EU situation is unacceptable at this point

[Ilyrian]

Not true. EU - as always - is affected more than the other Data Centers. I know because I have characters on both EU and NA and haven't crashed on NA once. We need to stop defending SE all the time, especially when it comes to the EU DC cause you can tell that they don't care about EU players at all -_-

Well they care about our money - but that's no different from any company.

I play on Chaos and there have been noticeably worse things happening (outside of the usual rubber banding and weirdness I assume everyone experiences due to the generally bad servers).
Was in a full Pagos server last week and half the groups kept DCing - we kept losing half the server and watched people fall in and out and experienced massive lag.
What is odd is that it didn't effect me at all - over the course of what I gather is DDosing I didn't experience any problems personally.
What I would love to know is how it all works server-wise... Why was i unaffected but others were? Genuinely interested in how all this works.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Well they care about our money - but that's no different from any company.

I play on Chaos and there have been noticeably worse things happening (outside of the usual rubber banding and weirdness I assume everyone experiences due to the generally bad servers).
Was in a full Pagos server last week and half the groups kept DCing - we kept losing half the server and watched people fall in and out and experienced massive lag.
What is odd is that it didn't effect me at all - over the course of what I gather is DDosing I didn't experience any problems personally.
What I would love to know is how it all works server-wise... Why was i unaffected but others were? Genuinely interested in how all this works.

Because its like a road. There are many path's from different countries to the datacenter. One road gets attacked by the DDOS attack, but another may still be open letting traffic through. It is not the server itself having issues usually. If that was the case then no one would be able to connect in most cases. (this is also why its usually the SAME people having the issues repeatedly.)

Usually its people being routed through the Level3 nodes that have the most issues. This company was also the cause of all the issues the servers had when they were hosted in NA, and they also own a lot of the internet backbone worldwide.

[Ilyrian]

Usually its people being routed through the Level3 nodes that have the most issues. This company was also the cause of all the issues the servers had when they were hosted in NA, and they also own a lot of the internet backbone worldwide.

Thanks for the reply. So Level3 is the hosting server - a separate company that handles the traffic? And there's more than one being used here?
I feel I should really know all this - it's amazing how much I just take the internet for granted and live in blissful ignorance >.<

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Thanks for the reply. So Level3 is the hosting server - a separate company that handles the traffic? And there's more than one being used here?
I feel I should really know all this - it's amazing how much I just take the internet for granted and live in blissful ignorance >.<

Level3 is one of the internet backbone providers, one that your ISP, and SE's ISP eventually will connect to on certain routes. They are not the server hosting company.