| Quote from: AndyH |
| I would imagine there is going to be some truth in this. Their gaming servers are located in a very strange place, even Americans get high pings (I tried some pings yesterday from Seattle and got higher pings than I do from the UK...). It is surprising they do not have European servers, particularly as they are a French company. |
Ubisoft i think are a French Canadian company, the sell their games on a global scale, they should have servers in Asia and Europe as well as in the USA , that should be linked ,But with ubisoft that will never happen, maybe it's the way the French Canadians are ?
Tinet will from it's London data centre route to NewYork and then to Montreal or it may if routed from Manchester route to Ireland then Montreal, And if it goes from Manchester and the ISP has direct peering with tinet, no level3 ect is needed It's a lot more of a direct route than TATA is providing There is no logical reason why tata are sending traffic from their NewYork data centre via Chicago 788 mile by road & 711.96 miles as the crow would fly then another 848 miles by road and 743.78 mi by Air travel when New York to Montreal is 334.30 mile by airline So even if we said that the direct route would be 500mile the crazy way that TATA are currently routing is at lease 3 times as long @ a modest 1500miles and that sort of distance doesn't have a detrimental impact on the latency because it uses fibre cables and travels at nearly the speed of light , well as a customer from my view point it bloody well is doing , and im still waiting for my ISP to do something about it
| Quote from: AndyH |
(Again, please correct me if what I am saying is wrong here...)
There may be a reason that is happening (and maybe Level3 are not at fault). If Level3 have a large amount of traffic for Ubisoft, Tinet might not want this to go via London. Someone tried to change something yesterday and you had the traffic go to Paris and back to London 3 times!
Similarly, Ubisoft might have a cheaper peering arrangement with Tata and want more traffic to be routed via them.
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There is always a reason for everything that happens, But whilst you maybe correct about level3, You may also be wrong , i would say that they route traffic automatically with very little human intervention So if their system has goofed out , negligence would be the reason and it would be their fault, But if you are in part correct, it would possibly go some way as to explain why ISP's such as Zen peer directly with Tinet ,maybe because they realised that the alternatives via level3 and tata where not fit for purpose ? or they where getting too many complaints from customers , Not only this ,but it could be down to the type of service that the ISP is paying for and how & where they are able to connect to their peers , Looking at some of the BT retail tracerts, they are a real mess, and have a lot of hops near double what i would expect, and of course this adds even more to the latency ,
One of the many reasons why i would never be a BT retail customer
Well my patience is wearing thin now, A message to Plusnet : I would really like to know what is going on with this,is this de-pref of AS6453.net going to ever happen & if so when, if not ,why not ? A straight answer please without excuses would be appreciated
