NA/EU are not close each other!!!!

[finiteHP]

That might be a bit off topic, but i have a noob question...but how can i compare/look up the ping between JP and NA data center?
I have the bad feeling, that we still have server lag...running out of the aoe circles and getting hit anyway, feels like an Ifrit fight dejavu...
Pretty much i am pissed about that...

The distance from here to Montreal is about half the distance from Montreal to parts of Europe (I used Paris for my distance calculations). As such my observations may not apply to Europe. I noticed that if I ran when I saw the circle appear and stopped a little beyond the circle whether I got hit or not was pretty random. If I ran when I saw the circle and ran a ways beyond the circle, I wouldn't get hit most of the time. If I ran when the enemy's casting bar appeared, I would never get hit even if I stopped just a little out of range. Being healer in Ifrit (so I didn't see his casting bar) as long as I ran right after the ground effects showed up I didn't get hit at all. The only 1.0 Ifrit fight that I did was the low level one where Ifrit was defeated by the people that skipped the scene before I was even done the scene (I never got around to doing the hard primal fights for some reason), so my experience is as a noob to Ifrit who has only read about what you had to do.

[Linka]

The AOE circle thing may or may not be related to network latency (ping times). From what little I've read, it could just be something SE needs to adjust during beta.

As for checking ping times to SE data centers, people have been using the following hosts to estimate network latency:

jp.square-enix.com or 202.67.53.202 (for "JP" region)
square-enix-montreal.com or 184.107.107.176 (for "NA/EU" region)

Ok thanks for the IPs, but how do i measure the ping now?
And i really hope that the AoE thing, is not server related, and that they get it fixed soon.

The distance from here to Montreal is about half the distance from Montreal to parts of Europe (I used Paris for my distance calculations). As such my observations may not apply to Europe. I noticed that if I ran when I saw the circle appear and stopped a little beyond the circle whether I got hit or not was pretty random. If I ran when I saw the circle and ran a ways beyond the circle, I wouldn't get hit most of the time. If I ran when the enemy's casting bar appeared, I would never get hit even if I stopped just a little out of range. Being healer in Ifrit (so I didn't see his casting bar) as long as I ran right after the ground effects showed up I didn't get hit at all. The only 1.0 Ifrit fight that I did was the low level one where Ifrit was defeated by the people that skipped the scene before I was even done the scene (I never got around to doing the hard primal fights for some reason), so my experience is as a noob to Ifrit who has only read about what you had to do.

Well me and my freinds used to clear the chat log beside the Ifrit actions. Once you saw "Ifrit casts Erruption" you pretty had start to run, if you ran away once you saw the effect, it was too late. Ifrit was not fun at all, cuz you pretty was limited to staring at the chat log...One of the reasons why many ppl i know never attemt the relics, because Ifrit Extrem was impossible to beat under such conditions

[ArkhamNative]

Ok thanks for the IPs, but how do i measure the ping now?

You can open a command window and type "ping " then the host name or IP address. (better instructions: EN, DE). After ~5 pings it will display a summary. The number after "average" is what you're looking for.

Note that ping values can vary depending on problems elsewhere on the Internet, so what you see could change from hour to hour, day to day, etc.

[Linka]

You can open a command window and type "ping " then the host name or IP address. (better instructions: EN, DE). After ~5 pings it will display a summary. The number after "average" is what you're looking for.

Note that ping values can vary depending on problems elsewhere on the Internet, so what you see could change from hour to hour, day to day, etc.

Ok, thank you very very much m(_ _)m