[Data Center USA] Ping increased. Report your changes here.

[Ama_Hamada]

All the whining from americans about it being on one coast or the other for better ping, and i'm just sitting here in Australia laughing at people whining over a ~40 ping increase.
News flash for you yanks, your servers host more than just 'muricans. It would make sense to place them on a coast so they can accommodate overseas players far better.

that said, i really hope it ends up as west coast. The ping drop we aussies would get would be amaaaaaaaazing. (Still a higher ping than whiny east coasters too)

I'll reply to this post, but the same reply could go to so many others.

Ping and tracert latency doesn't depend on physical location as much as you think. There is a raw distance component to transmission time of course, but what matters more is the number of hops that your packets take to get to and from the server. Fewer hops equal lower latency and lag. Fewer hops equates to better ping times and better tracert. We need to wait until the servers are completely operational and the routing for the new data center location propagated throughout the DNS server hierarchy. It will be far more revealing to run pings and tracert about 2 weeks from now when the servers have been up for a while.

The only reason I am worried is because the game is laggy as is at 40-50 ms. If the game was like normal? I shouldn't feel the effect of 40 ms to 100 ms. I am just hoping the server upgrade stops the 2 second delay for some things. Also I suspect everyone from Midwest to east coast had pings increased, I just do not see that benefiting more people then it harms. If they put it in the center, a lot of people would have decreased or same ping, not this help one group more, harm another.