Hello im from trP gaming community

[Duracell]

I wish CAL would make Portland an official location for servers. Then I could actually ping decently, although Comcast could find a way to screwszor it up.

There is absolutely no reason why you can't use a Portland server for CAL matches. The only company I know of that has any widely was MoReal, and only one decent team used one, BKS, but every other team in M always played on their own server for 2nd half because it was so terrible. As it stands there aren't very many big data centres there so you aren't going to see it, that and it isn't like Denver or Dallas where it has a secluded amount of base players. That is to say if they don't ping well there, then it's fairly up in the air, almost no-one pings well to Portland and not NorCal or Seattle, and if you do, your ISP is just terrible. Which is too bad, because leagues are more and more becoming national even on the lower levels.

[Latro]

There are HUGE data centers here in Northern Virginia, and a TON of server hosts...

I ping 5 to so many of them... And I play only west coast servers cause I use ping to my advantage.

p90 for the win! YAYA P90!

[Duracell]

You're practically inviting me to make fun of you but I won't.

Anyways, this was the lowest ping of the night, the average was probably around 550, and of course we had 2 matches and no 6th, most of this featured me using a p90 as it was the only practical cheap gun to get out a lot of rounds hoping to do damage. On a side note, playing 4v5 is brutal.

[Labyrinthine]

You're practically inviting me to make fun of you but I won't.

And you're practically inviting me to call you lofty, but I won't.

[Jedakiah]

As it stands there aren't very many big data centres there so you aren't going to see it, that and it isn't like Denver or Dallas where it has a secluded amount of base players. That is to say if they don't ping well there, then it's fairly up in the air, almost no-one pings well to Portland and not NorCal or Seattle, and if you do, your ISP is just terrible.

Yup nobody pings well to the north west corner of the US.  Not even the people that live there or close to it.  And anyone that does ping well needs to fix this issue. 

Me for example, on a couple different ISPs I get half the latency from a Seattle server when compared to Salt Lake.  But I'm one of the minority (millions) of people that this "terrible" problem happens to. 

[Duracell]

As it stands there aren't very many big data centres there so you aren't going to see it, that and it isn't like Denver or Dallas where it has a secluded amount of base players. That is to say if they don't ping well there, then it's fairly up in the air, almost no-one pings well to Portland and not NorCal or Seattle, and if you do, your ISP is just terrible.

Yup nobody pings well to the north west corner of the US.  Not even the people that live there or close to it.  And anyone that does ping well needs to fix this issue. 

Me for example, on a couple different ISPs I get half the latency from a Seattle server when compared to Salt Lake.  But I'm one of the minority (millions) of people that this "terrible" problem happens to. 

You live in Utah correct, because that would make total sense. Living in MT I had the same problem,, but it's to be expected, it isn't the NW on the grid.  The major lines running that way do poorly, and most of them are routed through California anyway. The people who live in the real NW, Oregon and WA, do in fact ping very well to the servers here so I don't know what you're talking about.

[Duracell]

You're practically inviting me to make fun of you but I won't.

And you're practically inviting me to call you lofty, but I won't.

Cal Open:

Get out of it. 

[Jedakiah]

I live in northwestern portion of northwest Montana of the North West US.  From the trace routes I've done my traffic to Seattle and to Salt Lake was pretty direct, no going through Cali. 

I ping better to Seattle over Salt Lake.  And I'm not among a minority of people that this happens to.  And that's my point in a nutshell. 

I understand that because Utah is in the center of the US it will have more traffic routed through it, but that does not mean that it is always going to have a lower ping than Seattle.  There's a reason why Seattle servers are so popular.  Many people, even in Canada find them to be fast. 

I guess I should feel retarded for arguing over the internet. 

[Duracell]

I was wrong actually I thought you meant the other way around, your first and second paragraphs confused me. Do you live in Missoula? Bresnan or Cable mt? Every time Ive connected from there or seen other people their ping to Seattle is still pretty ugly, but I guess in that case you don't have much of a choice (although there is one Boise server I know of.)

On a side note, for people living within the city limits in Seattle, if the server is on internap and you are on comcast (and you dont have much choice) you get sent to San-Francisco and back again, it's sad business for us, and also bad business for companies, thats why Hi-Def pulled out of Seattle, perhaps now that they're off it they'll come back

[Jedakiah]

I see.

I live 100+ miles north of Missoula.  There is not much choice for ISPs here either.  You have Centurytel or ISPs that piggyback off of Centurytel's pipes.  And the occasional Bresnan person.  But I was under the impression Bresnan was universally a bad ISP. 

That's a crappy deal with Comcast in Seattle.  It's in their best interests to provide direct routes as it frees up their lines and gives them a better service to provide. 

Hey, speaking of CenturyTel.  There is supposedly thirty ISPs that are experimenting with nebuad.  Of which only CenturyTel claims to use nebuad.  I've read up on this grose violation of privacy, and I've heard the whole "it's anonymous and won't identify you" crap.  But it's a closed source, proprietary hardware, system with a weak cookie based optout.  There is no way I want them collecting my browsing history, but also no way that I'm going to tell Firefox to stop clearing Cookies upon exit.  I'm furious over this. 

[Labyrinthine]

You're practically inviting me to make fun of you but I won't.

And you're practically inviting me to call you lofty, but I won't.

Cal Open:

Get out of it. 

I've gotta get out of CAL-Bad first.