Perth and Tonberry?

Hello, I'm from Perth and I was looking to move over to a JP sever to try to get better MS (ping) and was wondering how much better it was over on these severs. I'm on Behemoth sever and my ms is around 297 to 318+ and I have issues with Boss AOE when even if I move I will still most likely get hit by it making some trials and dungeons quite hard to do with out dying. I've tried to ping the sever and got around 248 to 250

So I was just wondering if there was anyone from Perth that haves any info for if I did move over to a JP sever will I get getting something like 248 ping and will moving out of the way from AOE is possible ? Oh and if this makes any different my download speed is 113.30 mbps (can change) and upload speed is normally around 2.40 mbps

Thank you for reading my post and I hope you all have a great day.

Hey Haru! Syn here :P fancy meeting you here...

If you want to check your ping to the Tonberry Server, I'd suggest pulling out cmd and typing "ping 124.150.157.30" that should tell you what your latency to the server is.

You need a tunneling service, like Battleping or Pingzapper. One of these will probably solve the problem, if not switch to a JP server like Tonberry, although most likely need the service while playing on Tonberry as you are still a great distance from Japan. Good luck!

If you're getting ~250ms ping to Tonberry from Perth, then your ISP is probably routing you to Sydney and then to Japan.

I'm in the South West of WA and get ~160ms pinging 124.150.157.30 and ~200ms to the server (measured with the resource monitor while ingame,) but I'm with Internode (who are apparently good with routing) or ~140ms-180ms while using Battleping to one of their servers in Japan (number 4.)

You could try making a character on any available JP server and testing your ping with the Windows resource monitor (opened from the bottom of the performance tab in Task Manager) while ingame, and compare that to what you get while using free trials of some of the tunneling services.

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Originally Posted by scYtheShark

Hey Haru! Syn here :P fancy meeting you here...

If you want to check your ping to the Tonberry Server, I'd suggest pulling out cmd and typing "ping 124.150.157.30" that should tell you what your latency to the server is.

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Hello ^-^ I did that I get around 240ms to 250ms

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Originally Posted by 00Serval

If you're getting ~250ms ping to Tonberry from Perth, then your ISP is probably routing you to Sydney and then to Japan.

I'm in the South West of WA and get ~160ms pinging 124.150.157.30 and ~200ms to the server (measured with the resource monitor while ingame,) but I'm with Internode (who are apparently good with routing) or ~140ms-180ms while using Battleping to one of their servers in Japan (number 4.)

You could try making a character on any available JP server and testing your ping with the Windows resource monitor (opened from the bottom of the performance tab in Task Manager) while ingame, and compare that to what you get while using free trials of some of the tunneling services.

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I've been trying to make one on the sever but I have not seen it open up yet.

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Originally Posted by 00Serval

If you're getting ~250ms ping to Tonberry from Perth, then your ISP is probably routing you to Sydney and then to Japan.

I'm in the South West of WA and get ~160ms pinging 124.150.157.30 and ~200ms to the server (measured with the resource monitor while ingame,) but I'm with Internode (who are apparently good with routing) or ~140ms-180ms while using Battleping to one of their servers in Japan (number 4.)

You could try making a character on any available JP server and testing your ping with the Windows resource monitor (opened from the bottom of the performance tab in Task Manager) while ingame, and compare that to what you get while using free trials of some of the tunneling services.

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Is there any way to stop the ISP from going to Sydney and then to Japan? With your MS do you get any AOE lag?

I don't think there's really anything you can do besides contact them regarding the route your traffic takes to Japan or use a tunneling service with their own, more optimised routes; I'm far from an expert on the subject, though.

I've found AoE avoidance to be very forgiving with my ping, but I've only just started playing again after leaving in 2.1 (because of the lag I experienced on the NA datacentre...) so I haven't got to any of the more difficult content.

In regards to making a character on Tonberry, all the servers on the JP data centres should give you the exact same results, so you don't have to wait for it to be available to test ping values. If you do want to make a new character there instead of transferring your current one, you could either try early in the morning or wait until tomorrow's maintenance (2pm to 6pm for +8 timezones) and check to see if the servers come back up early and try then.

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Originally Posted by 00Serval

I don't think there's really anything you can do besides contact them regarding the route your traffic takes to Japan or use a tunneling service with their own, more optimised routes

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VPN Service like Pingzapper fixes that :)

What is the best VPN and whats if different between them I'm been trying out WTFast (trail) for the past day and it droped my ms by over 130 (the pay verson says it can drop it more) But is there a better one out there ?

Different people will tell different answers. Try them out yourself and see how it goes...
130 is definitely not bad at all

If you are with TPG moving to tonberry wont help. I'm in sydney and ping 250+ on tpg. Otherwise battleping, pingzpper, wtfast wtc tunnels help. most have freee trials

Hi, I'm from Perth too! I get 160ms without tunnel with iiNet/internode. The best tunnel you can get is if you set one up yourself using AWS EC2 or a similar service. Also, routing to Singapore will get you the best pings.

I've used WTFast, Pingzapper, Battleping in that order.
-WTFast is good. but unreliable.. their server sometime goes down for extended period.
-Pingzapper is OKish (I only know this until I changed to Battleping). It's not too stable, meaning will get latency spikes occasionally.
-Battleping. For me this is the BEST. It's stable, rare or no spikes.

I play ninja, so it's really very noticeable for me which one helps me the best on reducing latency. Battleping consistently make me cast my mudra smoothly and ultra fast everytime compared to the other 2. (It might be due to location though, I live in Malaysia). Pricing is the same for zapper and battleping, WTFast is more expensive. Try their trial period and you would feel the difference.

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Originally Posted by ShizumiNeko

I've been trying to make one on the sever but I have not seen it open up yet.

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tonberry is the best place for aussies to play I've sadly tied myself to the n/a server with my alt account houses etc!! and I'm running cable now so its been better.. but tonberry is still the best!! a lot of japanese only partys and it can be hard to communicate with the god awful translate options..but there are a lot of aussies/ english speaking players:) ..if your having trouble getting in just do a server transfer or I've found giving away my trade secrets 6am -9am aest is prob the best time to try to sneak in and start a new character.. thats said i did read they stopped new character creation for tonberry from early release but i cannot 100% confirm this!!

P.S on a side note if you can almost sort of dodge fights like titan and levi .. you will rock with 160 ms ping!! i have time to light a ciggy and do my hair between aoes:)