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

[Malzian]

When the packets get redirected to Amsterdam instead of going straight to the game servers...90ms to 250+ms ping. I would say thats a reason to complain about the server move. Instead of getting better ping because of the shorter distance in my case i get higher because of stupid routing issues since the move. SE has not even said anything since the move at all, only attempted to fix it by offering a free server move and locked a lot of servers.

Um... why does your traceroute go from Los Angeles to Spain to Amsterdam then BACK to California? Something's really wrong here...

[ErryK]

Which american coast is closest to North Korea? Maybe they can handle this issue.

Lol, wow. That's real mature, dude.

[MishaLune]

Thats the thing, i dont know. A normal ping to a server on california or anywhere on the west coast is around 110ms ping for me. It is only when i ping or trace the server that i get such high ping and i noticed the routing to europe when i did a trace. Its not just me that has this issue, people from central america are being redirected to the east coast before going to the game server. Even people from south america are being redirected to europe before the packets start heading to sacramento. It HAS to be on SE end, not ours.

[FaileExperiment]

I love the new data center. I went from over 200ms latency, to about 85ms. It's amazing and I couldn't be happier. While I feel for those whose ping worsened, I think this was a great move by SE. Let's not forget the new data center allowed them to make positive updates to the game, like increasing inventory.

[Malzian]

Thats the thing, i dont know. A normal ping to a server on california or anywhere on the west coast is around 110ms ping for me. It is only when i ping or trace the server that i get such high ping and i noticed the routing to europe when i did a trace. Its not just me that has this issue, people from central america are being redirected to the east coast before going to the game server. Even people from south america are being redirected to europe before the packets start heading to sacramento. It HAS to be on SE end, not ours.

Well, not really on the SE side, they just set up their IP and the systems choose which way to route things. It's odd that your traffic goes across so many private nodes like that and ends up in Spain. It's almost acting like you're running a VPN that terminates in Spain and then the traffic routes back over the open internet. I don't know what else would cause it to throw your traffic out that far.

[Aladire]

I feel that they did more than just relocate the data servers. For me, my ping went from 45ish to 100ish. Yet, my actions respond the same and I see enemies attack sooner so I can react earlier to move out of things.

Yet, the HP bars seem to respond much slower. For example, I was in PotD and after casting a heal, I was able to start casting another one the moment the animation finish all before the HP updated.

[TheLastDream]

This game is so smooth now!

[Akimitsu]

As a EU player the game is awful to play for me now so if there's a solution to fix the atrocious responsiveness, please SE, look into it. Having to leave my friends for a EU server would really be upsetting.

[Raskbuck]

Montreal -> Dallas: 42ms
Seattle -> Dallas: 53ms
Calgary -> Dallas: 70ms
Vancouver -> Dallas: 89ms

Ya got me on Vancouver. Obviously Dallas is a HORRIBLE place for a datacenter in North America. /s

Not to mention everyone in South America would benefit from it as well. Instead, they increased our ping by the hundreds and there's nothing we can do about it.

[Raikki]

You seem fixated on NTT as an issue, they are not. Their internal routing is not the issue based on the tracert outputs I have seen. It's the routing of traffic from the client to their boundary routers, and back to the client from that boundary that is the primary issue.

Except that for a lot of users, they actually are an issue. NTT's route from the northeast is simply not very good. There are much better routes into the area that are not available to us. All we can do is get to the closest NTT node the best we can, which in this case is NYC, and my route to them in NYC is already perfectly fine. I've tested my routes to multiple VPN endpoints and other datacenters in the area and get better routes to the majority of them.