Physical Server Locations for Classic Release

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I know we will probably get a list of the servers and whether the realm time is western/mountain/central/eastern… but something that will be just as important or more important for a lot of people will be the physical location of these servers. Just because a servers in-game time is eastern doesn’t mean that it’s located on the east coast, the physical server could be in the west coast giving you horrible ping if you play from the east coast.

Are you guys planning on releasing information on the physical location of the servers so people know where they will get the best ping/ms? At least for me and my friends this is the most important thing… I’m surprised I haven’t seen any threads regarding this important information the community needs so I thought I’d request this.

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I believe they have servers in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Sydney, Australia. Unless something has changed in the past few years that I’m not aware of, but that’s what it’s been for a while. I’m on ET servers connecting to Chicago and have super low ping in Retail. I’m sure Classic will be the same.

Edit: Also they have IP address information in the support articles - https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/7870

I’m sure if need be it’ll be updated for Classic but I have to assume they’ll be using the same server locations.

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Yeah I know that. I used to play on Area52 and its one of the servers that is eastern time and you get good ping 20-50ms because its in Chicago datacenter. But there are other servers i.e (Rivendare) where you get 100ms and the server time is still eastern but the datacenter is in Los Angeles… Just because the server time is eastern does not mean that you will get good ping and that the physical server is stationed near you.

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they had servers in Amsterdam and Sweden a few months after launch

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Sorry they do have other regional servers but I was just posting what’s relevant for the NA audience since we’re on the US forums.

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I am curious. It’s weird with locations though. In one game I play (LOA) the servers are literally an hour drive away and hosted on Verizon. I have Verizon FIOS 1gbps fiber. So I get a 9ms ping while my friends on the west coast pull about 120ms. But I connect to an overseas server on another game and rarely go above 75ms.

Connections are wonky. It’s not just distance but the number of hops. When you connect to a server, there could be 1-2 hops or 8…

Edit: For those who don’t know, hops is network nodes you get redirected through.

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Then make sure to pick a server in CH. :slight_smile: They won’t be announcing Classic servers until later in the summer, so there’s no point to worrying about it now.

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That would be awesome! If at the same time they reveal the server list, to actually list where the servers are going to be hosted.
Specially since we are going to be able to reserve names 2 weeks prior to release. I’d like to reserve my names on servers that are going to give me the best ping/ms.

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That is exactly what I was thinking Spoopy!

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I don’t think theres going to be true dedicated servers this time, Blizzard is going to use their new server tech. It will still have regions and time zones but it wont always be from 1 location, it will just be whatever “layer” your on at the time like the modern game is doing now.

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Bump. So which is it? Does layering render physical server location irrelevant? Any news?

(Just a bump, not expecting you personally to know. )