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Connection problems at south america(Brazil)
arthur_silva4909
Member Posts: 2 ✭
I'm from Brazil, and the closest server from me is us-west-2 at Oregon that means it is over 10.700Km as I live in the south of Brazil.
"Japan is 10,700 km from my house(USA). If I had a direct fiber from me to Japan, the time for a photon to go from one point to the other is 52.47ms. Add the return trip, and your over 100ms already. It's also one of the reasons GEO sats have pings of 600ms+" -ulmatms at a reddit post
If I open my "cmd" and type "ping onshape.com" it gives me:
As I show above, It's a REALLY HIGH PING, you could be thinking, but does it matter when you are working? If your file isn't too big, like a square, No it doesn't matter that much, but if your file it's a FRC robot (like mine) YES it does really matter! Sometimes It takes 30+ secs to add a DOT in a sketch…
I'm not making this topic to say Onshape is the worse, NO, I do really like Onshape, it's really easy to learn how to use, and is not expensive at all, but it would be really helpful to have a server at south America, and I know that I'm not the only one, of course US has way more people using Onshape than Brazil or maybe south America, but is not 0, and maybe there is not that many, because people tell other "don't even try it, you have to wait 3 business days, to open a skecth"
Ps: I saw a topic about local servers, I think it would work! like I'm in a robotics team, we could make a server and use it but…
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