Realms name AND location by datacenter

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So we can claim up to 3 character names on August 13th, that’s great but how do I know which realms provide me the best latency if I can’t enter the world and try it out? How am I going to properly choose a Realm for my character names without this crucial information?

I’m asking that whenever Blizzard announces the realm names they also specify where each one is located. For example realms from Chicago’s datacenter provide me 160ms while any other is 200+ for me. It is indeed a difference.

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aren’t all realms physically at the same place?

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I don’t think there is any real purpose to subscribe 2 weeks early to create your character and reserve your name. I probably won’t decide my realm for a few hours after launch. I need to give streamers and their fans time to pick other servers apart and avoid them.

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No, google “wow realm list by datacenter”
You can see this in-game by testing realms from diferent datacenters, you’ll notice different latencies, this is very noticeable for players like me who are not NA

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I really wish Blizz would release some detailed info on the realms. People want to know what they’re called, where they’re located and what kind of realms they are.

With the launch so far off yet, they could give us this information so we have some time to plan things.

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Also there is a very likely possibility that Blizzard will only release less than optimal number of servers during the reservation phase and open more new servers shortly after launch to accommodate the load. It also makes Blizzard look better if in the first week of Classic launch, Blizzard open new servers for Classic.

So if Blizzard had planned for a target 30 servers for Classic, they may only release 15 servers for name reservations, leaving 15 more to be open after launch.

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As mentioned by Strád, the servers are in two different locations for US servers.

They will either be in Chicago or in Los Angeles. They used to be in more locations, but the servers were moved to those two locations.

I do recall that the stress test servers from the last test were spread between the two. I do hope they don’t forget to mention server location and time zone, so we can plan our server choice accordingly.

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Is there any difference where I pick up my name? I mean, to make sure I should pick the same name on 3 different servers?

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With today’s infrastructure, the lag should not be a huge factor even if the server is across the country from you.

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Hopefully, given they’re starting in the right zones, they can place the EST and CST ones in Chicago and the PST ones in Los Angeles.

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This is incorrect. The father away you are from a data center, the more hops your connection must take to communicate back and forth. More hops means more chances for hiccups along the way. You’re also much more likely to be affected by major outages and maintenance reroutes in the middle of the night.

I get anywhere from 10-20ms on LA data center servers, and 50-100+ on central and east coast servers. The latency difference when using abilities is noticeable.

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Ya. .I know that

What I said. . is with today’s investiture it’s not as BAD as it was back in 2004

Thanks though

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To be fair that’s correct. The experience nowadays would be acceptable for the average person, compared to how awful it was back in the day.

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And to meet you half way you are also correct.

I used to try and pick my realms I played on based on location too. :slight_smile:

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Those numbers are very optimistically high, They are going to have as few servers as they possibly can in order to prevent underpopulation issues later.

I would not expect much more than 10 servers in each region.

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Since there will be so few servers, I doubt there will be any located anywhere but the HQ datacenters.

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I get similar numbers where I am too.

Usually the East Coast server is still totally playable but if there is any extra latency, I feel it fast on that server.

I would like to be able to pick a server based on time zone at least though if I decide on a guild beforehand, I will have to go where they go, obviously.

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You should be able to make an educated guess by having resmon.exe up open to the network tab when logging in.

If your at the character select screen you’re technically connected to the realm server in question. You can use this to see what your base latency on the server will be. Note this will be your minimum latency , your actual latency on day 1 may be higher.

So you would do this -

  1. Make sure you have Resource Monitor installed and open. I don’t recall if this comes with windows or if you need to install it.
  2. From the Battle.net launcher open classic
  3. Choose the server you want to test and get to the character select screen
  4. Alt-tab to Resource Monitor
  5. Go to the Network tab and “Processes with Network Activity” click the checkbox to the left of Wow.exe (you may have to wait for it to appear or hunt it down as it jumps around a bit)
  6. This filters everything by Wow.exe
  7. Click to Open “TCP Connections”
  8. Servers connect to Remote port 3724 so order the “Remote Port” column in the output so that the higher numbers appear first
  9. Take a look at the connection to port 3724 look along to the “Latency” column

This is of course assuming that the servers you reserve names on will be the same ones that go live.

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I get a 40-50ms difference between LA and Chicago on live.

I live in Chicago. That’s a big enough difference for me.

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The major thing I think they need to do is indicate timezones. I’m not going to want to pick a realm and it turns out to be a PST timezone when I’m EST or something.

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