Can you move the NA servers from Canada to the US?

[Chiramu]

OP, what about Canadian players? You do realise OP that you are shitting on every Canadian by suggesting something so selfish.

The USA is not far from Canada, you are NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOURS. What is your problem OP?

[Xoriam]

Honestly if I was living in the USA i'd be perfectly fine with exactly where the servers are at. The ping even to europe is not so bad.

People using PC.
Run-
Regedit-
Hkey local machine
system
current control set
services
tcpip
parameters
inferfaces
click on the folders inside of interfaces untill you find one with the file on the right side which has the dhcp ip adress of 192.168.1.x or whatever ip addresses your router gives out.

inside of the area on the right there. right click and create new dword 32
name it TcpAckFrequency
make sure its just like that with capitals.
right click the new file after renaming it and modify. change the 0 to a 1 and make sure it reads hexidecimal. push ok
right click in the empty space again and create another new dword 32
name it TCPNoDelay
make sure it's just like that with capitals
right click the new file after renaming it and modify, change the 0 to a 1 and make sure it reads hexidecimal. push ok
close regedit
restart PC
enjoy games with 50% less ping

what this does is changes an old TCPIP protocol that for some reason is still put into windows nowadays, which was originally created for slower lines such as 56k to load websites in chunks.
its definatly not ideal for gaming or highspeed internet and causes higher latency inside of games.

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Just a word of caution about tinkering with the Nagle Algorithm... in some cases it can slow down network performance. This can increase your ACK traffic--you are removing a default 200ms delay in a check/balance routine used for congestion control. Under some circumstances, it can cause some periodic flooding and collisions on networks, depending on the topology and such. It's mostly a tweak applied in server environments... in fact, I think it's ignored in Win8 now with all the auto-tuning that goes on.

Should be no harm in trying it... just make sure to note the settings so you can undo them if you run into strange network behavior afterwards.

replying with quote since i've reached daily limit.

But this is only true if you're using Dial up, or speeds that are nearly as slow as that.
You will not encounter any issues with this.
Only scenario in which it "COULD" and this is highly emphasized as a very very insanely small probabilty, is if you're running off of a hotspot from a cellphone.
All you have to do is delete those 2 files to revert to the original state.


for other people who don't know much about this, it is esentially the "leatrix fix"

[Fyrebrand]

I live about a 2 hours drive away from Montreal, and the latency I get is astounding. I don't think it's the server location that is the problem, OP.

[Raist]

Just a word of caution about tinkering with the Nagle Algorithm... in some cases it can slow down network performance. This can increase your ACK traffic--you are removing a default 200ms delay in a check/balance routine used for congestion control. Under some circumstances, it can cause some periodic flooding and collisions on networks, depending on the topology and such. It's mostly a tweak applied in server environments... in fact, I think it's ignored in Win8 now with all the auto-tuning that goes on.

Should be no harm in trying it... just make sure to note the settings so you can undo them if you run into strange network behavior afterwards.

[RakaMaimhov]

What we really need to be asking Squeenix to be doing for us is to build us an entire new internet.

[JillyBean]

The Chaos datacenter is labelled as the datacenter for European players when you are selecting one. All servers under that banner are "EU" servers.

Ahh thanks for the clarification /blush

Server nightmares mounted for me. 2/3 of my FC is UK/EU, but we are mostly Legacy. ^^

[whoopeeragon]

Here's a neat tool to help demonstrate what Kinseykins and I have recently touched base on:

http://www.akamai.com/html/technology/dataviz2.html

Pick your starting and ending destinations and see the projected differences in ping between generic routing and Akamai's more optimized routes.

I played around with this for awhile. I live in Sydney AUS, so either way I'll be screwed linking to JP or NA servers, but I tested it.

Funnily enough? Any connections I made to US had at least 20+% packet loss. Chicago is probably the best at 22% loss. Washington DC takes the cake at 66% (wtf?).

But connecting to Montreal? 0.35% packet loss. Sure, I have an UGLY latency (314ms) but I can live with it. I can't handle packet loss though. I think I'll take the servers where they currently are over wherever you propose in the US to be.

EDIT: To Tokyo, by public net, I have a latency of 286ms...but 49% packet loss. Yea, I think I may stick to NA servers for awhile.

[Anapingofness]

o.o; So... I'm just gonna drop this in here since some people appear confused about North America vs United States.



and



also

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America

I hope this helps!

Therefore the data centers can stay where they are.
As for the US, it needs to get with the program and get better internet as a whole. The ISPs overcharge like crazy for exceptionally sh!tty internet. -_-;

[Stihllodeing]

Post #38 made me giggle after reading the whole thread.

[Magis]

An insider network engineer explained to me that the level 3 provider in Montreal is either being paid by SE or our ISPs, or both, and that is the heart of the dilemma. Neither SE or the oligopoly ISPs want to admit to being the client of some discount level 3 provider.

Probably Rogers or Bell, both pieces of shit.