 ms ae-69.r05.asbnva02.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.5.191]
8 15 ms 14 ms 15 ms ae-8.r23.asbnva02.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.2.23]
9 88 ms 85 ms 87 ms ae-10.r22.snjsca04.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.6.237]
10 89 ms 90 ms 90 ms ae-19.r01.snjsca04.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.3.27]
11 92 ms 88 ms 91 ms ae-1.r00.scrmca02.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.7.31]
12 98 ms 89 ms 89 ms xe-0-1-0-1-1.r00.scrmca02.us.ce.gin.ntt.net [129.250.195.46]
13 90 ms 88 ms 89 ms 204.2.229.234
14 89 ms 90 ms 96 ms 204.2.229.106

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Originally Posted by Kurando

As an EU player on an NA world, I've had no major issues even after the server move. I really don't understand all this nonsense about how NA players suddenly can't weave their job skills because of the ping. Honestly, I've been weaving like nothing changed so if NA players much closer to the server (than EU ones on NA) are having issues, surely this is an internet problem and not a server one.

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Issue is, we were told centralized. Which in USA ever since the days of Diablo 1, Ultima Online etc... having "East and West" coast servers DID matter. So having one mid central as was told. Fine, we would all be in the middle.

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Originally Posted by Zigabar

I imagine he would say something similar to what he said in response to the Diadem outcry:

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Or.... he might say this. (And I post this of course in Jest <3 Yoshi)
http://i.imgur.com/99IoXc4.png?1

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Originally Posted by PuttyKat

everyone complaining it's not central seem to have forgotten about their Hawaiian and Alaskan brethren.

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Not everyone will have the best connection, but that shouldn't be the reason that people should be complacent with this.

Southern Illinois (right on Kentucky border)
Was about 100-120ms depending before.
70-75ms now, despite being about the same distance away (?).

Melbourne, Australia to Aether (Midgardsormr)

Before move: 260ms w/ WTFast.
After move: 275ms w/ WTFast, 200ms connecting normally.

Apparently my ISP routes better than WTFast now. /shrug

Went from 100 to 210, and 180-185 or so with a vpn

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Originally Posted by Silkerin

i will try with a vpn later, before the move i usually had 110 with a vpn, i wonder how it will go now tho, if it doesnt get better with a bit of time and if the vpn doesnt fix it much, i will just stop playing.

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What vpn you use and how you configurate it?

I currently reside in Miami,Florida . I had no idea what my ping was before the servers move but the game played just fine.

Now I check the ping after the server move...getting 115-120ms average. Game is still playable but Ninja mudras feel slightly laggy than before. Not exactly game breaking but it still feels like a small downgrade.