What is the point of the new NA servers and NA DC maintenance?

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Genius, please think hard about all the times Facebook, Google, Twitter, Reddit etc. partially go down and the respective companies come out and say they're fixing the problem when 90% of people can still access it.



The issue is at Square's end lmao. Look at the traceroutes.

Square doesn't own NTT. Only the last two hops are SE's network. The rest is NTT. Which has issues. Before NTT, we had Level3 issues in the last hop before heading into Montreal, CA. Everyone has forgotten the Level3 memes, but it was the same back then.



Whether or not you will have latency issues in XIV is heavily dependent on which ISP you have and where you are located. There are people in Sacramento playing who have had far more issues with packet loss than I have, in the Seattle area. My ping to the server is almost always 25, except when my roommates are using all the bandwidth. I have only rarely had disconnect issues, and that's when Ziply is having problems, or the actual servers themselves are. I'm not saying there aren't issues for people. I'm saying 99% of the time its not who they they it is.


NA ISPs are literal dogcrap, because they have no incentive to provide good routing for consumers, and no incentives to upgrade their decades old infrastructure that wasn't meant for low latency gaming.



It functions for web browsing, as that doesn't care about dropped packets, same as video streaming, because of buffering, and that's all most consumers care about.