I live in Asia but I keep getting servers that are in other region

[Deadwoodx]

Sorry, only a roblox admin can tell why the location is not your country, also try to see if your internet server is in USA internet speed test - Google Search
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[Deadwoodx]

Alright, so I found why your getting random location on basis of data center
So its stated that whoever joins the server first, their location is the server location, but upto what level?

See basically if you live in Antartica, and you play a game, your location won’t be Antartica, it takes the nearby data center located in any nearby country

If there is no data center found it takes longer time to find a server, and therefore after some time you will get the server, but the thing is how are you getting server after some time but not earlier

Look data servers won’t be free all the time, like they rarely be free, when Roblox finds a nearby data center for you, however there is no guarantee, that data center near you is chosen

If no server is found near you, it changes the radius of search to a larger area

Server location is the physical location of the data center where your website is hosted. The data centers can be anywhere in the world. While choosing a web hosting provider, you need to consider the destination of your target audience

Basically roblox searches near you first, later a bit far, until a server is found, so if its more than a bit of time, Roblox is located at US, so roblox might choose the US server

See basically if your at one side of the earth it would be 2 pm, on other side approx 2 am, anyone rarely plays at 2 am, so most of the servers there are free, and most of the servers near your region are occupied, because everyone is awake, so there are less servers available at your side, if you ever noticed this, I tried to play a game which have server location display at night time, I noticed the server location is in my country, even though its 12 am, anyone barely even plays at that time, so it means server location is choosen on basis:

• Network traffic
• Timezones
• Availablity

So when its morning/evening/afternoon or the time where most people play, its also true that when you play at midnight, there is a higher chance, the server location is your country, because all of the servers in your country might be free, so it might be choosen

This is an image representing my geographical location

I live in India, and the circles represent a range, since US,Canada is the opposite side of my country, out of 10, I get USA as the location 8 times, and 2 times as my country, or countries near me

[justhazu (hazu)]

I see, so in this case, there’s nothing I can do to solve this problem right? I think Roblox should add an option that you can select the preferred server region so I could do something else while waiting for an available server and don’t have to rejoin over and over.

[buildthomas]

You should only mark solution if your problem is solved and you don’t need further help.

[Focia19]

Following up on this, are you still experiencing the issue, sir?

[justhazu (hazu)]

Thanks for the reply.
Yes, I’m still experiencing the issue.

[GoodNameOnly (Hashtags)]

I seems to have been able to find out the cause of the issue, asian players (except indian) have players creating servers in US-West (mainly portland server) during peak hours starting in the morning all the way to midnight (tried by using a VPN), I do understand you are trying to balance the load, however from my experience using US-West server in asia gives a high ping and a overall worse experience than slightly overloaded servers.

[GoodNameOnly (Hashtags)]

I created server using Hong Kong IP at around 8am UTC and 4pm Local Time on my starting place, also joined adopt me 10 times, here is the result

Results

– Server Created from my starting place–

1. 128.116.53.99 – Portland, OR, USA
2. 128.116.56.164 – Portland, OR, USA
3. 128.116.55.36 – Portland, OR, USA
4. 128.116.56.203 – Portland, OR, USA
5. 128.116.55.99 – Portland, OR, USA
6. 128.116.54.150 – Portland, OR, USA
7. 128.116.57.82 – Portland, OR, USA
8. 128.116.56.208 – Portland, OR, USA
9. 128.116.54.228 – Portland, OR, USA
10. 128.116.54.220 – Portland, OR, USA
11. 128.116.82.111 – Tokyo, Japan
12. 128.116.55.94 – Portland, OR, USA
13. 128.116.53.145 – Portland, OR, USA
14. 128.116.53.153 – Portland, OR, USA
15. 128.116.53.200 – Portland, OR, USA

– Joining Adopt Me –

1. 128.116.14.79 – Hong Kong
2. 128.116.14.10 – Hong Kong
3. 128.116.83.194 – Tokyo, Japan
4. 128.116.14.93 – Hong Kong
5. 128.116.82.139 – Tokyo, Japan
6. 128.116.14.49 – Hong Kong
7. 128.116.14.13 – Hong Kong
8. 128.116.14.10 – Hong Kong
9. 128.116.14.10 – Hong Kong
10. 128.116.14.79 – Hong Kong

[RuizuKun_Dev (Kitsune)]

this has been happening for the longest time i can remember.
Yes it is still an issue and would be appreciated if this is fixed relatively soon
i do not want my players to experience high ping from issues that are not their own fault

[Focia19]

Can we have an answer to these questions, sir? These are very helpful for us:

1. Those join, is join via “green play button” or “join reserved game”?
2. If it’s joining reserved game, when/who create that reserved server?

Looking globally, the average ping time for Thailand players is around ~100

@justhazu

However, I got an Asia server more frequently when it was late at night so it might be something about

It’s expected if we assume at night there are more available Servers running in Asia for that specific place but less during daytime - matchmaking algorithm by default will match player to other region’s available Servers in most normal cases (Sometime it’s case by case countries policy itself, but what described here is general case)

Let us know about those questions!

[Deadwoodx]

But isn’t it common, how can it be a bug, I mean

Even I get like that
Those join, via green button?
Yes join green button
If its a reserved server
No its not a reserved server

I never got server location of my country, is it a bug or?

[Focia19]

We don’t assume it’s a bug, but an intended behavior because of how the algorithm works by default!
As explained here in this case:

@Focia19

It’s expected if we assume at night there are more available Servers running in Asia for that specific place but less during daytime - matchmaking algorithm by default will match player to other region’s available Servers in most normal cases (Sometime it’s case by case countries policy itself, but what described here is general case)

However, we just want to dig in a bit and ask some questions to make sure.

[GoodNameOnly (Hashtags)]

In my opinion, the only way to fix this issue is to increase the capacity of asian (especially hong kong) server’s capacity, however this is very expensive. hopefully the re-release of Australian servers as promised in RDC 2021 can help mitigate the issue.

If you know what you are doing you may also enable the fast flag “EarlyExitIfHang_DataCenterFilter” to block the portland servers as a temporary fix. – incorrect

Warning About Developers Using Fast Flags

Hello Developers, As you may or may not know, the Roblox engine uses a system called Fast Flags as part of our deployment process. When we ship code, not all of it is active by default. Rather, the changes are suppressed by flags that we can dynamically enable and disable, even after the code is live on production. This allows us to release many features in a timely fashion and allows us to quickly and efficiently diagnose the impact that code changes have. While this is an internal tool, some …

[AnatoIyKarpov (TurboGreaser)]

found a fix yet? this just started recently happening to me. Whenever I use this account, I always get put in US servers. But when I use a different account, I get always put in Singapore servers.

[Beloathed (Gamer)]

(This book tells the player what the server’s region is)

I’m in the United States. I joined my game as the only player. The server’s region was in Japan. Yesterday, it was in Germany. ROBLOX’s matchmaking has been awful as of recently.

[SaifLachmann (Saif)]

Starting to get this issue recently, my default servers are Frankfurt, Germany but somehow I manage to connect to Asian servers specifically Tokyo,Japan at 300+ ms. No VPNs or IP manipulation is utilized and my connection is all done through the green play button through my ISP’s provided IP address.

[Extuls]

Also experiencing getting the wrong servers now. No VPNs or IP manipulation as well and for some reason Roblox decides to sometimes keep giving me servers in Asia when I’m the first person to join. I am in Canada. The servers it gives me are some of the worst latency I can have. It is very frustrating to play games that involve a lot of teleporting (like dungeon crawlers) because I am often not getting servers that are good for me.

[flyFlagship (Peas)]

I have similar issues recently, whilst locating in Asia and with no VPNs or IP manipulations, Roblox will put me into US servers (west coast servers to be exact), some time getting Europe ones as well. However in the past I usually get Tokyo servers or sometimes Singapore. (This also happens when joining VIP servers with 0 players)

Edit: this is sometimes quite annoying when trying to host events through VIP servers while most players are in Asia, Roblox uses US servers and therefore everyone has quite high ping

[MizterZen (lankyboxfan123)]

Playing competitive games like Counterblox (shows where the server is), could be quite annoying when I connected to the wrong server. Every time, I try to join, it always connects to the wrong server even though I am way far from it. Usually around 250ms+.

[MizterZen (lankyboxfan123)]

Seems like Roblox is continuing to disappoint us with bad connection. I have joined several time over and over again. Can’t even join my own server region (Asia)