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[Malzian]

Can you tell me what site you used?
Using all kinds of DNS Lookup websites or even simple "ip location" websites I get different locations, mostly around Chicago/Detroit/Kentucky area, one in Colorado.
Haven't found anything that leads to California.

Yeah, same here. It's definitely Colorado. ARIN has that IP listed as a town in Colorado, not California.

https://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-...?s=204.2.229.9

Name NTT America, Inc.
Handle NTTAM-1
Street 8300 E Maplewood Ave.
Suite 400
City Greenwood Village
State/Province CO
Postal Code 80111
Country US
Registration Date 2005-12-08
Last Updated 2017-01-28
Comments

[AsahinaMyLove]

Yeah, same here. It's definitely Colorado. ARIN has that IP listed as a town in Colorado, not California.

https://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-...?s=204.2.229.9

Name NTT America, Inc.
Handle NTTAM-1
Street 8300 E Maplewood Ave.
Suite 400
City Greenwood Village
State/Province CO
Postal Code 80111
Country US
Registration Date 2005-12-08
Last Updated 2017-01-28
Comments

So WHAT? East Coast or Central US? Lol
I wish SE would say something so people dont freak out!

[Xiomara]

Yeah, same here. It's definitely Colorado. ARIN has that IP listed as a town in Colorado, not California.

GeoIP data is unreliable, after all the GeoIP data for my IP puts me in New Zealand, when I'm in Australia. If you actually ran a traceroute to one of the server IPs, you'll see it's going straight to the NTT data center in Sacramento, CA.

[Raikki]

Yeah, same here. It's definitely Colorado. ARIN has that IP listed as a town in Colorado, not California.

https://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-...?s=204.2.229.9

Name NTT America, Inc.
Handle NTTAM-1
Street 8300 E Maplewood Ave.
Suite 400
City Greenwood Village
State/Province CO
Postal Code 80111
Country US
Registration Date 2005-12-08
Last Updated 2017-01-28
Comments

That's a corporate address, not a datacenter. The corporate entity that the IP block is registered to is there, but the IPs can be used anywhere.

[TaurusGilgamesh]

Yeah, same here. It's definitely Colorado. ARIN has that IP listed as a town in Colorado, not California.

The problem is, you are using web services such as "whois" which won't give you accurate results. I saw Dallas, Denver, Kansas etc. while using those. What you wanna do is using CMD to /tracert neolobby02.ffxiv.com and neolobby04.ffxiv.com which gives you the new lobby IP, another IP which you can ping and also your new latency. The exact location of the new data center don't mean anything, it's the IP you want in order to check your latency.

One way to check if the result of a service might be right is to ping a testserver in that location and compare it with your traceroute results. And as my lobby ping is the same as the testserver sacramento ping, it's enough for me to take the revealed location as confirmation. At least it's clearly somewhere in that area.