Bad lag again with NTT's NA server network

Might as well throw my report in here as well. I've submitted an actual ping/packet loss report to SE. I play on Balmung Crystal from the UK. Have done for the past couple of years and this is the first time I've encountered any amount of unplayable levels of ping. My average is usually between 150-160, however my ping to Crystal, Aether and Dynamis all have the same 450+ ping being experienced from pings to their server IP, and in game on Crystal where I play. However, for me my ping to Primal is showing the expected 150-160 average. Comparing the trace routes, the hop where the ping skyrockets for the 3 servers vs Primal... Is the same IP and address name. The only difference between the trace routes is the final server IP. All the rest is the same route which doesn't make sense to me why Primal is not also experiencing the lag issue, and vice versa. This is extremely annoying as this is now continuing into the 10 year ANV event, and the game is fundamentally unplayable (being unable to even single weave comfortably, and don't get me started on mudras). This has been constant for the past few days now.

Playing on Crystal from Belgium, usually ping is around 180-200 ms, obviously not ideal but manageable, past couple of days it has been mostly around 450-500 ms. Thursday raid was a mess.

This makes it very hard to do anything at a decent level, e.g. pressing Swiftcast then Revive often has me hardcasting Revive and the Swiftcast buff being applied later.

Using Mudfish takes me down to 160-180 ms, which helps in this trying time. Though I should not need to.

In the UK and having same issues on BT connecting to US servers. Also tracert'd it to NTT. I've contacted SE customer support but I don't realistically know what the chances are of this being fixed, but the game is basically unplayable for me as it is.

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Originally Posted by Avark

This is the shorten form link you should be able to submit the report to https://sqex.to/vzc
Taken from lodestone page which contains instructions on what to do to submit the information

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I encourage everyone to follow this and bombard SE with this on that link so it gets their attention faster.

This 10 year anniversary event is so realistic! They've even managed to replicate internet connection issues from launch!

(Origional issue was ISP traffic management, this isn't lol)

well this morning it seemd it was fixed but now the Ping when up again, making it hard to do any content.

This should be fixed quickly from either party.

yeah pretty sure for once this isn't an ISP issue OR a userside connection issue.

its a general EU players on NA issue.

out of our hands until it either fixes itself or square finds a fix.

times like these is why im glad i made an EU character lol

I wouldn't be suggesting people buy VPN subscriptions and shit, this rodeo has happened before always ends up fixing itself.

I'd rather it be fixed while this event is still active than wait for it to fix itself because who knows how long that'd take. Also, since this is a EU players on NA issue, I wonder if it they will see it as a priority to fix when they could simply tell us to play on EU instead (which would be awful!).

I was hoping I would be able to earn Mog Tomes via the Lv.81+ dungeons through the use of Trusts but nope, got do it with players and I ain't going to do that with this much delay. :(

Also, I see VPN is being spouted as a solution. Fine if you want to use it but I don't want to pay for something that wasn't necessary before this issue happened.

If cross region data centre travel happens it would be a godsend for times like these, could just pop your character over to EU for a couple of weeks.

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Originally Posted by WillIrishclover

If cross region data centre travel happens it would be a godsend for times like these, could just pop your character over to EU for a couple of weeks.

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And we know they could do it anytime, they just fear the backlash on different Regional behavior, aka jp People playing with NA/EU, but i think most NA and EU wann aplay together anyways and avoid JP Servers usually. the Biggest winners in this will be OCE anyways.