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

[Akari_Theron]

Well seeing as how I live in a part of California that literally has the worst internet speeds in ALL of California I am happy about where it is being moved. Went from 107ms to 67ms with 5 less hops. All of this is good because ever since it rained in Cali about a month in a half ago, the game has been unplayable do to constant packetloss and Comcast does not give a crap. So at least now if I still get packetloss and spike should not last as long.

[SeraphicRadiance]

I think most of the high pings are due to the way your ISP routes your internet traffic. Seems like they like to take the longest route possible. So before going off the bandwagon and blaming SE, please check the way that your ISP routes your internet traffic.



But I do feel for the people who plays outside of the US that plays on the NA Servers. I feel that no matter where SE placed the Servers, it wouldn't of gotten any better for you.

That is reality for the US ISPs. Square Enix should have known this. The reality is that the ISPs give less of a crap than Square Enix does, and that's pretty sad.

And no amount of equipment is going to change this. So thus, I place all blame on Square Enix at this time for their ridiculous decision.

[Daemic]

My girlfriend lives in Canada and she just watched her ping go from 100 to 480.

Wait, the servers are back up?

Oh, just more speculation.

[Kallistra]

Wow seriously?? What province is Selli in though, if I may ask?

I am in Ontario and my ping is around 80-100 ms now

She's in Ontario as well, but she lives in a very small town and very far North. We knew the server relocation would probably be an increase for her, but I didn't think it would be that bad.

Wait, the servers are back up?

Oh, just more speculation.

It's not speculation when you can ping them.

[Jaxelyn]

Something I just noticed is my tracert is giving me a weird pathing because the IPs were in Cali earlier today and is now showing up in Michigan. Before anyone decides they need to unsub, give the internet a little bit of time to figure out what path it needs to be taking.

[Hestzhyen]

That is reality for the US ISPs. Square Enix should have known this. The reality is that the ISPs give less of a crap than Square Enix does, and that's pretty sad.

And no amount of equipment is going to change this. So thus, I place all blame on Square Enix at this time for their ridiculous decision.

I don't blame them at all for upgrading the servers. We're going to be seeing the benefits very soon with Stormblood. More capacity and power is not a bad thing at all.

I do not agree, however, with the radio silence about where the new servers will be until we find out for ourselves. They could have avoided a lot of panic and ill-will by disclosing the state or general area in the initial announcement. However, we will have to wait and see. The quality of the new hardware and the infrastructure immediately surrounding it could well outweigh the increased distance for many people.

[Kethic]

I ran simultaneous pings from computers on the East Coast (Philadelphia) and West Coast (Seattle) to 204.2.229.9. Seattle averaged 35ms, Philadelphia averaged 80ms. If your ping is huge, or becomes huge, I suspect there may be something else going on.

[Daemic]

Never mind, I see they are pingable now. I'm 1500 miles from Sacramento and I get 47ms to both. I don't think it's going to be as bad as people think.

[-BlueGreen-]

Personally I'm seeing about an 8-10ms reduction, so from 60-70ms to 52-60ms. I'm on a fiber connection so my speeds and latency tend to be pretty consistent to my ISP, but despite all that the servers have felt rather laggy for the last 6-12 months, especially during peak hours even if my own connection showed no noticeable difference in latency. My best guess is that the data center was previously overloaded, and the details SE have given us for part of the reason to move the data center was just that. Since my ping is apparently not changing much, I might be in a good position to get a feel for if the new data center is better capable of hosting the game and has less latency due to not being overloaded.

In other words, a ping of 10ms wouldn't mean much if the server was overloaded and took 200ms just to process the input, so if the cause of lag for most people was related to server overloading, they might notice improved gameplay even with increased ping times.

[Sida]

Well seeing as how I live in a part of California that literally has the worst internet speeds in ALL of California I am happy about where it is being moved. Went from 107ms to 67ms with 5 less hops. All of this is good because ever since it rained in Cali about a month in a half ago, the game has been unplayable do to constant packetloss and Comcast does not give a crap. So at least now if I still get packetloss and spike should not last as long.

.. .. you mean to say, such a thing as a rain has an effect to your internet connection? While I couldn't have even imagined such a predicament, more so from supposedly developed country, I'm starting to understand the worries.