Request for information: ISPs and P2P throttling

Verizon Fios
USA (East coast)
All the time

Think I've already posted once, but there seems to have been little improvement.
-ISP is BT Infinity
-Country is UK
- When it hits 7pm the lag becomes too extreme to actually be able to do anything. As I work normal(ish) job hours, the only time I really get to play is after 7. So I essentially can't play. The lag is making the game completely unplayable. I've lost count of how many timed leves I've failed due to this. It's also not fun to watch yourself get killed and fail a leve even though you spam your heal skill.

any updates would be appreciated. 1 week not being to play now....

- Telenor
- Trondheim, Norway
- Lag both in dungeons and outside of dungeons, mostly during the evening.

- Name of ISP - BT
- Country of Residence - UK
- When does the problem occur (always, only during specific times?) Every night around 6-7pm. Game is unplayable.

The worst of this its that SE is doing nothing and saying nothing. They could say something to us but ....
i was playing since 24 august with lag because I thought "no problem, they will fix this for sure" but 09/08/13 and still with this annoying lag.
I'm not playing because is just unplayable to fight, dungeons, bosses, etc and I wont play till they fix this or maybe I wont play anymore....we'll see

Been playing fine today but now the lag has made the game unplayable.

ISP: BT
Country: UK
Server: Phoenix
Time: 21:30
Character: Taelsin Nom

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Originally Posted by Melodius

have you registered your actual product key to your account. You got 7 days after release of free play, THEN 30 more days free, only if you registered the game product key to your account. This could be the promotion code they speak of.
The first 7 days was to allow people who pre orders PHYSICAL copy's time to get them, as there could be a delay between them leaving the factory, getting to the store, and getting to them.
Check the "check my order page", will ask you for last x numbers of ur credit card and it will give you your pre order key, and game cd key. Enter them at Mog station website.

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Thanks for responding, I have actually registered the code with my playstation and the mog station confirms that I am all good to go. The weirdest part is that it says that, then goes to the launcher eventually and I am able to log back in no problem. After about an hour or so of logging in and getting disconnected this morning I was eventually able to get in and stay in for over an hour! It all just seems so random. Hopefully they can do something to fix it for everyone soon! Thanks again. :)

- Saudi Telecom Company (STC).
- Saudi Arabia.
- Several times a day. During dungeons people see me jumping.

ISP-Videotron
Country-Canada
Time of occurrence - constant

Still a huge problem, the issue regarding locking up on npcs etc seems to have subsided still gettingbad rubberbanding issues, sending is nearly always at 0 and receiving between 200 and 3000

ISP: Time Warner Cable Earthlink

Country: United States, New York, NY

All day long and more problematic during peak hours. Everything was fine before that big maintenance.

ISP: Comcast
Country: United States, Kirkland, WA
Constantly encountering lag while trying to play.

ISP: Comcast
Country: Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Occurrence: Always. Started at beginning of Beta p4

ISP: Telmex
Country: Mexico
Occurrence: Always.

ISP: Verizon Fios
Location: North VA USA
Intermittent spikes in world, consistent 3-7 sec spikes in duties making them unplayable. Time of day does not matter.

ISP: Comcast
Country: USA (California)
Occurrence: Always

ISP: Verizon Fios
Location: Washington, DC USA
Occurrence: Always

still having problems with this, Recieving keeps dropping to 0 and everything rubberbands. Im starting to believe it is server side and not our ISPs....

ISP: Verizon Fios
Location: North Virginia USA
Occurrence: On and off but often, The issues only started up after last week's server updates. I had no lag whatsoever in beta 4, early access, or week 1 of release.

ISP: Jackson Energy Authority
Location: Jackson, Tennessee US
Happens intermittently no particular one time period. Started after last weeks update.

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Originally Posted by Zealboy

ISP: Verizon Fios
Location: North Virginia USA
Occurrence: On and off but often, The issues only started up after last week's server updates. I had no lag whatsoever in beta 4, early access, or week 1 of release.

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This seems to be a running theme. Seeing so many people located in VA with Verizon as their service provider posting in this thread and others complaining of the exact same issues. Myself included.

ISP: Verizon Fios
Location: Northern Virginia USA
Occurrence: On and off but most of the time. Connection also drops and reconnects 6 to 7 times a day

- Verizon FIOS
- USA, Northern Virginia
- From early afternoon until at least 5 AM EDT
- Ticket number: VADQ0CZQSJ

Issue manifests lag for 1-5 seconds every 5-15 seconds. During the lag, all players and monsters stand still but I am able to move around and continue trying to cast spells or interact with objects. This is especially noticeable in dungeons.

EDIT: This issue only started occurring since last update.

SE:
Is there anywhere you have a list of ISPs this issue has been resolved with?

I've been playing the game through a VPN for about a week now to circumvent the slideshow.

RCN Chicago

-Orange
-Poland
-afternoon till like 10-11 pm GMT+2

- Bluewin
- Switzerland
- Always

Brighthouse Networks
Florida
Always (It's gotten worse now!), been happening since update.

ISP: Comcast
Name: Ghaledunai Akeral
Country: USA (CA)
Occurance: Pretty much every 30 mins to an hour or less when playing at any point during the day, suddenly the game will slow down and lag, then be stuck for a few mins, continue as normal, then start again 30 mins later, didn't start happening until after the Sept 4th Patch

ISP: Charter
Name: Kuranes'sae Dremr
Country: USA (Madison, WI)

Occurance: particularly in any city, fate, or dungeon. Game stutters and lags badly for a minute or two, game will proceed (sluggier and slower than previously) and will probably stutter and lag badly when rejoining populated areas or when FATE mobs spawn.

Was working perfectly before the update last week. Every phase of beta had nowhere near this kind of lag spike...it's very noticeable.

ISP: Verizon FIOS
Location: Northern VA, USA
Occurrence: Intermittent. Didn't have any of these issues until after the update on 9/4.

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Originally Posted by Sisco

i'm not lagging today was there a fix?
RCN-NYC

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I have RCN in Lehigh Valley PA and my problems stopped on Saturday as well. Was on for about 10 hours on Sunday with no kick outs.

ISP: Time Warner Cable (Upstate NY)
Name: Randolf Carter
Server: Excalibur
Country: USA (Albany, NY)
Occurrence: Can occur anytime. Lag spikes are more frequent on weekends and evenings than during daytime during the week. Exceptionally bad on sunday 9/8 and sat-sun 9/24-25. Lag spikes occur anywhere from a fraction of a second to 25 seconds during an Ifrit(Hard) battle. Sometimes enemies do not appear and are not target-able for long periods of time, for example: Garuda(Hard), Behemoth.
Had a time warner tech visit with confirm # 101046292 and found no issues.
Note: My wife and I are both playing from this connection. We do NOT lag at the same time. It appears to be a server congestion issue.
Note 2: On one day, I believe 9/6, myself, my wife, and a friend on the same ISP several miles away all received error 90000 and were disconnected, while LS mates remained connected to the server.

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Originally Posted by june23

- Name of ISP : TIME WARNER
- Country of Residence: USA
- When does the problem occur (always, only during specific times?): ALWAYS for FFIV
- Reference number from your ISP, if you raised this matter with them: n/a

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This issue went away for 3 days after the major patch. It then came back. Unplayable. Connection is still unstable at all time of the day. Now I am getting more 90000 error than before.

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- Name of ISP: Xfinity/Comcast

- Country of Residence: United States

- When does the problem occur?: Seemingly random times. Very sporadic. Occurs constantly throughout the time I'm playing. There's long pauses during combat, when speaking to NPCs, performing actions, mounting & dismounting my Company Chocobo, list goes on. I haven't noticed anything specific that causes these pauses. I thought that the number of mobs in an area was partly the culprit, but there are times that, even in incredibly crowded areas, things still run smoothly. On the other hand, during instanced quests, where there are typically very few mobs/objects in the area, the problem arises.

This is an issue I practically never saw in Beta Phase 3, only occasionally saw in Beta Phase 4, and now see all the time during release.

Also, I'm playing on PS3 (have been since Beta Phase 3), if that matters any.

ISP: Time Warner Cable (Upstate NY)
Server: Adamantoise
Country: USA (Albany, NY)
Occurrence: Dungeons specifically, when running around the world people will stop in place then jet forward. I dont get disconnected usually, but I'll go from 500 sending to 0 constantly in both of the aforementioned cases.

- ISP: Sky (20Mbps)

- Country of Residence: England, United Kingdom

- When does the problem occur?: Random times.

Occurs constantly throughout the time I'm playing. There's long pauses during combat, when speaking to NPCs, performing actions, mounting & dismounting my. Also happens, during instanced quests, where there are typically very few mobs/objects in the area, the problem arises.

This is an issue I never had in Beta Phase 3, but constantly got it in Phase 4 and launch being Error 90000'd every 2 minutes, lag spikes once every minute or so and predicting mobs next 10 moves leveling 2 jobs to 15 and one to 45.

EDIT: I am on PS3 if that makes a difference?

- Time Warner
- California, USA
- Intermittent

- Ziggo
- The Netherlands
- Huge unplayable lag with DC (after update last week)

What's being done about this, it's effecting a large percent of all western players!