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[Sida]

Test IP for WoW US Central is 24.105.62.129.

For reference, I got 30ms to Aether-Montreal, 105ms to Aether-Sacramento, and 42ms to WoW US Central.

What is the geographic location of the wow central?

[Raikki]

What is the geographic location of the wow central?

Chicago, last I knew.

[VeliusVire]

'SEA Players + Privilege?' I'm cackling, we went from 240 ping to 170 ping, in comparison to a lot of other players, 170 is still in the spectrum of 'Impossible to play'. Personally, I'm loving the lower ping, but please don't say SEA players have privilege of anything, we don't have our own Servers, let alone our own DATA CENTRE.

[Hey123]

I coudnt be more disapointed why do something like that withouth giving people any option , especially people who didnt had an option to begin with south america people.. , also please stop this bs of eu players shoudnt be here or whatever , this doesnt make any sense , they choose this server because it was the better option at the moment , the one tho blame is the company not the person , and if na people were in the situation of eu people all we can hope is eu people understood and give support for then to have a good experience aswell , literally why would you want someone to have a bad experience playng a game they paid and pay for montly?

[VeliusVire]

Because, the cruel truth is what it is, EU players made a CONSCIOUS CHOICE to remain on NA DC for /whatever reason/. I'm not going to judge them for their reasoning to stay, but you cannot blame a company after they made a whole Data Centre + Free Transfers at the time of creation.

[Aronys]

Because, the cruel truth is what it is, EU players made a CONSCIOUS CHOICE to remain on NA DC for /whatever reason/. I'm not going to judge them for their reasoning to stay, but you cannot blame a company after they made a whole Data Centre + Free Transfers at the time of creation.

Again, EU people DID NOT get free transfers off of NA. NA people did get them off of EU. We stayed here due to being here for years already, having a community and friends, houses and everything. And the latency was still manageable. Now? It's not. Expecting people to just leave everything behind and try to start afresh is silly when there was no reason to do so until now when we are literally forced to move.

[Sida]

That's not very central, at least from geographic point of view. Even if accounting the map stretch giving slightly wrong image.

[cakesphere]

That's not very central, at least from geographic point of view. Even if accounting the map stretch giving slightly wrong image.

It's more central than montreal or sacramento wrt all of NA, not just US, but you're not wrong.

[Raikki]

That's not very central, at least from geographic point of view. Even if accounting the map stretch giving slightly wrong image.

It's central as far as Internet infrastructure goes. Kansas City, MO, is more of a "true" centerpoint, but it's rarer to see major hosting done there. Chicago and Dallas are the usual places you're going to see "Central" servers located.

[Raikki]

It's central as far as Internet infrastructure goes. Kansas City, MO, is more of a "true" centerpoint, but it's rarer to see major hosting done there. Chicago and Dallas are the usual places you're going to see "Central" servers located.

Expanding upon this, here are some pings to that IP (24.105.62.129, Blizzard US Central in Chicago) from backbone servers in various locations:

Portland, OR: 49ms (Northwest US)
San Diego, CA: 54ms (Southwest US)
Boston, MA: 24ms (Northeast US)
Miami, FL: 33ms (Southeast US)
Frankfurt, Germany: 109ms

Residential pings will be a bit higher obviously and may not have as good routes as these. Hopefully it's obvious that not only would a huge percentage of North Americans be getting stellar latency, but the impact on European players may have been reduced significantly enough to allow them to stay on their preferred server.