Perth and Tonberry?

[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.

[ShizumiNeko]

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.

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

[slml320]

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

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

[ShizumiNeko]

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.

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?

[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; 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.

[scYtheShark]

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

VPN Service like Pingzapper fixes that