Location: QLD Australia
ISP: iiNet
NA: 285ms~
JP: 130ms~

Pretty huge difference here.

Try pinging here:
NA - square-enix-montreal.com
JP - jp.square-enix.comAltena

I got pretty much the exact same results as before

from Sydney
TPG is my provider
NA - 268ms
JP - 114ms

A few Synapse members tested from various locations (only to the JP server based on the patch/login - this was before you guys posted NA address to try) and the results were as follows:

x6
Location: SG
ISP: SingNet Fibre
JP: 90ms~

x3
Location: NZ
ISP: Snap VDSL
JP: 210ms~

x3
Location: QLD AU
ISP: iiNet
JP: 130ms~

1x
Location: VIC AU
ISP: TPG
JP: 135ms~

Location: Sydney, AUS
ISP: iiNet
Montreal: 245ms
Japan: 117ms

Physical Location: Perth, Australia
ISP: iiNet
Montreal: 307ms
Tokyo: 153ms

Disregard, just realized Oceania onry

Brisbane, AU
ISP: Telstra

NA/EU Server : 347ms
JP Server: : 210ms

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Melbourne, AU
ISP: Optus
NA/EU Server: 357ms
JP Server: 320ms

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Australia to Japan

It looks like anyone in Australia on Optus may be looking at 300+ms to either server, due to poor routing by the ISP.

The best performing ISPs in Australia so far, look to be TPG, iiNET and Internode, with reports of 130-150ms for some, and low 200ms for others.

The largest carrier in Australia, Telstra, looks to be averaging around 200-220ms for most users.

Australia to Montreal

Need more data. But given the geographical distance between Australia to Montreal, I don't expect to see any pings below 250ms. Results so far from most Australians have been around the 300-350ms mark.

Auckland, NZ.

square-enix-montreal.com : 215ms
jp.square-enix.com : 150ms

But speedtest.net and pinging other .jp websites show at least 260+ms for Japan so guess will need to test live servers to get better idea for me in NZ :)

Location: NZ, North Island
ISP: Telecom
Montreal server : 184.107.107.176: <271ms>
JP Server : 202.67.53.202: <296ms>

Physical Location: Canberra, Australia
ISP: iPrimus (piggybacking off Optus infrastructure)
IP Tested: 184.107.107.176
Average ping: 265ms

Physical Location: Canberra, Australia
ISP: iPrimus (piggybacking off Optus infrastructure)
IP Tested: square-enix-montreal.com
Average ping: 265ms

Physical Location: Canberra, Australia
ISP: iPrimus (piggybacking off Optus infrastructure)
IP Tested: 202.67.53.202
Average ping: 156ms

Physical Location: Canberra, Australia
ISP: iPrimus (piggybacking off Optus infrastructure)
IP Tested: jp.square-enix.com
Average ping: 156ms


I'll still be testing reaction and lag times between the various server locations during beta. I've explicitly refused to vote on location yet for this purpose.

Edit: Tracerouts.

C:\Users\Catapult>tracert -d square-enix-montreal.com

Tracing route to square-enix-montreal.com [184.107.107.176]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 35 ms 35 ms 34 ms 203.134.7.79
3 35 ms 34 ms 35 ms 203.134.6.82
4 35 ms 35 ms 34 ms 210.50.143.210
5 35 ms 35 ms 35 ms 203.134.2.6
6 35 ms 65 ms 35 ms 203.134.2.246
7 179 ms 180 ms 179 ms 203.134.2.154
8 183 ms 182 ms 182 ms 77.67.78.181
9 273 ms 323 ms 273 ms 89.149.181.25
10 273 ms 273 ms 274 ms 173.241.130.106
11 273 ms 273 ms 273 ms 184.107.1.110
12 274 ms 274 ms 273 ms 72.55.128.44
13 266 ms * 268 ms 184.107.107.176

Trace complete.

C:\Users\Catapult>tracert -d jp.square-enix.com

Tracing route to jp.square-enix.com [202.67.53.202]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 35 ms 35 ms 34 ms 203.134.7.79
3 34 ms 34 ms 35 ms 203.134.6.66
4 59 ms 35 ms 34 ms 210.50.143.210
5 36 ms 35 ms 36 ms 203.134.72.201
6 36 ms 35 ms 36 ms 203.134.72.10
7 156 ms 155 ms 155 ms 203.134.2.110
8 157 ms 158 ms 155 ms 203.105.73.45
9 160 ms 170 ms 159 ms 129.250.4.232
10 156 ms 158 ms 160 ms 61.213.162.162
11 157 ms 159 ms 157 ms 61.120.146.94
12 155 ms 157 ms 157 ms 219.117.144.66
13 160 ms 156 ms 155 ms 219.117.144.53
14 157 ms 156 ms 157 ms 219.117.146.141
15 160 ms 161 ms 157 ms 219.117.146.106
16 168 ms 161 ms 159 ms 202.67.53.202

Trace complete.