Important Information Regarding North American Data Center Relocation

Can pretty much guarantee the relocation will be to Las Vegas, NV at Switch. Would be pretty much idiocy not to since Vegas has multiple, redundant fiber lines branching out to the rest of the US. CenturyLink, Level3, Cox, and a few others.

Most datacenters look alike though. I'm in them almost every day for work, I've seen them from many many companies, and they all use the same floor tiles, and the good ones all have the same type of cable management runs above the racks.

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Originally Posted by Texa

It might be a contractual obligation that they don't directly disclose it.

That said, I wonder if this will hurt or help people play on NA severs in Australia or New Zealand? I guess there's no way to know for sure until it happens but Oceania players tend to get the short end of the stick fairly often already.

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I'm dreading this also, they don't seem to really care for the Oceanic region :( the lag is fairly horrendous already without using a VPN like WTFast. If it's any worse where I can't do endgame content I'll probably be moving to a JPN server.

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Originally Posted by Arksvalor

If it's any worse where I can't do endgame content I'll probably be moving to a JPN server.

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Can it get any worse?^^'

Montreal is already very far northeast on the continent. The distance to Australia and New Zealand will in all likelihood decrease, so the ping should decrease as well.

I doubt you'll get to see much of a decrease without VPNs however, because if VPNs are helping, it's usually not a distance issue as much as a routing issue.

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Originally Posted by NarikoStar

PLEASE KEEP IN MIND THIS IS SPECULATION BASED.

These are pictures referenced from the Sacramento Raging Wire base.

Raging Wire DID open a Texas Center at the end of April....

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Keeping your bold speculation quoted for obvious reasons.

Sacramento would be a horrible decision. Especially when I was stationed near their for 6 years and the issues we had. On top of it being geographically horrible for NA users as a whole.

If they opened a Texas Center end of April, it makes no sense unless SE coordinated with them over a year ago when they started working on the relocation project.

Again my opinion is speculation as well, with some personal xp. We will all find out the truth next week anyway.

Not disclosing it just makes no sense from any standpoint. As soon as it goes live and you see where the connection is going takes all of 10 seconds to see where the IP address is registered in ARIN

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Originally Posted by Canadane

People will likely figure out where the servers are as soon as they connect. It's not like you have exactly hidden the current servers locations. Why hide it now?

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internet terrorists? dunno maybe they dont want people hacking it or something

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Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth

Most datacenters look alike though. I'm in them almost every day for work, I've seen them from many many companies, and they all use the same floor tiles, and the good ones all have the same type of cable management runs above the racks.

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This, If you check out virtual tours of other datacenters you'll see a similar scheme as well. Regardless, still strongly hoping it's not in California.

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Originally Posted by Zojha

...Montreal is already very far northeast on the continent. The distance to Australia and New Zealand will in all likelihood decrease, so the ping should decrease as well. ...

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Well mostly EU players will be affected. Would be great if we could hear from the master himself on the location, and on the free transfer that I asked about.

Oh that's good wasn't sure on the specifics.

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Originally Posted by LVNeptune

Can pretty much guarantee the relocation will be to Las Vegas, NV at Switch.

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Do you work for Square Enix and are you involved in this relocation?

If not, sorry, but you're speculating as much as the rest of us.

If what NarikoStar says ends up being true EU gamers on NA server are gonna have a big jump on ping :/

Any chance that this will allow Aether and Primal to mix in DF and PF?

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Originally Posted by Vasala

Any chance that this will allow Aether and Primal to mix in DF and PF?

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Highly unlikely until Elemental, Mana and Gaia can do the same.

Does anyone know what the latency right now is between UK and Montreal? And what will it be roughly between UK and west coast?

It depends. Some in UK have 130, some have under 100 right now. And then, some of the servers that we tried to ping on the west coast were from 150-240. It really is uncertain.

Doing some web browsing I found this:

http://www.cloudping.info

I used to to test and I get a 60ping increase if the server moves west coast. From 130 to 190....

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Originally Posted by Mature

Does anyone know what the latency right now is between UK and Montreal? And what will it be roughly between UK and west coast?

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It really does depend on your ISP and what routing they use and even possibly the time of day. Best thing you can do is open a command prompt and then type:

ping 199.91.189.23

That's Sargatanas, but it's in the Montreal data centre so that's all that really matter. It'll do 4 pings and show you the average. Personally I'm getting 89ms, friends of mine on different ISPs gets ~95ms (not really much in it). West coast (if it even goes there) no way to really check as we don't know for sure where it is/what networks it'll be connected to so we'll just to have wait.

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Originally Posted by Mature

Doing some web browsing I found this:

http://www.cloudping.info

I used to to test and I get a 60ping increase if the server moves west coast. From 130 to 190....

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Nice page!

I would have from around 115 to 177 if they really are dumb and set servers at west coast! >.>;
Im REALLY afraid they will mess up. Im already playing the whole weekend like its the end of game! .-.

Only 12 hours before servers go down for the move. Whats your plans during the downtime?

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Originally Posted by Lexia

Only 12 hours before servers go down for the move. UIWhats your plans during the downtime?

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Pray

/10charact

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Originally Posted by Lexia

Only 12 hours before servers go down for the move. Whats your plans during the downtime?

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Doing overtime the whole next week, but at least I can take off when SB goes live in June and since the servers are down anyway, there's not much I am missing out on, right? lol What are your plans?

I don't even think we will hear about the location, would just have to trace the new servers and see where they ended up, but as I mentioned pages ago, I doubt it will be near or close to the west coast. I would welcome it since I live in CA, but out of experience I know that a move of gaming servers to CA wouldn't be the best decision, and before someone says it's ping related, that is not the reason but I don't wanna go completely off topic. We will just have to wait and see.

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Originally Posted by Lexia

Only 12 hours before servers go down for the move. Whats your plans during the downtime?

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Tomorrow is my birthday, I planned to play all day. I also have Tuesday off to play all day. This was planned months ago... who wants to work on their birthday.

Now I'm apparently going to read, or /shudder go outside.

I have D&D on Monday, so that's gonna be my evening, and on Tuesday, I'll probably be playing Persona 5 on my new PS4 Pro. :)

Really hope these changes don't mean people with bad internet won't be able to play the game =\

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Originally Posted by worldofneil

It really does depend on your ISP and what routing they use and even possibly the time of day. Best thing you can do is open a command prompt and then type:

ping 199.91.189.23

That's Sargatanas, but it's in the Montreal data centre so that's all that really matter. It'll do 4 pings and show you the average. Personally I'm getting 89ms, friends of mine on different ISPs gets ~95ms (not really much in it). West coast (if it even goes there) no way to really check as we don't know for sure where it is/what networks it'll be connected to so we'll just to have wait.

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anyone know how to ping ffxi servers? i wanna see something

Foxclon tweeted arriving in San Francisco so maybe as well as media tour, they are also there to watch over the move?

So west coast it is :-(

Hopefully this will finally be the end to Aether Data center's Random Error 90k's got annoying as *CENSORED* all last year while running any dungeon that at times just queing would crash me or entering a dungeon would.

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Originally Posted by Pixiehawk

Tomorrow is my birthday, I planned to play all day. I also have Tuesday off to play all day. This was planned months ago... who wants to work on their birthday.

Now I'm apparently going to read, or /shudder go outside.

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Happy Birthday! :D

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Originally Posted by Elkanah

Happy Birthday! :D

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Thanks. :)

Well its nice to see improvements, but does this mean servers/worlds like Cactuar are going to be offline till May 17th.....? :/

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Originally Posted by Ootarion

Well its nice to see improvements, but does this mean servers/worlds like Cactuar are going to be offline till May 17th.....? :/

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Well, since it says maint 12am PDT May 15 through 12am PDT May 17th, I'd say yes, the servers will be down until the 17th.

We've known this for at least a month now.

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Originally Posted by Ootarion

Well its nice to see improvements, but does this mean servers/worlds like Cactuar are going to be offline till May 17th.....? :/

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They are supposed to be back up at 12AM PDT, so more like the evening of the 16th depending on your timezone.

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Originally Posted by Daemic

They are supposed to be back up at 12AM PDT, so more like the evening of the 16th depending on your timezone.

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I am Eastern Time so thats 3am for me.

Confirmed, they're in Sacramento:
neolobby02.ffxiv.com has address 204.2.229.9
neolobby04.ffxiv.com has address 204.2.229.10

Where did you get that info from raikki

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Originally Posted by Mature

Where did you get that info from raikki

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The hostnames for the lobby servers are well-known and have been posted in these forums before so it's not a secret. I knew they'd have to update the records for them during maintenance at some point to point to the new servers, so I just checked periodically for them to change.

Cheers!

My ping gone from 111 to 189... Rip

rip EU players in the NA data center... :(
That explains why they didn't want to mention the location.
196 at best for me, 240 at worst...