Request for information: ISPs and P2P throttling

- Shaw Cablesystems
- BC, Canada
- Always occurring
- No ref#, but confirmed no neighbourhood saturation.

Always have a receiving latency of at least 2000, today it spiked to 12,000 when I tried to walk forwards.

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Originally Posted by mayonnegg

Is there some way to test to see if that's the case? And why do some get routed via TATA but not others?

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By using traces, the people being routed through certain nodes owned by TATA seem to have the problem, look at previous posts in this topic.

This one is very detailed, and explains the problem quite well though. http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post1302642

- AT&T
- Southern California
- Randomly Occurring
- The throttling has really taken a toll on my data.

- BT
- Scotland, United Kingdom
- Titan, Garuda, AK, randomly elsewhere
- 2000 spiking around 8000-12000 with 5sec delay freeze.... sometimes

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Originally Posted by Roseyrosho

By using traces, the people being routed through certain nodes owned by TATA seem to have the problem, look at previous posts in this topic.

This one is very detailed, and explains the problem quite well though. http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post1302642

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Thanks, I don't particularly udnerstand everything there though so I don't get why some people's traffic goes via this but not others'. The answer might confuse me though.

Is there anything that can be done? Like Peerblocking or something?

-Timewarner
-El Paso, Texas
-last week was much better but still laggy, this week terrible
-Getting out of aoe is impossible...

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Originally Posted by Roseyrosho

By using traces, the people being routed through certain nodes owned by TATA seem to have the problem, look at previous posts in this topic.

This one is very detailed, and explains the problem quite well though. http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post1302642

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That's interesting. I play in two locations. One routes through tata and has lag generally around 2pm eastern. The other routes through cogent and while I don't generally play at the same time there it never lags.

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Originally Posted by mayonnegg

Thanks, I don't particularly udnerstand everything there though so I don't get why some people's traffic goes via this but not others'. The answer might confuse me though.

Is there anything that can be done? Like Peerblocking or something?

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Depending on your physical location, and ISP, you'll have a different route to a host. Sometimes that route can even change throughout the day if the backend routing tables update for some reason.

I'm on TWC in socal and my normal route goes though a TATA palo alto hop where the problem is. I use a VPN service that routes me to the east coast first, and it bypasses TAT completely...so no more lag for me

-Comcast
-Oregon, USA
-Started 3 days ago (unable to play)

Lobby server error 2002

can not click 'start'

-Time Warner
-El Paso, TX, USA
-I've had problems since early access. Spells are slow, moving out of aoe is impossible.
-Ran several speed test, connection is great. Every other online game is flawless.