Jagwaar Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 I'm just curious if it does not matter which server we chose for connection quality? My brothers who live in the East rolled on a West server and before I join them I wanted to see if it would make much difference. Thanks in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dev Post AllisonBerryman Posted December 16, 2011 Dev Post Share Posted December 16, 2011 Our servers are located in different physical locations, as denoted by their listing in Server Selection. We have servers on the East Coast USA, West Coast USA, and in Europe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kishkata Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 Our servers are located in different physical locations, as denoted by their listing in Server Selection. We have servers on the East Coast USA, West Coast USA, and in Europe. Could you be more specific - are all European servers located in the same country/city? If not, is there a way to determine which server is hosted where? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jagwaar Posted December 16, 2011 Author Share Posted December 16, 2011 Thanks for the quick response Allison, much appreciated. I would gather from your response that since there is a physical distance associated with the actual servers that it would be a wiser choice to stay in your own region? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyr-El Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 European servers are in Ireland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggeorgiou Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 European servers are in Ireland. European servers are full.... true story Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanteGray Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 European servers are full.... true story this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcus_Cade Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 European servers are full.... true story This has what to do with the thread.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avimeso Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 my understanding is there are 3 data centers. 1 on the west coast 1 on the east coast 1 in europe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nowhere Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 (edited) Where exactly is a good question and one that I need answered also. I live in Central Canada & therefore I have no knowledge of whether I am closer to the "West" or "East" server without a specific city location. This information would be great! Edited December 17, 2011 by Nowhere Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romiz Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 my understanding is there are 3 data centers. 1 on the west coast 1 on the east coast 1 in europe Correct that is reason the latency is very low if you pick a server close to your time zone. Like I am on the western border of EST and latency is 28-52 MS. Latency on Western server is 2x that for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZEETRON Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 I did an IP trace and found the west coast servers as of early access launch are located in San Francisco. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nowhere Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 I did an IP trace and found the west coast servers as of early access launch are located in San Francisco. Thanks! Now to find out where the East coast servers are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wahala Posted September 30, 2013 Share Posted September 30, 2013 Thanks! Now to find out where the East coast servers are. I was having a bad lag problem one night on Shadowlands (an "Eastern Time" Server) and used a program I have to get the IP address of all my computers connections, then an IP Lookup for physical location, and was surprised to find that Shadowlands is in San Francisco as well. A speed test to San Francisco during the lag episode showed me that the lag problem was in the internet path somewhere (300 - 3k ping and <1mbps to 1.8 mbps to San Francisco and 30 - 50 ms ping and 0ver 10 mbps to Austin .... where I had assumed the server was) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cripplers Posted September 30, 2013 Share Posted September 30, 2013 Nice 21 month necro. Glad you took time to search through 5,000 pages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ImpactHound Posted September 30, 2013 Share Posted September 30, 2013 Ireland has had an attractive tech boom in the past decade, way to turn it around redheads! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andryah Posted September 30, 2013 Share Posted September 30, 2013 Where exactly is a good question and one that I need answered also. I live in Central Canada & therefore I have no knowledge of whether I am closer to the "West" or "East" server without a specific city location. This information would be great! This is an old necro.. but it's still worthy of comment since it's being pinged for server info again. Exact locations of servers is generally NOT something that a company will disclose. Why? concerns about security. Besides.. they probably host from within one of the mega-farms that house much of the commercial server hardware these days. And those mega farms do not permit specific disclosures.. again for security reasons. West Coast US servers are somewhere in the southern half of California I believe. The East Coast servers, probably somewhere in Virginia. Europe.. no clue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarknessInLight Posted September 30, 2013 Share Posted September 30, 2013 I'm just curious if it does not matter which server we chose for connection quality? My brothers who live in the East rolled on a West server and before I join them I wanted to see if it would make much difference. Thanks in advance My understanding is that ALL American servers are in Texas, possibly housed within Bioware's HQ, which is in Texas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ImpactHound Posted September 30, 2013 Share Posted September 30, 2013 My understanding is that ALL American servers are in Texas, possibly housed within Bioware's HQ, which is in Texas. Plano, TX is a hotspot for servers and call centers nationwide. I know Blizzard's bulk of their GM/CS people work out of that city. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarknessInLight Posted September 30, 2013 Share Posted September 30, 2013 Plano, TX is a hotspot for servers and call centers nationwide. I know Blizzard's bulk of their GM/CS people work out of that city. Not to mention that the servers are all CST. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andryah Posted September 30, 2013 Share Posted September 30, 2013 My understanding is that ALL American servers are in Texas, possibly housed within Bioware's HQ, which is in Texas. Can't be. My ping to west coast servers is 25ms (I'm on the west coast and this is consistent with ping to other internet servers in California). My ping to east coast servers is north of 80ms. This is roughly consistent with pings I get from other internet servers on the east coast. Clearly they are in different physical locations and far apart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akrian Posted September 30, 2013 Share Posted September 30, 2013 Bioware's HQ is not in Texas, it's still in Edmonton....as has been stated the west coast servers are in San Fran, the east coast, no clue, but if I had to guess I would say somewhere in Viginia. The Bioware Texas branch is located in Austin, along with several other EA studios. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FriendReferral Posted September 30, 2013 Share Posted September 30, 2013 Holy necromancy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karimthejedi Posted October 20, 2020 Share Posted October 20, 2020 So to confirm, based on my location in the world, I should pick the server that's closest to me for optimal performance right? I am in the UAE hence why I have picked European server for two months now, and not the North American one (feared I'd get same problems as console connections to only-NA servers on certain game passes). And if this is the case, why doesn't SWTOR create more servers equally distributed around the world? Do remember places like India and China are the most populated and hence many SW fans would love to play this game at optimal performance. Seems servers are limited to NA and Europe only, which kind of leaves the rest of the world out, no? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BenduKundalini Posted October 20, 2020 Share Posted October 20, 2020 (edited) So to confirm, based on my location in the world, I should pick the server that's closest to me for optimal performance right? I am in the UAE hence why I have picked European server for two months now, and not the North American one (feared I'd get same problems as console connections to only-NA servers on certain game passes). And if this is the case, why doesn't SWTOR create more servers equally distributed around the world? Do remember places like India and China are the most populated and hence many SW fans would love to play this game at optimal performance. Seems servers are limited to NA and Europe only, which kind of leaves the rest of the world out, no? I'm in France and can play NA servers quite ok most of the time. Then again I'm 5000 km closer than you are... Edited October 20, 2020 by BenduKundalini Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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