EU Confirmed as 3rd Rate Customer

[Bloody]

My question is, how much will the ping really change (since the servers are still gonna be in the same continental region). I expect a minor increase as it is moving south, but unless it gets a few more relay points added in to the route, I don't think it will be going up that much.

[kattzkitti]

My question is, how much will the ping really change (since the servers are still gonna be in the same continental region). I expect a minor increase as it is moving south, but unless it gets a few more relay points added in to the route, I don't think it will be going up that much.

It's moving over 1,500 miles further away from the EU, with the network traffic now passing through the US infrastructure (which is garbage compared to the rest of the world, btw). There's going to be a very significant increase in EU player latency, and their gameplay will suffer for it.

As an NA player, I'm actually quite disappointed with how Squeenix is handling this.

[Nghthawk]

It's moving over 1,500 miles further away from the EU

As the location of the move has not being released to the public, please do tell us where this new NA Data Center is moving to with source to back up statement.

[Bloody]

It's moving over 1,500 miles further away from the EU, with the network traffic now passing through the US infrastructure (which is garbage compared to the rest of the world, btw). There's going to be a very significant increase in EU player latency, and their gameplay will suffer for it.

As an NA player, I'm actually quite disappointed with how Squeenix is handling this.

1) do you have a known site location to match that distance?

2) Um, there are some terribad locations in Canada for internet service... The U.S. infrastructure is nowhere near the worst, the problem tends to come from the American ISPs in my experience.

[Kosmos992k]

It's moving over 1,500 miles further away from the EU, with the network traffic now passing through the US infrastructure (which is garbage compared to the rest of the world, btw). There's going to be a very significant increase in EU player latency, and their gameplay will suffer for it.

As an NA player, I'm actually quite disappointed with how Squeenix is handling this.

There is very little certainty about increased latency, it depends on the routing and backbone segments. the latency to the current data center for many players is artificially high. In my case I ran tracert both from my home and from my office network, my office computer was some ridiculous number of ms faster than on my home network and the routes themselves were very, very different. The route from my office was much shorter in terms of hops.