[Data Center USA] Ping increased. Report your changes here.

[Daemic]

Never mind, I see they are pingable now. I'm 1500 miles from Sacramento and I get 47ms to both. I don't think it's going to be as bad as people think.

[-BlueGreen-]

Personally I'm seeing about an 8-10ms reduction, so from 60-70ms to 52-60ms. I'm on a fiber connection so my speeds and latency tend to be pretty consistent to my ISP, but despite all that the servers have felt rather laggy for the last 6-12 months, especially during peak hours even if my own connection showed no noticeable difference in latency. My best guess is that the data center was previously overloaded, and the details SE have given us for part of the reason to move the data center was just that. Since my ping is apparently not changing much, I might be in a good position to get a feel for if the new data center is better capable of hosting the game and has less latency due to not being overloaded.

In other words, a ping of 10ms wouldn't mean much if the server was overloaded and took 200ms just to process the input, so if the cause of lag for most people was related to server overloading, they might notice improved gameplay even with increased ping times.

[Jaxelyn]

I like the Phily and Seattle Test since you are testing from both sides of Michigan lol
Also, I'm pretty sure there might be a bit of lag through tomorrow as stuff clears up in routing tables. US ISPs don't necessarily work quickly.

[Azper]

To those late to the thread, let me summarize the last 42 pages:

[Mhaeric]

Now that we know they really went there, is anyone planning to transfer? Either from NA to EU or JP to NA.

neolobby02.ffxiv.com has address 204.2.229.9
neolobby04.ffxiv.com has address 204.2.229.10

(these ARE pingable now!)

If these are in fact the correct ip addresses, then my ping has gone from a reasonably good 80-90 to a fast 40-50. Good news for west coast players for sure.

[Bjond]

While I love the CA choice for myself (12ms ping), it is obviously not a good choice for the health of ANY online game they intend to offer within north and south america. The physics of the situation pretty much dictates Texas -- mid-southern USA as the ideal place to offer the best potential latency to both continents. SE knows this.

Our new datacenter seems to be NTT/RagingWire's CA3 spot. Why didn't they choose the TX1 spot? My bet is that TX1 is not ready; they *just* opened it. I'd further speculate that there could easily be either another move planned to TX1 or future/other games planned for TX1 site if NTT does a good job with the CA3 site. Another move would depend greatly on how smooth this one goes for them. If they find it to be cheap and painless and SB really takes off, it could move again in 6~12 months. By then, the TX1 site will be ready.

[EdgeFayth]

I live in BC (Canadian West Coast).
On the previous server location (in the same country), I was getting ~120 ms ping with no packet loss. Not that nice (compared to the 15 ms i got when I was living in Japan and playing on a JP server), but playable.
I pinged the server from work (business line), and I was happy to see a constant 35 ms ping! Great !
Then I went back home (non business line). And I am crying...

--- 204.2.229.9 ping statistics ---
429 packets transmitted, 419 received, 2% packet loss, time 428552ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 28.498/106.945/956.069/89.694 ms

same "average" ping as before (even if the new server location is 2000 miles closer to before), and packet losses. I know this will make the game unplayable...

[Kethic]

I live in BC (Canadian West Coast).
--- 204.2.229.9 ping statistics ---
429 packets transmitted, 419 received, 2% packet loss, time 428552ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 28.498/106.945/956.069/89.694 ms

same "average" ping as before (even if the new server location is 2000 miles closer to before), and packet losses. I know this will make the game unplayable...

That sounds like you need to upgrade your equipment at home. :-(

[Kethic]

I think their first step is to get the server up and running, after which they can let the routing tables update their paths and costs. Even after the servers come up tonight, it could be hours, or days until we get a firm location indication.

Based on the ping test results I'm seeing, I suspect california is correct. We'll see.