Guild Wars 2

Like most eu players, i have a lot of lag these days, so at some point, i decided to put the ips that resmon shows me into an ip tracker. I do not know which of the 3 ips is the actual game server, so i just tracked all of them.
Much to my surprise, all of these servers were tracked to austin, america. I tried it on different weeks (maybe different matchups have different servers), and always got the same result. The same tracker was able to track my address quite precisely (only a few kilometers off), so it seems to do a quite good job at locating.

So, i guess the question here is, are we really playing on servers located in america? Or does the tracker not display the location of the hardware behind the ip i give him?

IP locations are not accurate. They’re registered by their owner. All NCSoft’s IPs are registered as Austin, Texas, which is their NA datacenter.

It’s nearly impossible to determine where an IP truly is. To get a more accurate location, tracert the IP and look at the hops it goes through. Use the response time between each hop to roughly estimate the distance. Going overseas for example is going to cost ~100ms.

For example, if I tracert 206.127.159.163, the hop prior to NCSoft’s network is a link to Telia (62.115.43.74). If you lookup that IP, it’s registered to Frankfurt, Germany. Since the change in response time was ~2ms, that would be impossible to go from Germany to Texas. One of them has to be wrong. Go through each hop to get a more accurate picture.