30 minutes later the globalcenter joke continues - only i'm not laughing

[Grant Farrington]

Same trace as before, only 30 minutes later. I can't believe you make
up us all put up with this absurd nonsense. Every day, every week,
since sonoma began. For f*cks sake get rid of them.

* Unknown Host * 199.37.127.185
11 319ms 326ms 2% 166 / 170 315ms / 394ms
s11-1-45M.br1.SFO1.globalcenter.NET 206.132.110.149
12 641ms 563ms 47% 89 / 170 323ms / 1413ms
pos2-1-155M.cr1.SFO1.globalcenter.NET 206.132.110.133
13 343ms 383ms 74% 44 / 170 324ms / 1461ms
pos5-0-622M.wr2.SFO1.globalcenter.NET 206.132.110.121
14 558ms 596ms 17% 140 / 170 320ms / 1148ms
pos4-0-622M.cr2.SNV2.globalcenter.NET 206.132.254.58
15 539ms 594ms 14% 146 / 170 317ms / 1162ms
pos7-0-622M.cr1.SNV.globalcenter.NET 206.132.151.18
16 407ms 413ms 12% 149 / 170 397ms / 574ms
pos5-0-0-155M.hr1.SNV.globalcenter.NET 206.251.0.105
17 342ms 444ms 74% 44 / 170 329ms / 1941ms
central-gw4.owo.com 206.251.7.246
18 586ms 612ms 15% 143 / 170 321ms / 1159ms

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Fazza - Jolly Swagman [BA]

Guildmaster of the Blue Heelers,
Sonoma Shard (Ultima Online)

[Rick]

Bad news, apparently, is that they're moving the east coast servers to
another globalcenter location. It appears to indicate that since the
current location isn't going to be responsible for the machines much longer
anyway, they're just ignoring them, and letting the connections crash at
will. That's one theory at least.
Perhaps we can look forward to bigger and better crashes at the new
location?

Cynically yours,
Rick

Grant Farrington wrote in message <3759e0e3...@news.satcom.net.au>...

[Little WhiteDove]

In article <7jaogn$7u5$1...@birch.prod.itd.earthlink.net>, "Rick"
<kafk...@sprintmail.com> wrote:

|Bad news, apparently, is that they're moving the east coast servers to
|another globalcenter location. It appears to indicate that since the
|current location isn't going to be responsible for the machines much longer
|anyway, they're just ignoring them, and letting the connections crash at
|will. That's one theory at least.
| Perhaps we can look forward to bigger and better crashes at the new
|location?
|
|Cynically yours,
|Rick
|

I'm having Great Lakes flashbacks...

As soon as I hit GM archery on GL last spring, they moved the shard to
Texas. I was never able to play there again. UOTrace showed extremely
poor connections though I don't recall the exact numbers. After several
weeks of standing at the bank praying for the lag to clear I finally
gave all my stuff away and started from scratch on Atlantic. I left UO
completely for six months and started over a few months ago and guess
what -- I just hit GM archery. Now they are moving Atlantic!!!

I really felt that OSI should have been a little more supportive during
that fiasco. I'd say 30% of the people I knew on GL had to switch
shards. We were told it was a temporary move but to the best of my
knowledge it's still in Texas. GL was fine for all of us until they
moved it, but OSI offered no condolences or aid in rebuilding what they
had taken away from us. Sure, it's all virtual items, but it took a lot
of tedious work and real time to earn it and just as much to rebuild.

At least this time if they screw it up I will be able to transfer my
gold to another shard via one of the shard trading companies. I'm
worried, however, that I will once again have to leave my guildmates
and friends.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed that THIS move will be an improvement.

-Little WhiteDove
Atlantic