Our Network

Unlike many other GSP's Multiplay own and operate their own network, to help keep your pings as low as possible and give you the very best online gaming experience. Also unlike other GSP's, our network spans Europe and has been selected by the likes of Activision, EA and THQ for hosting their Official game servers for games like Battlefield 2, Enemy Territory: Quakewars and Call of Duty 4.

For the more technical amongst you, we are members of RIPE and operate the following part of the Internet :)

Autonomous System 35028
85.236.96.0/19

What kit do you use?

As with our servers, we only use top quality equipment for our network. You won't find any names you're likely to see in PCWorld in our racks!

For routing (linking our network to the rest of the Internet) we use Cisco 6500 series routers, with SUP720 management cards.

Inside our network we use super-fast Extreme Networks Summit 200-48 switches. These 48 port purple boxes can switch 13.6Gb of data every second!

Cool! What does it look like?

We've got this shiny network map to show you...

The Multiplay Network, as of November 2008

Better Connectivity

We have 'peering' established with over 250 of Europe's leading ISP's. Peering means we have an established route to your ISP, meaning more control of how your packets reach our servers, and also lower pings. We actively participate at the following exchanges: LINX, AMSIX and NLIX. In the unlikely event we don't peer with your ISP, we take over 7Gbps of 'transit' from the likes of Tier 1 providers Tiscali, Telia and NTT.

Our network also has our own dedicated 1Gpbs link between our London and Amsterdam data centres, allowing us to prioritise gaming traffic bound for Europe, benefitting European gamers, and also our MultiplayDSL customers who wish to play European matches.

Having all these connections means we are able to better control how you connect to our servers. This fliexibility allows us to be proactive in ensuring you recieve the best possible pings.

Questions?

If you've got any questions about any of this, we'll be happy to answer them, just get in touch!