Non-SanFran based sims?

Which sims are hosted in Dallas and any other non-SF locations?

My two sims, Zebulon and Raleigh Island, are in Texas, according to the Sim Neighbors website. http://neighbours.maxcase.info/

I don't think there are any resident-compiled lists... If you're wondering about a particular sim, you can try Sim Neighbors by Max Case.

Sue's in my sim right now, I think im gonna faint! I'd get her autograph, but our AV's can't grip pens very well

I've never been to a SanFran sim. I've been to the Province town one though by Anshe Chung.

Just get a no copy/mod Notecard from her with her name on it

This may not be 100% certain, but as I understand it, most (all?) class 5 sims are in the Dallas area. Plus a number of class 4, but not all that many.

So if the sim is new, say from about mid Nov. onward, it's probably in Dallas.

Another way to check is to get the sim's address (it's under Help) and do a traceroute via any freebie traceroute app on the internet. That will show you where your sim is from.

Note that all I've said has been inferred, and should not be taken as hard fact. but may be a good basis for further understanding.

lol

For those that are curious, she doesn't look like a spinning hand at all.

Very neat little tool! As I suspected, both of my current sims are in California. I've had much less trouble with the older sim servers based in California.

Phooey on the Class 5 servers in Texas - it's useless to have a fast server if it's always crashing. The one I recently moved out of that I had all kinds of problems with was in Texas.

well, both of my servers have been in texas for as long as I know, and they are quite stable. I think it has less to do with which location they are in, and more to do with ow many coffee cups are stacked on top

Thanks for the answers.

I've got this thingie that shows the region name and hos url.

Do the numbers like sim2578 enable you to tell anything useful? Such as, Dallas numbers start at such and such?

if you read the Sim Neighbors site I linked in my first post, that used to tell you what class, but now it isn't reliable for that. However you can see see which sims share the same server, which is exactly what Sim Neighbors tries to do. I think he uses the IP address to figure out the location, just as Desmond described.

Or perhaps whether or not there's coffee in the coffee cups?

I've heard anecdotal evidence that one's sim performance may be related to where the person is and the connections between the two places - like the Europeans having trouble with their connections to servers in certain locations. That doesn't make sense for me, since I'm in the U.S. - but I do have trouble with those darn Texas folks - whoops, I mean servers - Hmm, perhaps my attitude toward the Texans is the problem....

Suezanne, I've heard that the numbers used to be useful, but that they've moved stuff around so you can't tell anymore based on the numbers where the server is located. Nice try, though!

Took me a while to figure that comment out.

The spinning hand icon is in the Second Life program folder in the skins html folder

my computer is acting up requiring a reboot right at the moment

i can not use any punctuation or capital letters hee hee

Put the host url into something like this:

http://www.net.princeton.edu/traceroute.html

I'm not sure how accurate it is, but my in-world rule of thumb is if the IP addie starts with 66. or 69. it's hosted in the original colocation, if it starts with 64. it's hosted in Texas.

Texas seems to route over "cheaper" bandwidth lines, and it also depends on whether the asset/database servers are distributed/mirrored across both colocations or not and whether the SF<->Texas link is separate from the link we all use to connect to the sims.

If all the asset/database servers are in SF, and the Texas network is saturated and everything has to go across the same wire I think that would explain all the problems that plague newer sims far more than the older ones.

But that's an uneducated guess so who knows .

That's how it seems to me, when I can still tp and rez in older islands and mainland but my newer island (with our stores on, sadly) tanks hard during hgh concurrency.

7 as-0-0.bbr2.Dallas1.Level3.net (64.159.0.137) 37.826 ms ae-0-0.bbr1.Dallas1.Level3.net (64.159.1.109) 37.404 ms as-0-0.bbr2.Dallas1.Level3.net (64.159.0.137) 37.762 ms
8 ae-11-53.car1.Dallas1.Level3.net (4.68.122.77) 37.630 ms ae-21-54.car1.Dallas1.Level3.net (4.68.122.109) 38.095 ms ae-11-53.car1.Dallas1.Level3.net (4.68.122.77) 37.650 ms
9 DATABANK-HO.car1.Dallas1.Level3.net (4.71.12.250) 38.675 ms 37.647 ms 38.360 ms
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still chewing its way through!