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Eu server still in america ?
Seewul
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i did some testing and found that EU server might still be in US -.-
Borrowed from reddit http://www.reddit.com/r/elderscrollsonline/comments/20elib/the_eu_megaserver_appears_to_be_located_in_the_us/
The "EU" Megaserver seems to be located in the US, specifically in Cockeysville, Maryland on the East Coast. This is not precisely what I would call an "EU server". Hopefully this is just the case for this beta.
I currently get between 150-180ms to this server on a standard DSL connection from Sweden. As a comparison, pings to other European game servers, for example Battlefield 4 or WoW, are usually around 30-50ms with my connection.
My testing method:
Log into the EU Megaserver, log into a char and switch ESO to windowed mode.
Open task manager, click "Resource Monitor" and select the "Network" tab.
Select the checkmark next to "eso.exe" in the upper window.
Walk around in the game and watch the IP adress with most traffic in the "Network Activity" window. This is most likely the server that processes your characters movement, combat and so on.
Enter said IP adress, for example in my case "198.20.200.93", into a geolocation service such as http://www.iplocation.net / http://www.ipligence.com/geolocation.
The current ping to the server will also be displayed in the "TCP Connections" section of the Resource Monitor.
EDIT: /u/Dimillian posted a link to an official news entry that explains the situation. In short, ZOS figured that there is no noticable disadvantage to having European players play on the US servers, so they chose to have the EU servers located in the US to be able to quickly react to any problems during the launch period. Incidentally, they seem to be not quite done with setting up the EU datacenter. As soon as the launch period is over and the EU datacenter operational, they will migrate everyone playing on the US-based "EU server" over to the actual European datacenter - without any user intervention needed. I expect a slightly longer maintenance period during this migration.
Borrowed from reddit http://www.reddit.com/r/elderscrollsonline/comments/20elib/the_eu_megaserver_appears_to_be_located_in_the_us/
The "EU" Megaserver seems to be located in the US, specifically in Cockeysville, Maryland on the East Coast. This is not precisely what I would call an "EU server". Hopefully this is just the case for this beta.
I currently get between 150-180ms to this server on a standard DSL connection from Sweden. As a comparison, pings to other European game servers, for example Battlefield 4 or WoW, are usually around 30-50ms with my connection.
My testing method:
Log into the EU Megaserver, log into a char and switch ESO to windowed mode.
Open task manager, click "Resource Monitor" and select the "Network" tab.
Select the checkmark next to "eso.exe" in the upper window.
Walk around in the game and watch the IP adress with most traffic in the "Network Activity" window. This is most likely the server that processes your characters movement, combat and so on.
Enter said IP adress, for example in my case "198.20.200.93", into a geolocation service such as http://www.iplocation.net / http://www.ipligence.com/geolocation.
The current ping to the server will also be displayed in the "TCP Connections" section of the Resource Monitor.
EDIT: /u/Dimillian posted a link to an official news entry that explains the situation. In short, ZOS figured that there is no noticable disadvantage to having European players play on the US servers, so they chose to have the EU servers located in the US to be able to quickly react to any problems during the launch period. Incidentally, they seem to be not quite done with setting up the EU datacenter. As soon as the launch period is over and the EU datacenter operational, they will migrate everyone playing on the US-based "EU server" over to the actual European datacenter - without any user intervention needed. I expect a slightly longer maintenance period during this migration.
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Darkeus✭✭✭normaly i have 40-50 ms ping on other games with eu servs... on eso i have ~100 sometimes even more then 200...0 -
Heromofo✭✭✭✭✭normaly i have 40-50 ms ping on other games with eu servs... on eso i have ~100 sometimes even more then 200...
You guys are lucky to have an EU server we need an oceanic mega server because lag is Australia is ridiculous alot of the time.
Good day 300-500
Bad day 500-800
The bad AvAvA days 999+Edited by Heromofo on June 7, 2015 4:30PM0 -
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✭✭Nah, it is in EU. Usually getting 50ms when not much is going on. So it cant be in US.0 -
Earelith✭✭✭I hope PS4 EU server will also be in EU...anyone have any info about it? If is not on EU I ll cancel my pre-order..I tried play in US server in the past (FFXIV, Tera, Age of Wushu) and all my attemts ended with over 150 ms and the game was not enjoyable .0 -
Seewul✭✭✭log in to the game
ctrl+alt+del ---> performance----> resource management ---> network
check box @ eso.exe
for me there is 2 adresses 159.100.232.162 & 159.100.232.114
http://www.iplocation.net says they go through isle of man to america
well it is what it is...0 -
KhajitFurTrader✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭This is not only getting old, in fact, it really is. The reddit you're quoting is over a year old, and it's been debunked on numerous occasions since then. But' let's see where this gets us, shall we?
First of all, you cannot trust (free) IP geolocation services, ever, as they are not a reliable source. In most cases, location information is pulled from the whois DB records of RIPE or IANA. In the case of the address you've stated above, it belongs to an address block registered to Zenimax Media, so of course Maryland is bound to turn up somewhere in the query. But guess what, even the NA server farm is hosted in Dallas, TX, so while it's still using the 198.20.200.* address range today (as the EU server cluster once did as well), its IP address is not a correct indication as to its physical location.
Next, I have never seen this range again while playing on the EU server ever since the EU server farm migration to Frankfurt/Main, Germany. The addresses I've seen are always in the 159.100.232.* range. This block belongs to ZOS, but there is no indication as to where in the world it might be. So let's use some traces, shall we?$ lsof -i | grep eso eso 3156 <user> 42u IPv4 0xddd2867864cce7a5 0t0 TCP <hostname>:63932->159.100.232.24:24503 (ESTABLISHED) eso 3156 <user> 43u IPv4 0xddd2867864d22945 0t0 TCP <hostname>:63939->159.100.232.148:24121 (ESTABLISHED) $ traceroute 159.100.232.24 traceroute to 159.100.232.24 (159.100.232.24), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets 1 <gateway> (<home network>) 0.518 ms 0.639 ms 0.219 ms 2 217.0.117.111 (217.0.117.111) 11.528 ms 7.833 ms 7.090 ms 3 87.190.166.106 (87.190.166.106) 7.202 ms 8.395 ms 87.190.166.102 (87.190.166.102) 9.548 ms 4 217.239.45.242 (217.239.45.242) 11.535 ms 11.876 ms 12.044 ms 5 193.159.226.18 (193.159.226.18) 10.851 ms 11.199 ms 11.065 ms 6 ns99.rookdns.com (195.122.154.4) 13.548 ms ns99.rookdns.com (195.122.154.3) 11.585 ms ns99.rookdns.com (195.122.154.4) 11.800 ms 7 159.100.232.24 (159.100.232.24) 10.657 ms 10.522 ms 11.088 ms $ traceroute 159.100.232.148 traceroute to 159.100.232.148 (159.100.232.148), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets 1 <gateway> (<home network>) 0.623 ms 0.395 ms 0.374 ms 2 * 217.0.117.111 (217.0.117.111) 9.218 ms 7.082 ms 3 87.190.166.114 (87.190.166.114) 9.096 ms 87.190.166.98 (87.190.166.98) 9.226 ms 87.190.166.102 (87.190.166.102) 8.590 ms 4 217.239.45.234 (217.239.45.234) 10.668 ms 10.688 ms 10.369 ms 5 193.159.226.18 (193.159.226.18) 11.075 ms 10.754 ms 11.368 ms 6 ns99.rookdns.com (195.122.154.4) 11.473 ms ns99.rookdns.com (195.122.154.3) 10.837 ms ns99.rookdns.com (195.122.154.4) 11.158 ms 7 159.100.232.148 (159.100.232.148) 10.411 ms 10.945 ms 11.182 ms
Look at the UDP datagram roundtrip times (a.k.a. latency, or "ping") of the last hop: 11 milliseconds tells me that the responder cannot possibly be over the pond from an EU point of view. Any transatlantic route has at the least a latency of 100 - 140 ms. The values you are seeing displayed in-game are not simply the networks' latency, they're an internal value of the server cluster, factoring in the load on the internal CPUs and switches.
There's a more reliable way to check for the addresses being used by ESO: open a command line window with administrative privileges while ESO is running. Type "netstat -bnp TCP". Look for a line saying [ESO.exe]; all lines below this one, up to the next parentheses, show the open TCP sockets of the game. There should be two lines. Note the IP addresses (followed by :<port number>) in the "Remote address" column and use them in the following commands. You can type
ping -t <IP address>
for a continuous ICMP ECHO_REQUEST timing (break off with [Ctrl]-[C]), or try
tracert <IP address>
for a list of hops (routing stations) from your network to the server farm.
That being said, if you're actually seeing open TCP sockets to the 198.20.200.* address range belonging to the exo.exe process, are you absolutely and positively sure that you're not playing on the NA server (or the PTS for that matter)?Edited by KhajitFurTrader on June 7, 2015 6:06PM1 -
ZOS_MichelleA✭✭✭✭✭Hi there, folks! As this thread is referencing a Reddit conversation that is over a year old and contains outdated information, we will be closing it.
The European megaserver has been in Germany since July of last year, and you can see our announcement/details about this migration on our website here: http://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/2014/07/28/european-megaserver-migration.1
This discussion has been closed.