North America Central game servers and ping test

North America Central at a glance

Cities the publishers give: Chicago, Dallas, Atlanta
Data center countries: United States
Test point: Ohio
Games that name it: 11 of 28, 6 by its own name or city
From our server in Germany: 105 ms, Playable (data center, median run)
Region record checked: October 15, 2026

Games that name North America Central

6 games name North America Central by their own label or city. 5 more games list a wider area that spans it, such as North America (US) (our name). Such an area never lends this region's city.

Games whose server lists name North America Central, with the label and city each publisher gives
Game	Name in the game	City	How our test reads it
EA SPORTS FC 26	Not published	Dallas	This region, by its own name or city
EA SPORTS FC 26	Not published	Des Moines	This region, by its own name or city
Garena Free Fire	Not published	Not published	Part of North America (US) (our name), read as the best of North America East, North America Central and North America West
Garena Free Fire	Not published	Not published	Part of North America (our name), read as the best of North America East, North America Central and North America West
Genshin Impact	America	Not published	Part of America, read as the best of North America East, North America Central and North America West
League of Legends	Not published	Not published	Part of North America (our name), read as the best of North America East, North America Central and North America West
Marvel Rivals	Not published	Dallas	This region, by its own name or city
Minecraft: Bedrock Edition	Not published	Not published	This region, by the country Mojang Studios gives
Minecraft: Bedrock Edition	Not published	Not published	This region, by the country Mojang Studios gives
NARAKA: BLADEPOINT	NA	Not published	Part of NA, read as the best of North America East, North America Central and North America West
PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS	NA	Not published	Part of NA, read as the best of North America East, North America Central and North America West
Rainbow Six Siege	United States Central	Not published	This region, by its own name or city
Rainbow Six Siege	United States South Central	Not published	United States South Central, read on this region's test point, city not published
Rocket League	US-Central	Not published	This region, by its own name or city
VALORANT	US Central (Texas)	Not published	This region, by its own name or city
VALORANT	US Central (Illinois)	Not published	This region, by its own name or city
VALORANT	US Central (Georgia)	Not published	This region, by its own name or city

Cities the publishers give for North America Central

4 cities in all. 2 of them appear in at least one game's own server list; the rest come from the region's sources below.

Cities for North America Central and the games whose lists name each one
City	Named in these game lists
Dallas	EA SPORTS FC 26 and Marvel Rivals
Des Moines	EA SPORTS FC 26
Atlanta	None on this site; named in the region sources
Chicago	None on this site; named in the region sources

The North America Central test point

Ohio: Amazon Web Services region US East (Ohio). The test sends small HTTPS requests to dynamodb.us-east-2.amazonaws.com and times each answer.

Ohio stands in for Chicago, Dallas and Atlanta, so a figure here is a close guide to those cities, not their own.

Terms: Amazon's Acceptable Use Policy, read October 15, 2026. How the test uses every test point is on the method page, and the full list is on the data page.

North America Central from our server in Germany

Our own server in a German data center timed this test point every 30 minutes from October 15, 2026 to October 18, 2026, 91 runs with command line requests. The median run read 105 ms to Ohio: Playable on our bands. That is one data center line in Germany, not a home line, and your verdict never uses it. Another network in the same country can read a region tens of milliseconds faster or slower.

Reference times to North America Central from a data center in Germany, October 15, 2026 to October 18, 2026
Test point	Median run	Middle half of runs	Slowest run	Typical spread	Runs
Ohio	105 ms	104 ms to 106 ms	116 ms	0.3 ms	91

North America Central from your own line

The figures above are from a data center. Run the test with North America Central picked as the region you play on, and the result reads your line to it next to every other region.

Test your ping to North America Central

North America Central questions

Which games have servers in North America Central?

EA SPORTS FC 26, Marvel Rivals, Minecraft: Bedrock Edition, Rainbow Six Siege, Rocket League and VALORANT name North America Central in their own server lists. Garena Free Fire, Genshin Impact, League of Legends, NARAKA: BLADEPOINT and PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS list an area that includes it, without a city.

Where is the North America Central test point?

In the Amazon Web Services region US East (Ohio). Ohio stands in for Chicago, Dallas and Atlanta. It is not a game server: the test times it because it sits near the servers the publishers name.

What does our server in Germany read to North America Central?

From our server in a German data center, the median of 91 runs to Ohio was 105 ms, Playable on our bands, with half the runs between 104 ms and 106 ms. That is one data center line: another network can read North America Central tens of milliseconds faster or slower, and a home line adds its own delay, so run the test for your figure.

Sources

GetSDRConfig, Steam Datagram Relay network configuration for app 730 (Counter-Strike 2), Valve Steam Web API, official page, read October 15, 2026
Server Select - VALORANT Support, support article, read October 15, 2026
Amazon DynamoDB endpoints and quotas, AWS General Reference, provider documentation, read October 15, 2026
AWS Acceptable Use Policy (last updated July 1, 2021), provider terms, read October 15, 2026
Reference times: our own stability probe on a server in a German data center, October 15, 2026 to October 18, 2026