Finally EU servers yay!

[LalaRu]

Goodbye Cogent

...
13 27 ms 26 ms 37 ms 62-101-124-73.fastres.net [62.101.124.73]
14 28 ms 27 ms 28 ms te0-6-0-2.rcr21.mil01.atlas.cogentco.com [149.6.
152.209]
15 38 ms 35 ms 34 ms be2314.ccr21.mrs01.atlas.cogentco.com [130.117.5
0.93]
16 46 ms 46 ms 46 ms be2236.ccr41.par01.atlas.cogentco.com [130.117.1
.157]
17 53 ms 53 ms 53 ms be2497.ccr41.lon13.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.39
.65]
18 60 ms 59 ms 60 ms be2391.ccr21.lpl01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.39
.150]
19 129 ms 130 ms 129 ms be2384.ccr21.ymq02.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.44
.137]
...

[FyrmurlFloerasksyn]

I don't get it. Did you transfer to an eu server or something?

[Evtrai]

I assume he means that EU servers are closer to Europe now instead of being all the way to Canada? idk

[FyrmurlFloerasksyn]

I'm sure there would be plenty of posts about this on reddit/here if that were the case.

[MaethusXion]

I'm pretty sure true EU servers aren't going to be here until at least 3.0...

[LalaRu]

Yep, happy we get them. And 3.0 just outside our doors. Wasn't it said in live talk of them implemented for 3.0?

[razz]

They only said they want to move them. They still don't know when this will happen or where the new EU server location will be.
So I guess it will be after 3.0 (with 3.0 being around april/may)

[Squa11_Leonhart]

hopefully eu servers are new servers and not moving existing servers.

moving existing servers simply wouldn't work, you've already got a mixed selection of US and transpacific players on the Eu servers who will not want to move away from their friends.... unless of course SE does the smart thing and sets up a GW2 style mega server system.

[Sove92]

hopefully eu servers are new servers and not moving existing servers.

moving existing servers simply wouldn't work, you've already got a mixed selection of US and transpacific players on the Eu servers who will not want to move away from their friends.... unless of course SE does the smart thing and sets up a GW2 style mega server system.

Moving the existing servers would benefit almost everyone, there is no need for NA players to move away from them. The reason why at the end of my post.

Contrary to popular belief here, distance is actually not that much of a significant factor in latency, the number of hops is by far the most significant factor. With good routing, I can reach the current EU servers in 10 hops, which is not much. It took me 11 hops to reach a server in Italy, a country far closer to me than Canada. Distance is not a factor to how many hops it takes, the network infrastructure is a factor. I don't see the servers being in Europe doing much to your normal everyday latency, not to Europeans nor North Americans. Moving the servers closer is not the magical bullet that kills the latency issues, except that...

In this game's case, moving the servers to Europe means the players on those servers will not have to deal with the dreaded Level3 ever again. Level3 is the most common cause of unbearable lag and packet loss that affects a lot of players when it happens. The tcore1 in Paris is also sometimes suffering from congestion, but not as often as Level3. That big company here, Level 3 Communications, is who you can thank for the lag spikes you get during primetime. They seem to have no interest in upgrading their network capacity.

[razzgrizz3]

misleading topic title. go eat some nails op