Important Information Regarding North American Data Center Relocation

[Azurelos]

I really don't understand how the South Americans get a worse ping. (Aside from its Eastern side perhaps). Because now it's further south from its origination and further west. Should be some better pings going on.

Ah well not that it matters to me. My pings got extremely better. From 200+ now down to 50-100.

Routing. According to reports some of the routing is going to Europe, before coming to the US.

My friend from Brazil mentioned that on her tracert, it's going from BR > Mexico > Miami > Virginia > Seattle > California

That's pretty bad considering it could just simply go from Mexico to Texas, to California.

[Azell]

Routing. According to reports some of the routing is going to Europe, before coming to the US.

My friend from Brazil mentioned that on her tracert, it's going from BR > Mexico > Miami > Virginia > Seattle > California

That's pretty bad considering it could just simply go from Mexico to Texas, to California.

Its because the biggest and most used cable that connect Brazil to USA and EU goes out from the Northeast through the atlantic to Miami and NY, so most SA traffic pass through this cable and from those states goes elsewhere. They completely ignored South America. Most of the people im talking about this had an increase of at least 80% on their ping. Mine went from 100 to 220 =.= and my city is the one that have the cabble i talked about. As you can see here: http://www.submarinecablemap.com

[Eldrin]

Do we at least get a transfer for free? Or would i have to throw even more money down their bottomless maw?

[Sicno]

Im glad i didnt bought sb or extended my subscription , its literally unplayable for anyone on south america and you gave us no option to transfer or whatever , people from eu might be incredibly happy aswell.
Ps:im a new player and i actually look at server pings and stuff , and the only reason i started playng ff is because by what i read devs seemed to care about the comunity but on my first month of play i have to face that i coudnt be more disapointed , you guys could at least give a free transfer for people from other nationalities

Seems it's the end for me too, and glad I didn't pre-order SB yet because now I'm really considering quitting for real. My ping is over 350ms now from Viña del Mar, Chile. Wasn't THAT bad on the old servers, now it's unplayable.

[Bariaus]

Seems it's the end for me too, and glad I didn't pre-order SB yet because now I'm really considering quitting for real. My ping is over 350ms now from Viña del Mar, Chile. Wasn't THAT bad on the old servers, now it's unplayable.

Hey, Stgo here but fam's on Viña (Concón). Switch to VTR. I have VTR there and the ping's about 180ms. They barely changed the route. Movistar (Telefónica) is routing us through Europe, and there we're getting +120ms avg because it jumps from Spain to France to Spain to Netherlands. Before migration we jumped to Spain too, but it was only 3 hops and no increment on ms. Switch to VTR.

[Culfinrandir]

I really don't understand how the South Americans get a worse ping. (Aside from its Eastern side perhaps). Because now it's further south from its origination and further west. Should be some better pings going on.

Ah well not that it matters to me. My pings got extremely better. From 200+ now down to 50-100.

It's not really to do with geographical distance but more to do with the quality & number of physical Internet connections between the two points. First example, from the UK to the US East Coast is a single high-speed connection (3,500 miles, very fast, low latency [ping]) yet New York to Los Angeles (2,500 miles) has maybe 6 jumps & is much slower with a high latency. The intra-US networking appears, to me, to be terrible cross country.

[Sarevok_Thordin]

This has got to be the worst place they could have moved the DC to.

[Eldrin]

This is the largest garbage ever. i'm playing since ffxiv on NA server all my friends are here, my static etc. I can't raid with a ping from 180 to 230 ... im so annoyed. I could punch through my damn screen.

[Lexia]

This is the largest garbage ever. i'm playing since ffxiv on NA server all my friends are here, my static etc. I can't raid with a ping from 180 to 230 ... im so annoyed. I could punch through my damn screen.

Well then you would have to buy a new one

[Eldrin]

totally worth it