Server Location

[Rhambuk]

Originally Posted by getsome [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You afraid they gonna unplug them. Lol

Maybe! Anonymous account asking where the servers are. Maybe ive been reading these forums to much but im a little nervous for my pixels!

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

to OP: dig deeper. They are not telling you everything.

Deep Throat

[Noxieus]

Why I would like to know: www dot WTFast dot com

WTFast is a very useful program that reduces latency by offering a more direct route to whatever game servers you play.

In WoW, my latency went from about 45ms to 20ms, living in California and connecting to the LA servers.

I get ~100ms here, so I figure the benefit might be substantial.

Thanks for the discussion.

[Thulack]

45 to 20ms? 50 bucks says you couldnt even tell a difference.

[getsome]

Originally Posted by username17 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The servers are on the East coast of the US somewhere in the Carolina's.

I ran a trace route from California, DC, and Virginia. I got routed through Atlanta each time.
The servers aren't far enough north that I'd stop at a Virginia router. It put me through Atlanta.
I'm thinking somewhere in North/South Carolina close to Atlanta.


There were 2 hops after passing through Atlanta which didn't have PTR records so I can't confirm the exact location. IP location look ups are not always accurate (company I work for purchases IPs on the west coast and uses them on the east coast) so I can't say exactly.

If I'm right I live about 6 hours away from the servers which is nice.

Netriplex has a data center in arden, nc ( close to asheville) and a fiber link to atlanta. They also have a datacenter in atlanta.

[username17]

I'm fairly certain which Colo company has the server. They have 4 data centers in the Carolinas.

But no one needs to know which data center the server is in. There's no benefit from having that level of information so I didn't share it.

@OP: The EQ Emulator servers are hosted on the east coast of the US. In the North/South Carolina area.
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[Rhambuk]

Originally Posted by Noxieus [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Why I would like to know: www dot WTFast dot com

WTFast is a very useful program that reduces latency by offering a more direct route to whatever game servers you play.

In WoW, my latency went from about 45ms to 20ms, living in California and connecting to the LA servers.

I get ~100ms here, so I figure the benefit might be substantial.

Thanks for the discussion.

Nice trick lemme know how it works out for you. Why keep a secret like this to yourself anyway? couldve posted this and saved the tinfoil hat discussion =)

[Swish]

Originally Posted by Noxieus [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Why I would like to know: www dot WTFast dot com

WTFast is a very useful program that reduces latency by offering a more direct route to whatever game servers you play.

In WoW, my latency went from about 45ms to 20ms, living in California and connecting to the LA servers.

I get ~100ms here, so I figure the benefit might be substantial.

Thanks for the discussion.

Going to give this a try as well...there's a testemonial from someone in the UK stating their ms got halved [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Zereh]

I seem to remember something about them being in Atlanta? Dig through the patch notes or Rogean's posts because I think he mentioned it when talking about some forced downtime for data center maintenance.

[Rhambuk]

messed around with a couple my norm is 85ms in ec. i got it down to 77 =p