Severe Connection Issues from January 14th onward.

[TiaJ]

Hello!

Currently many UK players are experiencing lag since January 14th. This ranges from mildly irritating delay to "rubber-banding" that makes all but most of the content impossible. The common factor amongst most of those I've seen appears to be our choice of ISP (Sky), however, I've been talking to Sky throughout the day and they cannot identify any problems with their service.

For those of you who are encountering issues, can we please post in this thread to try and keep it relevant until we receive some actual information regarding the matter? For those of you who aren't experiencing this problem, I ask for your support in keeping this thread visible for the same reasons.

I'll be constantly badgering on the forums, twitter and in game until we receive a response regarding this issue.

Thank you for taking the time to read this thread and Im sure I speak for many of those afflicted when I say thank you for your support!

~J'inwa

[TiaJ]

Many users have suggested using PingZapper or WTFast as a way to bypass this problem and reported success. However, I am reluctant to pay for another service to enjoy the game given it shouldn't be needed and actually wasn't until the 14th. It's worth noting that it's an option for people who really can't find another way. I would like some sort of official word that this is being looked into, or at the very least acknowledged. The growing sense of dread that no one knows anything about it doesn't make me feel optimistic regarding a fix.

[Ruenis]

I don't see any other UK player confirm this, do you have any other specific post/thread referencing this issue afflicting UK players?

[Vinroke]

I don't see any other UK player confirm this, do you have any other specific post/thread referencing this issue afflicting UK players?

My monitor is now dripping sarcasm. Thanks for that.

OP: You really should have posted in one of the other three threads currently on the front page.

[Ashira]

I'm a Sky customer from the UK and I've been having the same problem as you since Monday. Today I downloaded WTFast as a temporary get around. It's unfortunate that I have to do this, but it seems to have done the trick. You get a months free trial; hopefully it will have been sorted by time that runs out!

[Xayoc]

Statement: Most of this one's Coil static is in the UK, we killed Twintania on the 15th with little issue.

Conjecture: Perhaps check with your ISP to check your bandwidth usage or ensure that you aren't capping with streaming, BitTorrent, etc.

[Lollerblades]

I had this issue with BT straight after early access ended. It persisted for some weeks.

There is this thread. It may be worth a shot -
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...P2P-throttling

[TiaJ]

Thanks to those that replied thus far. Every other aspect of my connection is working fine. And I have posted in other threads regarding this issue, its the lack of acknowledgement from any party that's the issue. General discussion seems to have more traffic than technical support!

[Lumiin]

Just to add more data incase any mod or something looks at this thread. Tonight the lag was AWFUL everyone in my fc would have these lag spikes and everyone would lag at the exact same time. We're all from different states and we're all on different ISP and even with wtfast up it was still awful.
Been having this issue since the 2.1 update. I'm in the US, Time Warner, and 100megs down. No issues on anything else but FF14. From everyone in my fc (and random people we pug'd with) lagging at the same time, I think it's safe to say it's on SE's part.

[Akira_Tenshi]

Yes, major lag since Tuesday but neither my ISP or Square Enix care enough to do anything about it.