IP address of the Australia East Data Centre (Need to run traceroute to see where lag is ...

@megalexandros - As soon as you start experiencing issues with your console's nework performance, head over to your computer and run a tracert/traceroute to the following IP address: 134.170.29.25 (Xbox Live server)

tracert/traceroute is an extension of the ping command, which will also generate information for each router on a given route.

Report back with your result.

The plot thickens, tonight my GT had problems signing in from an MU at a friends place. I've run new cabling and through traceroutes have seen no packet loss from my router, to any of the IPs I've tested. Is there an XBL IP i can traceroute/ping and show
my results?

@CODukes4

No. This is 100% reliant on localised Microsoft Data Centre access and some countries simply will not have that at launch.

Australia/New Zealand down under, South Africa and a few other nations do NOT have Microsoft data centres as yet and it's clearly impacting gameplay.

For anyone that doubts that statement, change your data centre in the beta to anything over 200 ping and try playing this game with the locals to that data centre.

The game is almost unplayable.

Australians 'best' ping from east cost is to US West. We get 2 bars connectivity there whilst the US locals are full - we get creamed. It's not even a contest. It's not fun. It's a frustrating mess.

The 'best' we get right now is connecting to SE Asia where we get on average 1 or 2 bars (or 3 if you live in Western Australia) and the ONLY saving grace is that because Titanfall / Xbox isn't happening in that region of the world, the games are largely
dominated by other Australians.

So we get the good grace of all playing on an equally garbage connection on a server outside of the country.

It's 'playable', but very far from ideal and the worst thing is that neither Microsoft, Respawn or EA will step up and update the playerbase down under on what the hell is happening with our local data centre situation.

We know it's coming, but it's not likely to be here day one for Titanfall unless sales down under crash to earth with a thud.

Fact is, unless you're a US based Xbox gamer, Microsoft doesn't really give a damn about you and your enjoyment of their products - then they have the audacity to wonder why they are struggling to compete with their main rival in international locations.

I'm all for the Microsoft Azure service vision, but it's pointless to push out a platform that's reliant on that technology if you don't have locally sourced data centres to begin with and worse - deny those localities the option to use alternatives.

Titanfall is the biggest FPS for the platform since friggen Halo and it's a complete travesty that Microsoft is ignoring the fact lag is killing this game outside of the US environment right now.

So what is your traceroute that eill help xbox more

Because they need to see yoir dns settings and where it is reporting

Are you using a vpn?

Every packet of data which travels over the Internet to you has your IP address as well as the IP address it came from. Every packet you send has your IP address as well as the IP address of the destination. That's a fundamental
of the Internet.

If the cyberbully uses a non-Microsoft program on a PC to see where packets are going, that's not something Microsoft can control. However, that is cyber-crime and your ISP can cooperate with law enforcement to trace the cyberbully
if you ask them.