In which country is the PC EU server located?

Xarraca

I'm a new player and I'm trying to figure out why my latency is so high in this game.
Even during off hours I never go under 100ms.
By comparison in WoW I had 50 to 60 ms. I live in Spain and the WoW server I played on was in France.
How come I get double the latency in this game?

Celephantsylvius_Bornasfinmo

Frankfurt, Germany.

Supposedly one of the best in Europe....

Celephantsylvius_Bornasfinmo

There is also a check system (from what I've heard) where information bypasses the states hence bad performance.

Tandor

Youyouz06 wrote: »

Frankfurt, Germany.

Supposedly one of the best in Europe....

Not according to some German players who have suggested relocation of the servers to France would be beneficial.

Celephantsylvius_Bornasfinmo

I don't think Deustche Telekom has the best reputation yeah.

MartiniDaniels

They have anti-cheating sub-servers located on Madagascar, thus the ping ><

Xarraca

Ok thanks. Well now my latency is at 167ms...and going up. Depressing
Feels like I'm playing on a NA server.

Charon_on_Vacation

i'm living in germany.
ping for wow is around 30.
ping for eso is around 60.

rluke

in feels like its on the moon

b101uk

my own feeling from having private servers for some other games hosted in Frankfurt Germany for the past 4 years, is Frankfurt is somewhat oversubscribed, which has seen pings go from ~35ms (+-5ms) 4 years ago to ~60ms (+-20ms) in that time for me in the UK, I know later this year when it comes time to renew, I wont be using a server host in Frankfurt, I will probably give the NL a try.

finehair

Xarraca wrote: »

Ok thanks. Well now my latency is at 167ms...and going up. Depressing
Feels like I'm playing on a NA server.

funny you should mention that, my ping is way lower in North American server for some reason.

Smaxx

The important thing here is, the "ping" time you see in the game actually isn't just your regular round-trip time (i.e. time from your PC to the server and back). it's the time your current area needs to answer back to your game.

So your latency can change significantly, e.g. when entering a busy city. For example, outside Mournhold, I typically have 68-80ms, while that time jumps by 20-30ms whenever I enter the city walls (there aren't any frame drops causing this).

To check only the latency to the servers, you can open the Windows tool "Resource Monitor" ("resmon.exe") and tick "ESO64.exe" to see the game's connections and their actual latency.

Ratzkifal

Youyouz06 wrote: »

Frankfurt, Germany.

Supposedly one of the best in Europe....

It's funny. Actually it's kind of sad.
Coincidentally, I watched a documentary on that yesterday.

Countries you wouldn't expect have a higher average internet speed than Germany in descending order of speed:

• Romania,
• Czech Republic,
• Ireland,
• Bulgaria,
• Spain

Gb/s is sci-fi to us, even in the largest cities.
Our average mobile upload speed is greater than our average broadband upload speed.

And why is that? Because chancelor Kohl's administration in 1982 decided that copper cables are more important than a country-wide glass-fibre network because with them they could strengthen private television as a counter-balance to what they preceived to be social-democratic propaganda television. So they stopped the running glass-fibre project the previous administration had decided on the year before in favor of more TV copper cables.

Germany also invented the computer mouse first, but the German patent office wouldn't see how it is crossing the "threshold of originality" so no patent was issued and someone else was able to invent the mouse again.

And don't forget, our current chancelor Angela Merkel called the internet "foreign soil to us all"... in 2013... when everyone already had smartphones for a few years. The doge meme was first popularized that year.
Memes will be banned in the EU soon because of us too. Sorry for that btw.

Tl;DR: Don't trust Germans with internet, internet services and internet laws, especially when politics is somehow involved.

le_spy

german internet is a joke and the fact that out of all the countries in europe they decided to put them in germany is also a joke

Xarraca

Smaxx wrote: »

To check only the latency to the servers, you can open the Windows tool "Resource Monitor" ("resmon.exe") and tick "ESO64.exe" to see the game's connections and their actual latency.

In resmon I get 50 to 70ms (which is exactly what I had in WoW) while ingame it shows double that, around 130ms while questing in Auridon at 10:30pm.
Alles gut then I guess.
Thanks for the tip !

zaria

Smaxx wrote: »

The important thing here is, the "ping" time you see in the game actually isn't just your regular round-trip time (i.e. time from your PC to the server and back). it's the time your current area needs to answer back to your game.

So your latency can change significantly, e.g. when entering a busy city. For example, outside Mournhold, I typically have 68-80ms, while that time jumps by 20-30ms whenever I enter the city walls (there aren't any frame drops causing this).

To check only the latency to the servers, you can open the Windows tool "Resource Monitor" ("resmon.exe") and tick "ESO64.exe" to see the game's connections and their actual latency.

This, so to measure you real ping you need to be in an quite place. Tend to have 60 ms from Norway but an friend from South Africa has serious lag, on an busy day in Cyrodil he was not running he was porting kind of sorcerer streak but without the effect or being an sorcerer. He might also run on an crap computer.
ESO also have the problem of not liking some computer setups even if bis level for reasons.

Varana

Germany's subpar internet coverage doesn't really affect players outside the country, though, even with the servers being located in Frankfurt. These things are connected to the outside world through high-speed and high-traffic connections, not the local net.

Sanguinor2

Ratzkifal wrote: »

It's funny. Actually it's kind of sad.
Coincidentally, I watched a documentary on that yesterday.

Countries you wouldn't expect have a higher average internet speed than Germany in descending order of speed:

• Romania,
• Czech Republic,
• Ireland,
• Bulgaria,
• Spain

Gb/s is sci-fi to us, even in the largest cities.
Our average mobile upload speed is greater than our average broadband upload speed.

And why is that? Because chancelor Kohl's administration in 1982 decided that copper cables are more important than a country-wide glass-fibre network because with them they could strengthen private television as a counter-balance to what they preceived to be social-democratic propaganda television. So they stopped the running glass-fibre project the previous administration had decided on the year before in favor of more TV copper cables.

Germany also invented the computer mouse first, but the German patent office wouldn't see how it is crossing the "threshold of originality" so no patent was issued and someone else was able to invent the mouse again.

And don't forget, our current chancelor Angela Merkel called the internet "foreign soil to us all"... in 2013... when everyone already had smartphones for a few years. The doge meme was first popularized that year.
Memes will be banned in the EU soon because of us too. Sorry for that btw.

Tl;DR: Don't trust Germans with internet, internet services and internet laws, especially when politics is somehow involved.

True, my Father worked in the Industry for years, he told me a lot of Horror stories About trying to place better Internet in cities.

red_emu

PC EU server is located deep, deep under ground in a hot, dusty cavern. Servers are cooled with magma and work off floppy discs. Every time you fire an ability, a janitor has to load up a floppy disc while eating a pastrami sandwich. Servers are connected to your client via 1st gen dial up modem, dipped in strawberry jam.

marius_buys

red_emu wrote: »

PC EU server is located deep, deep under ground in a hot, dusty cavern. Servers are cooled with magma and work off floppy discs. Every time you fire an ability, a janitor has to load up a floppy disc while eating a pastrami sandwich. Servers are connected to your client via 1st gen dial up modem, dipped in strawberry jam.

fake news, except the bit about the floppy disc when you're in Gray Host
PS Im stealing this for my discord.

ZOS_Icy

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