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[Uzephi]

This might be overkill for checking ping, but it does do some magic like jitter test to the server, checks for ping spikes, PL along the routes, etc.

[Namingaway]

looking through the resource monitor shows up as an remote address of 204.2.229.84 for Coeurl which looking into the trace puts it in Colorado. Not sure why people are saying Sacramento.

[Kosmos992k]

looking through the resource monitor shows up as an remote address of 204.2.229.84 for Coeurl which looking into the trace puts it in Colorado. Not sure why people are saying Sacramento.

routing tables are still being rebuilt ripple by ripple. It will likely take weeks for everything to settle down from the changes. I bet that the DNS changes haven't fully propagated yet either, Though I'm sure the main root DNS servers are updated otherwise it wouldn't work at all.

Regarding the data center location, unless SE has confirmed a state for it, I wouldn't make any assumptions until things settle in terms of routing.

[Namingaway]

routing tables are still being rebuilt ripple by ripple. It will likely take weeks for everything to settle down from the changes. I bet that the DNS changes haven't fully propagated yet either, Though I'm sure the main root DNS servers are updated otherwise it wouldn't work at all.

Regarding the data center location, unless SE has confirmed a state for it, I wouldn't make any assumptions until things settle in terms of routing.

Ahhh ok thanks!

[Raikki]

Ahhh ok thanks!

Unfortunately that person doesn't quite know what they're talking about. It's possible that NTT could improve their internal routing in the future, but the location of the datacenters is set in stone now. The Colorado address you're seeing is a business address that NTT America's IP's are registered to, but is not where they're being used. This is abundantly clear if you simply look at their website:

http://www.us.ntt.com/en/services/da...center/us.html

They are not running a Colorado datacenter. They have facilities in California, Virginia, and Texas. No matter what conspiracies you want to entertain, even if you want to ignore the fact that the route terminates right after a clearly-labeled "sacramento, ca" hop, the fact is that the low pings northwest players are getting now would not even be possible if it were in Virginia or Texas no matter how good the routing was. You're being asked to believe the Earth might be flat.

[Kosmos992k]

Unfortunately that person doesn't quite know what they're talking about. It's possible that NTT could improve their internal routing in the future, but the location of the datacenters is set in stone now. The Colorado address you're seeing is a business address that NTT America's IP's are registered to, but is not where they're being used. This is abundantly clear if you simply look at their website:

http://www.us.ntt.com/en/services/da...center/us.html

They are not running a Colorado datacenter. They have facilities in California, Virginia, and Texas. No matter what conspiracies you want to entertain, even if you want to ignore the fact that the route terminates right after a clearly-labeled "sacramento, ca" hop, the fact is that the low pings northwest players are getting now would not even be possible if it were in Virginia or Texas no matter how good the routing was. You're being asked to believe the Earth might be flat.

Insulting people doesn't help your accuracy.

What I stated about routing tables is correct, it's a matter of fact that routing tables are dynamic by design and continue to optimize where possible. I made no statement about any specific data center location, deferring to better information should SE release it. NTT improving their internal routing is one thing, but routing into NTT can optimize regardless of what NTT do internally.

[Namingaway]

Unfortunately that person doesn't quite know what they're talking about. It's possible that NTT could improve their internal routing in the future, but the location of the datacenters is set in stone now. The Colorado address you're seeing is a business address that NTT America's IP's are registered to, but is not where they're being used. This is abundantly clear if you simply look at their website:

http://www.us.ntt.com/en/services/da...center/us.html

They are not running a Colorado datacenter. They have facilities in California, Virginia, and Texas. No matter what conspiracies you want to entertain, even if you want to ignore the fact that the route terminates right after a clearly-labeled "sacramento, ca" hop, the fact is that the low pings northwest players are getting now would not even be possible if it were in Virginia or Texas no matter how good the routing was. You're being asked to believe the Earth might be flat.

Ah ok. That makes sense. It's nice to know that's why the geosites are saying that. I saw several Geosites putting it in Colorado when I punched in the IP address since I wasn't sure that scrmca was supposed to be brought out to be Sacramento due to the level 3 servers completely spelling out Montreal. I saw the tracert and now I realized that I am entering the NTT network in Palo Alto (plalca), then heading east to San Jose (snjsca) then north to Sacramento (scrmca). didn't think I would be going down there to enter the network. Thanks for the info as well! Now I'm able to see how it gets there.

[notebook]

On the previous data center I had very high latency, probably at least 300ms. So it was very difficult and frustrating when I'm trying to farm Golden Saucer Dollars on the Crystal Tower Machine as the menus take at least 45 seconds to load, sometimes even longer!!
But on the new servers, the loading of the menus is so fast and smooth. I went from getting 243 Golden Saucer Dollars per minute to a whopping 452 Golden Saucer Dollars per minute on the Crystal Tower Machine!
I just want to use this post to show my appreciation to Square Enix for really listening to the players of Final Fantasy XIV Online A Realm Reborn Heavensward.
And last of all I want to thank Yoshi-P for his hard work and dedication towards the game. Although he may not be my favorite yoshi (he is my fourth favorite after Green Yoshi, Yarn Yoshi and Baby Yoshi) I still love him dearly for creating this amazing game.
Thank you thank you!! Can't wait to play Stormblood with my low ping!

[BorisDaBlade]

People will hate you.

[SilkaN]

People will hate you.

If it's only the forums, then... meh, who cares.