No idea how reliable the info is, or how they got ahold of it, but if true it could explain why some people lag unexpectedly on some servers if the location isn’t where it might appear to be from the server name.
Edit: some of the info seems a bit dodgy, columns B & C for USNW don’t match col E, so maybe it’s bunkum.
Edit2: plotted the coords in cols B & C, gives this map:
Just because an IP block is registered to a company at a geographic location doesn’t mean those IPs are necessarily at that location. Subnets and individual IPs can and do migrate between DCs frequently. AWS do cluster the US DCs though. Europe and Asia look a little more dispersed.
usw2 is more near central California and usWest is somewhere in the greater los angeles area. USW3 was in Nor Cal, Bay Area if I remember correctly. That was according to an old bookmark I had, that I probably snagged off of someone from a random conversation about nothing (I really don’t remember where I got it). Didn’t have a spreadsheet, but it contained street view map. It’s long gone now now that i’m not consistently and foolishly syncing everything like I used to…
That was the entire point of the spreadsheet. Column B and C were taken from this page: http://www.realmofthemadgod.com/char/list
RotMG’s servers tells you the name, latitude and longitude, and ip, of every server (that you see in the Servers list). When plotting those coordinates, you get one map. When grabbing the actual geolocation of those IPs, you get a completely different location. Also one server has an invalid latitude and longitude.
Did you miss the “G’day, Oryx” patchnotes? When the Australian server was added, they changed the locations of servers, “mostly US” ones.
THE OLD SERVER LOCATION MAP IS OUTDATED, regardless of whether or not the geolocation is correct or not.
