FFXIV ARR is 3 this year, Server upgrades?

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

That'll come as news to the infrastructure guys where I work since servers have a life-cycle just as desktops do.


The biggest networking issue SE has with Level 3 is not bandwidth it's latency. Upgrading their internal backbone for the servers dioes have an impact, but it won't help latency as long as Level 3 are out to lunch.

I mean, most of the servers I service are 3+ years old. I actually work on far fewer new ones than old ones. You'd be surprised on how many companies still have 10 year old servers doing mission critical work. What I meant was more in the sense of gaming desktops, where people upgrade hardware every 1-3 years depending on how into the best they are.

Also, your latency increases when you cap out your bandwidth. Hence people lag when watching netflix and why the stop downloading porn comment gets thrown out so much when people stop lagging.

The issues with Level3 arise when their networks are at bandwidth capacity, and after that, we get latency issues and dropped packets due to the overload on their infrastructure.