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

[FulhamTarheel]

I just logged out.

Was fighting the Cruise Chaser in Alexander. Died five times with NOTHING AROUND ME! I have never died in that fight before tonight. I live in NC, and I'm running speed test right now, and I have plenty of bandwidth and speed.

This is utter BS what they did. Last night, didn't have any issues. This time, running Dragoon on a fight that requires timing, I have no shot.

I'm so damn angry at this moment. I nearly threw my keyboard through my TV.

[Awful]

Atlantic Canada, went from 30ms to 150ms. Routing is awful.
Using WTFast or similar programs I drop to about 97ms with much better routing.

Just sucks essentially adding another $10 a month to my monthy sub. Especially with the USD to CAD exchange.

How far in Atlantic Canada do you live? I'm in Sydney and I went from 40 MS > 80 :S

[Ryel]

My ISP is the only one available in my area, I can't get anything else. I shouldn't have to pay for an alternate program either on top of a monthly sub for a game.

Isn't this exactly what many players on the West Coast, Oceania, and South America have had to do for the past 4 years?

[LittleChickenNugget]

Isn't this exactly what many players on the West Coast, Oceania, and South America have had to do for the past 4 years?

From what I'm reading, most of the people from the West coast talking about ping started out at 150 and, for the most part, went down from there. So..

Edit:

And no, no one should have to pay to have a better gaming experience. That should be up to the company we're PAYING for the game. They make enough money to have things more balanced.

[LittleChickenNugget]

Went from 150 to 430+.
Over on East Coast, FL.

[Mhaeric]

Meh, I went from 53ms to 61ms, and I live in Georgia, dont even notice the difference. I am trying to figure out how people's ping went from 50 to 175ms. Like explain please

It's simple geography. Georgia is very south compared to Montreal, so the relative distance to Montreal (1,969.5 km) and Sacramento (3,971.9 km) from Georgia is relatively less than someone who lives in Northeast U.S. Let's take someone who lives in NYC as an example. NYC to Montreal (598.5 km) and Sacramento (4,536.8 km) are significantly farther apart. I.e. your distance roughly doubled, but other's distance potentially went up almost by an entire magnitude so they will see a larger increase than you.

[Archvile78]

From 6 to 98

hmm..

[FulhamTarheel]

Meh, I went from 53ms to 61ms, and I live in Georgia, dont even notice the difference. I am trying to figure out how people's ping went from 50 to 175ms. Like explain please

For me, in NC, my signal to them routes through Atlanta. That's the direction Spectrum is sending it--Supposedly the fastest way.

My ping has nearly doubled at peak time. I was at around 50-80, now I'm at 90-150.

[Fredco191]

The mods were kidnapped BY A MENTOR!!!!!

AAAAAAAHH!!

[NessaWyvern]

My ping went from 150 to around 410-430 so I mean... that's a pretty big change on my end. I'm trying to time things to dodge now and it's just not working out in my favor. I have to become a psychic.

I've played with 460 ping before, you have to play a class that is a caster for sprint, and learn boss rotations. Most bosses actually use their special abilities at set intervals. With titan ex, the time periods between tulmults, landslides and weights are around the same, so you eventually get the feel of it, and move before the aoe appears.

You may have to do a server move like I had to when EU Servers moved (this is what made me have 460 ping), to find a server with better ping.