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

[Rokke]

My ping to Montreal was 25ms. My ping to Sacramento is 89ms... more than triple the amount. May have to quit the game if it is unplayable now.

If you're in double digits you literally have nothing to cry about.

[Mhaeric]

My ping to Montreal was 25ms. My ping to Sacramento is 89ms... more than triple the amount. May have to quit the game if it is unplayable now.

Here's a little tongue in cheek and highly subjective table to help you, and others out:

Ping	Rating relative to FFXIV's needs
<10-20	Amaze-balls
20-40	Awesome-sauce
40-60	Terrific
60-80	Great
80-100	Good
100-120	Decent
120-140 Okay
140-160 Okay, but end game stuff may start to become difficult
160-180 Okay, but may have some issues dodging at times
180-200 Playable, but expect dodging issues
200-230 Playable, but expect frequent dodging issues
230+     Here is where you might want to consider other options such as ISP upgrade,
 checking ping to other data centers, etc.

So you basically went from awesome to good ping. I.e. "The game will be playable for you" is a massive understatement.

[Kouren]

It's possible to raid effectively in the 150 ms range; people under that should be more than fine. I didn't have to start using a VPN for raiding until my ping hit the 180+ range. (Which it did, regularly, in the 3.0~3.3 era.) If you're not raiding, even 180ms should be perfectly playable.

[MishaLune]

Its weird, when i did the tracert i got redirected to Amsterdam and its the reason i got 236ms ping (i hope). The ping to montreal before was around 99-105ms ping, a direct ping to a server thats located in california is about 105ms ping (mudfish).

[Mekhana]

I went from 170ms to 309ms... I don't think the game will be playable for me anymore

I'm supposed to get an average of 120ms from Cali servers but the tracert indicates for some reason its bouncing all the way to Spain first.

[Kethic]

We're seeing people bouncing to Amsterdam, Spain, etc. Maybe the routes are finally started to search and update.

[Exiled_Tonberry]

My ping to Montreal was 25ms. My ping to Sacramento is 89ms... more than triple the amount. May have to quit the game if it is unplayable now.

I've played on 105ms, did Titan and whatever other raids all well enough.

89 you'll be fine, especially with everything running on better gear.

[skyfox]

Wow ping looks great from New Zealand. It used to be 200ms+ when it was in CA.

bash-3.2$ ping 204.2.229.9
PING 204.2.229.9 (204.2.229.9): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 204.2.229.9: icmp_seq=0 ttl=55 time=141.164 ms
64 bytes from 204.2.229.9: icmp_seq=1 ttl=55 time=140.432 ms
64 bytes from 204.2.229.9: icmp_seq=2 ttl=55 time=140.516 ms

My traceroute [v0.85]
Wed May 17 17:30:53 2017
Keys: Help Display mode Restart statistics Order of fields quit
Packets Pings
Host Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev
1. 192.168.89.1 0.0% 8 1.1 1.4 1.1 2.4 0.0
2. ae0-130.mdr-cr1.as45177.net.nz 0.0% 8 1.5 1.6 1.4 2.4 0.0
3. as45177.ae1-1001.cr1.sjc2.us.as4436.gtt.ne 0.0% 7 189.3 144.6 135.0 189.3 20.2
4. ae7-1001.cr0-sjc2.ip4.gtt.net 0.0% 7 135.0 135.4 135.0 136.7 0.4
5. et-0-0-7-1.cr6-sjc1.ip4.gtt.net 0.0% 7 135.9 137.8 135.3 144.2 2.9
6. as2914.sjc12.ip4.gtt.net 0.0% 7 136.1 136.0 135.6 136.7 0.0
7. ae-1.r00.scrmca02.us.bb.gin.ntt.net 0.0% 7 139.7 139.9 139.7 140.5 0.0
8. xe-0-1-0-1-1.r00.scrmca02.us.ce.gin.ntt.ne 0.0% 7 140.3 140.1 140.0 140.3 0.0
9. 204.2.229.234 0.0% 7 139.8 140.1 139.8 140.5 0.0
10. 204.2.229.9 0.0% 7 139.8 140.0 139.6 141.5 0.4

[hynaku]

My ping should be way lower now since live in WA and servers will now be in CA. Maybe won't lag so much and disconnect multiple times a day.

[Mekhana]

Yeah I just noticed the odd bouncing being done to Netherlands and Spain. Hopefully Squeenix reads the forums and manages to fix this problem before servers come up.