Lagg upon lagg upon lagg

[Conkers]

Shorter distance doesn't automatically mean fewer hops, or better performance from said hops or the cabling used between them. People need to think twice before stating things like this.

Perhaps you should think twice... Does it for example mean more hops / better performance in all cases no, but on average it does, which is why companies go to the expense of separate data centres.

[Rillifane]

Perhaps you should think twice... Does it for example mean more hops in all cases no, but on average it does, which is why companies go to the expense of separate data centres.

Again you need to think again, based on how the ISPs decide to handle the data and how the routers themselves have been programmed, which routers are currently up/down, the latency of the cables at a given time of day CAN cause you to be sent through more hops and this happens on a regular basis.

[Conkers]

Again you need to think again, based on how the ISPs decide to handle the data and how the routers themselves have been programmed, which routers are currently up/down, the latency of the cables at a given time of day CAN cause you to be sent through more hops and this happens on a regular basis.

Erm, yes I know that, it is also irrelevant to the point that localised data centres give better performance and that the routing issues at peak times are just exacerbated by not having a separate European data centre.

[Rillifane]

Erm, yes I know that, it is also irrelevant to the point that localised data centres give better performance and that the routing issues at peak times are just exacerbated by not having a separate European data centre.

Not really at all, i've played many MMO's on both US and EU servers from within the EU. And here's a bit of information for you, having localised servers with the internet speeds we have access to now isn't a magical cure-all fix for most problems people encounter as most of the time it's how an individuals ISP is handling the data, the quality of the route being sent down which local or none local servers have no control over, or it's the coding of the servers themselves (which even if the server was in your back yard you would still get bad lag).