Must be an insane setup at the blizzard hosting facility

STRESSTEST · Post by **STRESSTEST** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 9:23 am

http://www.warcraftrealms.com/census.ph ... ertypeid=1

This is the server I play on. 16 THOUSAND+ charactors on this server alone and it's not considered to be one of the high population servers in the list of the MANY available.

CDN_Merlin · Post by **CDN_Merlin** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 9:43 am

Blizzard is the #1 game company to work for or buy games from.

Grendel · Post by **Grendel** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 3:35 pm

No surprise -- they are sitting on a cash cow right now..

Pun · Post by **Pun** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 4:45 pm

wow, 2:1 Alliance to Horde.

Instig8 · Post by **Instig8** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 8:15 pm

i wonder what kind of bandwidth and system they need for this?

CDN_Merlin · Post by **CDN_Merlin** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 8:26 pm

I'd guess a T3 minimum.

EDIT: How bout a OC192? Why stop at 48 right?

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 8:49 pm

T3? What are you, kidding? They've probably at least one OC-48 pipe for each regional server. After all, they did expect WoW to sell better than it did, and they also run StarCraft and Diablo on Battle.net.

Matrix · Post by **Matrix** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 11:22 pm

CDN_Merlin wrote:I'd guess a T3 minimum.

And I host all of the Microsoft servers on my cable modem =)

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 11:26 pm

A T3 hits its limit at about 5 MB/sec each way; now let's say each player on that server uses a measly 1k/sec, that's 16 MB/sec. Definitely NOT a T3 in action there.

WarAdvocat · Post by **WarAdvocat** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 7:35 am

I'm guessing they skimp on bandwidth as much as possible, due to the (relatively) high latency, but yeah, they still need a fat pipe...

AceCombat · Post by **AceCombat** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 4:52 pm

DCrazy wrote:T3? What are you, kidding? They've probably at least one OC-48 pipe for each regional server.

keywords = AT LEAST

Bonz · Post by **Bonz** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 6:03 am

WarAdvocat wrote:I'm guessing they skimp on bandwidth as much as possible, due to the (relatively) high latency, but yeah, they still need a fat pipe...

high latency, your kidding right ? try playing the game before typing bs.
and ace a t3 aint ★■◆●, their is NO way they would even think about running a server on that

WarAdvocat · Post by **WarAdvocat** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 8:22 am

Bonz wrote:
WarAdvocat wrote:I'm guessing they skimp on bandwidth as much as possible, due to the (relatively) high latency, but yeah, they still need a fat pipe...
high latency, your kidding right ? try playing the game before typing bs.

Bonz - Speaking of "typing bs", Thanks for your post...

Please allow me to explain the basis of personal experience upon which I rest my statement, to further edify and amuse you. I will address your two points out of order, if I may:

I play a Level 56 Orc Warrior (/played 16 d, 12 h) on the PVP realm Deathwing, and I have a Tauren Shaman and an Undead Mage on the way up as well. Additionally, I have several characters of varying levels on several other servers, from Gorefiend to Stormreaver to Killrog, among others. Therefore, I believe it is safe to say that I have tried "playing the game".

Regarding Latency: My realm, Deathwing, is one of the "Mountain" servers, as designated by Blizzard. Therefore we can infer that this server is physically located either in, or somewhere in between the states of Montana to the North and Arizona/New Mexico to the South. I would expect a ping in the neighborhood of 100 +/- 30 MS to this area. Given that I consistently experience pings of 250 ms (+/- 30 ms), I would label Deathwing as "(relatively) high latency". Furthermore, I have characters on several servers, and the pings all seem to be higher than one would anticipate given the stated location of the server.

Incidentally, I've noticed that in all of the mmorpg games that I've played, I seem to encounter higher pings than I would expect given the physical locations of the servers. Admittedly, this is anecdotal evidence and personal opinion, as much as anything, but given that my statement was clearly hypothetical to begin with, I feel no further discussion is necessary.

Good day sir.

NWRhino · Post by **NWRhino** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 11:13 am

I don't play, but my friends tell me the ping is pretty high on average.

AceCombat · Post by **AceCombat** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 2:58 pm

Bonz wrote:
WarAdvocat wrote:I'm guessing they skimp on bandwidth as much as possible, due to the (relatively) high latency, but yeah, they still need a fat pipe...
high latency, your kidding right ? try playing the game before typing bs.
and ace a t3 aint ****, their is NO way they would even think about running a server on that

i know a T3 aint squat..... i said AT LEAST a OC-48...

AceCombat wrote:
DCrazy wrote:T3? What are you, kidding? They've probably at least one OC-48 pipe for each regional server.
Keywords = AT LEAST

Matrix · Post by **Matrix** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 4:25 pm

I think he ment to say Merlin.

But everyone blames everything on u, so it probably just rolled out on him

Mobius · Post by **Mobius** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 9:20 pm

These machines, typically, don't have an "Internet Connection" per se. They'll just be sitting in an ISPs data warehouse, plugged into the backbone via 100Mb Ethernet, or Gigabit Eth.

Certainly, our servers in New York, New Jersey and LA are just that: hooked straight into the Backbone on Gigabit Eth.

What's more impressive is how many connections the box can simultaneously handle: it must be one motherfathering system!