Give it a couple years Asheram and we will have fast enough internet that NA can play on EU servers full time and enjoy our numerous strong population.
In the past I calculated what would be the lowest theoretical ping that we can have between Paris and New-York and it is :
Distance: 5844 km or 3631 milles
Celerity/speed of the light in vacuum: 300000 km/s
Celerity/speed of the light in single-mode fiber: 200000 km/s
Travel duration: Distance / speed = 29.22 ms, so basically a ping of 30 ms which is pretty good.
Wikipedia article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_fiber#Index_of_refractionTo put it another way, the signal will take 5 milliseconds to travel 1,000 kilometers in fiber.
Thus a phone call carried by fiber between Sydney and New York, a 16,000-kilometer distance, means that there is a minimum delay of 80 milliseconds (about 1/12 of a second) between when one caller speaks and the other hears. (The fiber in this case will probably travel a longer route, and there will be additional delays due to communication equipment switching and the process of encoding and decoding the voice onto the fiber).
Eu1 server is hosted in Germany at Frankfurt am Main giving a theoretical ping:
- Paris: 478 km: 2.4 ms
- London: 639 km: 3.2 ms
- New-York: 6210 km: 31 ms
- Denver: 8125 km: 40.6 ms
- San Francisco: 9144 km: 45.7 ms
So it's in theory possible to play together without lag!
And for the fun :
Earth to the Moon is approx 384403 km (238857 miles) giving a ping of 1922 ms, no way to play online with Moon people!
