This year our game server provider will be adding new datacenters and pop locations in Europe and Asia. Now while our server will still be in DC this does mean that we will have a direct internal fiber line going to these locations. This will cause a huge drop in latency in these parts of the world. For those in Europe you may see pings as low as 40ms! These expansions are planed to be operational at the end of the year:


Typically areas within 100miles of a pop or datacenter will see very low lag depending on their ISP and home network configuration.

Each of the points of presence we add in Asia and Europe effectively wrap our 40ms ring around millions of users that may have previously relied on several hops on several providers to get to the SoftLayer network, and as a result, we’re able to power a faster and more consistent network experience for those users.
I hope that those of you that play outside the US will enjoy the lower pings and hopefully this will also allow us to better fill the servers at night!