Runes of Magic US / AU

I don't see what you are confused about - unless they said that they were being caused by the same reason.

From what you have posted - they said EU servers also had ping spikes and gave the reason. The implication would be that something similar is or could be happening in the US.

Or did they say that this was causing the US spikes as well?

The Runes of Magic servers for US, as far as my research tells me, are hosted in Miami. I'm not aware of any issues down near Miami, but I do see that the New England area as well as the Southwest are experiencing some internet connectivity problems to the rest of the world.

I regularly use http://www.akamai.com/html/technology/dataviz1.html and http://www.internetpulse.net/ to monitor the internet for my job. You can see that Verizon is having some connection problems and packet loss to some other providers. Keep this in mind to try and diagnose some connection problems to other sources.

Problems in Germany do not affect the US servers, period.

Having said that, I seem to recall that over the weekend and during the voice chat meeting (which was hosted on a German TS server), there were storms in the Florida Panhandle. Those storms might have affected connections to the US servers.

As others (specifically Jguy) have mentioned, regional connection issues can also affect latency times from where you[ are and the US servers, mainly through re-routing delays. While small in themselves, the actual times in milliseconds are multiplied, depending on how often the connection gets re-routed.

YMMV.

kalvan i disagree, the panhandle is way up north, a 10 hour drive from miami to be exact, i live in miami and im getting extremely high ping rates, also just regular storms here (same all year round), nothing out of the ordinary and the lag spikes started around the time of the "quest fixing" besides unless im mistaken the US server reports back to germany otherwise they couldnt monitor our gameplay, so it would look more like...

my pc >> miami server >> germany server >> miami server >> my pc

somewhere in there packets are going poof

Quoted from "karmakarma"

kalvan i disagree, the panhandle is way up north, a 10 hour drive from miami to be exact, i live in miami and im getting extremely high ping rates, also just regular storms here (same all year round), nothing out of the ordinary and the lag spikes started around the time of the "quest fixing" besides unless im mistaken the US server reports back to germany otherwise they couldnt monitor our gameplay, so it would look more like...

my pc >> miami server >> germany server >> miami server >> my pc

somewhere in there packets are going poof

It depends on which end of the pan you grab! <ouchies>

I said panhandle and meant peninsula...