Comparing current to possible new NA server location (Ping test)

[chesterotab]

Location: Southern California

Current: 67ms avg

Texas: 44ms avg

Move the server to Texas!

[Dooz]

Updated the three added pingers into original post.

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My suspicion has been that Texas server would even out pings for more players, in that it wouldn't be as large a disparity between people with low ping and high ping. Instead, more people with low ping would be raised and those with higher lowered to a point that they're closer to each other, instead of there being such a large gap as there is now. So I plugged all the results from this thread into a spreadsheet, but I'm not exactly sure where to go from here to try and figure out what I'm after. Anyone with a mathematically oriented brain wanna help out? Either by telling me what to look for and what equations I might use, or I can link you to the googledoc spreadsheet.

In the meantime, here are the results from one method I thought might help elucidate what a move to Texas would entail, filtering out certain ranges for each location.

pings <21
current: 12
texas: 8

pings >20 <40
current: 38
texas: 12

pings >40 <60
current: 20
texas: 60

pings >60 <80
current: 31
texas: 22

pings >79
current: 19
texas: 20

You can kinda see what I meant, with most of the change being significantly more people included in the 40-60 ping range, which is probably considered an acceptable level. It feels fairer in any case, more people having more similar pings. Outliers are outliers in any scenario and will still exist, but for the majority it seems a move to Texas would help even things out by bring pings closer together.

The 200% increase in players with a ping between 40-60 is hard to ignore.

[Gmnotutoo]

Please move the servers.

[Winterly]

Location: Southern California

Current: 67ms avg

Texas: 44ms avg

Move the server to Texas!

[Gmnotutoo]

I wish I got 30 ping, I wish I got 50 ping, hell I'd even take 75 ping.

Instead I get stuck with 90+ because somehow Chicago is the "fairest" place in America to host a server.

From Los Angeles to Chicago is around 2000 miles or 3219 km.
From Los Angeles to Atlanta is around 2,177 miles or 3503 km.

Essentially its an east coast server for me, if it was based in Texas I'd be very happy to donate but as it stands I have no desire to give out my money so east coasters can ping crutch.

Quoting myself, balance latency because its been over powered for east coasters long enough.

[Gmnotutoo]

I'd be all for a move farther west if it was also a little farther north.

Like Colorado, Kansas, or Nebraska.

I like Kansas City, its the best place that doesn't screw canadians over.

[Cradoc]

Current: 77 ms

Texas: 77 ms

Location: Northern California

Hmmm that's weird. It should be lower atleast a little bit.
Will try on my computer soon, I am on a laptop on wifi right now.

[Winterly]

Yeah, when connecting from Cali, the ping variation is so great. I constantly move between Nocal and Socal and I've had ping from 75-140 depending on the location and ISP. It's awful. I won't really complain at 75 ping but am envious of those below it. I can only feel pity for those with over 100 ping because I've been there. It just makes for very quick, unfun sessions with little to no enthusiasm (of course there are those special few exceptions).

Cradoc, you probably pinged the same location.

[Cradoc]

Yeah, when connecting from Cali, the ping variation is so great. I constantly move between Nocal and Socal and I've had ping from 75-140 depending on the location and ISP. It's awful. I won't really complain at 75 ping but am envious of those below it. I can only feel pity for those with over 100 ping because I've been there. It just makes for very quick, unfun sessions with little to no enthusiasm (of course there are those special few exceptions).

Cradoc, you probably pinged the same location.

Well I didn't but here's a screen from a retest

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On my computer I had various results and had to run it multiple times to get the avg of the avg huehue

Current: 75ms

Texas: 73ms

I know a few people with ping around ~69. So jealous of them.

[Rumblood]

Current: 54ms
Texas: 24ms

[Panos_]

Moving the NA servers to Texas would be like moving the EU servers to Greece. It only rewards the shittiest part (with the shittiest people) of the continent.

that niga is mad 

[Auphilia]

Current: 40

Texas: 16


Location: San Antonio, Texas (I live next to blackzilla - he doesn't know I stalk him to the grocery store) <3

[smals98]

Current: 83ms


Texas: 68ms

Location: North-Western Oklahoma

[cmp]

This is quite outdated.