Can you move the NA servers from Canada to the US?

[Zumi]

Since you guys are moving the EU servers to Europe how about moving the NA servers out of Canada and to the US. There are many US players that experience bad lag due to the servers being in Canada.

There is often a huge routing problem caused by going through level 3 the route to Canada is not always stable and packet loss often happens. Sometimes the game gets rubberbanding lag. Making it impossible to do endgame without dying a lot.

[Genesis-xyx]

But then what happens to Canada? Wouldn't they experience the same thing? Perhaps just another server centre would be better.

[KaiKatzchen]

I have this same issue with Level 3, and have mentioned it a few times. Personally I think the server is fine where it is, they just need to get rid of Level 3 and route it another way.

[Dyvid]

Level 3 is the issue, not server location. Only thing SE can do is ask them not to throttle FFXIV.

[Zumi]

Here is an MTR of one of the time level3 was messing up FFXIV that I couldn't do Titan EX.

[Exstal]

EU has to deal with going across an ocean to connect. It's not the same thing.

[Alukah]

Isn't it your ISP the one routing your packets through Level 3?

[Fornix]

Isn't it your ISP the one routing your packets through Level 3?

Perhaps, perhaps not. Your ISP only routes it to a connecting network. The connecting network may route you through level 3 as well, out of your ISP's control. The thing is though, no matter where the servers are going to be located, people are going to remain screwed over. Simply depending on which side of the level 3 network they're resided.

Asking for the servers to be brought to your end of the level 3 network therefore is just about one of the most selfish demands to be made in this.

[Kyri]

im cool with keeping servers close to home eh? ^^

[Bucy]

Perhaps, perhaps not. Your ISP only routes it to a connecting network. The connecting network may route you through level 3 as well, out of your ISP's control. The thing is though, no matter where the servers are going to be located, people are going to remain screwed over. Simply depending on which side of the level 3 network they're resided.

Asking for the servers to be brought to your end of the level 3 network therefore is just about one of the most selfish demands to be made in this.

An insider network engineer explained to me that the level 3 provider in Montreal is either being paid by SE or our ISPs, or both, and that is the heart of the dilemma. Neither SE or the oligopoly ISPs want to admit to being the client of some discount level 3 provider.