![]() But only time will tell.Īlso, if you want to get a rough estimate about what your pings will be like when playing on US servers, you can probably ping 64.25.32.9 to get an idea. Note, once the game releases, they may spread the gameservers across the country (like WoW does). And as it would be silly (extra management overhead) to have the game servers in a different location than the login servers, we can assume the game servers will also be in Dallas, TX. Having a ping of just above 1ms tends to mean that the server I'm pinging is pretty close (within a few miles).Īll this leads me to believe that the login servers are in Dallas, TX. In contrast, pings to servers that I know are in Chicago are around 28ms. My ping times to 64.25.32.9 from my server are only 1.15ms. I happen to have a server in a datacenter in Dallas, TX. Right now, 64.25.32.9 is the only server pingable out of those 4 addresses. No matter where you do the traceroute from we see the last 3 jumps before the login server are always these 3 addresses (also all owned by NC Soft): Next, lets traceroute one of these 4 login servers. Doing a search on ARIN we see that these IP addresses are owned by NC Soft. This has 4 possible IP addresses (the ip addresses returned from doing a DNS lookup): All the game files are hosted on this service, so its fast to download for everyone.Īfter the game patches and the client starts up, it resolves the address This is a lookup for the Akamai (content distribution network). With some minimal snooping, it looks like the Guild Wars 2 servers are located in Dallas, TX.įirst, when the GW2 patcher starts up, it tries to connect to:
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