Re: USA server relocation
Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2016 5:03 am
This is not true for South American players. The east coast has much better ping. For example, I used to host Florida server and it was the best ping offered for South American players, though some (like Brazillians) still had 140-200 ping. Venezuelans, Costa Ricans, Colombians, etc., had as low as 60 ping. I'm hosting Atlanta now and it used to be 60 ping for Venezuelan players (now 80+, not sure why, similar with Florida). New York would be 80 ping for Venezuelan players.Oblique. wrote:Dallas is a good location for Mexican and South American players. I think having both CAN and USA is enough.
The standard is US west (usually LA, sometimes Phoenix), US east (usually New York, sometimes Boston), and no Canada. We have a US south and a Canada and my guess is that Canada is the least cost effective. ~90% of Canadians live near the border US, thus usually no Canadian servers are offered in online games. Mexicans usually connect to California, while Euro + Latin America - Mexico usually connect to New York.