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Weert, Netherlands 52ms

PS: it's usually better to ping an IP from someone in the same rack and with the same service plan as your server will be, depending on their infrastructure it could make a difference. /smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />

Guys could a few US players with higher Lag ping the following server for me :

www.proserve.nl

They are held in high regard as having stable, fast gaming servers for the euro gamers, lets see what you guys make of it. Thanks /smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />

From stockholm, Sweden.

A server where I would be able to hit stuff?!?! /blink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":o" border="0" alt="blink.gif" />

QUOTE $ ping www.keyweb.de
PING www.keyweb.de (62.141.52.5): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 62.141.52.5: icmp_seq=0 ttl=52 time=40.773 ms
64 bytes from 62.141.52.5: icmp_seq=1 ttl=52 time=40.578 ms
64 bytes from 62.141.52.5: icmp_seq=2 ttl=52 time=40.947 ms
64 bytes from 62.141.52.5: icmp_seq=3 ttl=52 time=40.963 ms
64 bytes from 62.141.52.5: icmp_seq=4 ttl=52 time=40.498 ms
64 bytes from 62.141.52.5: icmp_seq=5 ttl=52 time=40.749 ms
64 bytes from 62.141.52.5: icmp_seq=6 ttl=52 time=40.796 ms
64 bytes from 62.141.52.5: icmp_seq=7 ttl=52 time=40.776 ms
64 bytes from 62.141.52.5: icmp_seq=8 ttl=52 time=40.549 ms
64 bytes from 62.141.52.5: icmp_seq=9 ttl=52 time=40.603 ms
64 bytes from 62.141.52.5: icmp_seq=10 ttl=52 time=40.593 ms
64 bytes from 62.141.52.5: icmp_seq=11 ttl=52 time=40.574 ms
64 bytes from 62.141.52.5: icmp_seq=12 ttl=52 time=40.639 ms
64 bytes from 62.141.52.5: icmp_seq=13 ttl=52 time=40.854 ms
64 bytes from 62.141.52.5: icmp_seq=14 ttl=52 time=40.618 ms
64 bytes from 62.141.52.5: icmp_seq=15 ttl=52 time=40.769 ms
64 bytes from 62.141.52.5: icmp_seq=16 ttl=52 time=40.623 ms
64 bytes from 62.141.52.5: icmp_seq=17 ttl=52 time=40.768 ms
64 bytes from 62.141.52.5: icmp_seq=18 ttl=52 time=40.752 ms
64 bytes from 62.141.52.5: icmp_seq=19 ttl=52 time=40.524 ms
64 bytes from 62.141.52.5: icmp_seq=20 ttl=52 time=40.664 ms
--- www.keyweb.de ping statistics ---
21 packets transmitted, 21 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 40.498/40.695/40.963/0.273 ms

$ traceroute www.keyweb.de
traceroute to www.keyweb.de (62.141.52.5), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 c213-100-46-65 (213.100.46.65) 0.596 ms 0.508 ms 0.752 ms
2 cty3-core.gigabiteth0-0.swip.net (130.244.205.121) 0.599 ms 0.356 ms 0.521 ms
3 htg3-core.srp5-0.swip.net (130.244.194.243) 0.503 ms 0.781 ms 0.449 ms
4 netnod-ge-a.sto-1-eth020-15.se.lambdanet.net (194.68.123.141) 5.10 ms 0.771 ms 0.902 ms
5 HAN-7-pos720-0.de.lambdanet.net (81.209.190.17) 18.605 ms 18.664 ms 19.20 ms
6 LEI-3-pos220.de.lambdanet.net (217.71.96.62) 91.946 ms 99.907 ms 51.614 ms
7 KW-ERF3.de.lambdanet.net (217.71.107.118) 38.590 ms 41.484 ms 38.509 ms
8 ns.km12508.keymachine.de (62.141.52.5) 40.778 ms 40.940 ms 40.808 ms[/quote]

Grimmwolf_GB wrote:QUOTE (Grimmwolf_GB @ Oct 28 2006, 10:31 AM) Thank you for posting your pings... It does not really look that good. 170 is not good enough. We will have to look for a different server, I guess.

I'd recommend looking into servers from the uk.
(Afaik almost every connection from US-Europe passes the backbones in London)

P.S.:
I might be wrong, someone pipe up if it is the case /smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />

138 average for me on the proserve.nl Slightly better than the previous server.

Grim_Reaper_4u wrote:QUOTE (Grim_Reaper_4u @ Oct 28 2006, 07:13 AM) Guys could a few US players with higher Lag ping the following server for me :

www.proserve.nl

I'm not from the US (Canada), but that one has an average ping of 179ms for me.

Had 133 ms on the first one, have 122ms on the second... not that great of an improvement.

QUOTE I'd recommend looking into servers from the UK.
(Afaik almost every connection from US-Europe passes the backbones in London)[/quote]

there are some from other countries nowadays i think, but the UK still has by far the most and best.

also i would get an even better ping in the UK, so i recommend it!

btw if you care, my ping to www.proserve.nl is 22, the other one was 36.

if you get it to 10, ill give you a prize!

Not from the USA, but if you put alleg on it, we'll kill some vet or 2, 3... /mrgreen.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="mrgreen.gif" />

Damn, man, it must be almost at the same spot as my provider /tongue.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":P" border="0" alt="tongue.gif" />

UK would be a good place but......... UK providers are notorious for oversubscribing their lines. Generally speaking though UK is a place where all europeans get reasonable ping times, but not great ones. For the rest of europe usually some countries get great pings <40 and others >100 pings but if you base your server in the UK all of them get say 80 ping.


Probably we'd all be better off renting a server in a New Jersey or UK datacenter because then we can all have reasonable ping times. For a really low ping euro server we'd have to put up a poll to see which peeps are from what countries because it depends on the physical network between those countries and peering agreements between different exchanges/providers on what location will be best for hosting an ueber EU server. For datacentres in the same city you can get ping times to a 3rd world country like ... say Slovakia /wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink.gif" /> that are between 30 and 100. It all depends on whether the server you rent is in a location that has an agreement with a company that connects directly to slovakia or not. (usually the cheap ass providers have a limited set of peering agreements via their backbone and thus you might be out of luck if you are from a region which they don't support). Sadly for IW Portugal is also a country that usually has very variable ping times depending on which datacenter/country you use.