Screw it, im done. This lag is no longer acceptable.

i'm on adamantoise and i have been having this problem since server "upgrades" "maintenance"
I'ts always when i connect in the afternoon.

and sometimes from 8-11 pm pdt

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...%28Petition%29

Until today I had no lag, while many did. After the work on the last night, lag spike/rubber banding up to 10 seconds.

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Originally Posted by ntall1

Let me better explain what I mean by strobe light. Players will be moving then everything stops.. Just stops. Then everything super speeds up to catch up with what really happened. Sometimes the pause is a second, some times its 10 seconds. If it was a FPS issue this would happen 24 hours a day. But it doesn't. It happens between the same time frame every single day, and clears up towards the evening. Pretty sure the problem isn't my video card only working half of the day each day.

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This is my problem in a nut shell. I do not know what the issue is (even if I have uneducated ideas). At first I figured it was overloaded servers, which is something I have seen in many games. I usually wait those issues out and they resolve. The problem here has gotten worse unfortunately, and was so bad last night two dungeon runs were almost impossible (we're talking 6 to 8 second pauses before everything catches up).

I do find issues with packet losses to their server within Montreal, which I don't get anywhere else. No clue why or how, it just is.

Hey, I believe you know how to build your own PC, if you've been doing it for 15 years, I have no reason to doubt you as it would've been hard NOT to want a build a beast yourself, I have 11 years myself, and I still have to put up with the argument that someone will always say I dont know what I'm doing, but whatever to the haters, they're mad because we don't have to pay someone to make something awesome. :)

Now onto your situation. You're issue where everything slows down and then speeds up to catch up is most definitely a connectivity issue but I have to ask you if you've checked the following:

1. Did you check your router's firmware for updates? The network connectivity could be user-end if the hardware is outdated, or not updated properly.
2. Did you check with your ISP to see if they have you locked under P2P Throttling as a lot of ISP's are making this mistake with FFXIV
3. Have you created open (non-restrictive) ports for FFXIV or the hardware it runs on?
4. Have you opened up ports (non-restrictive) on your Firewall for FFXIV if your PC or even Router runs one?

This might sound like a long-shot but try disconnecting your PC from the router and remove the router from the configuration completely. Go straight from your PC to your Cable Modem (or FIOS if you're rich lol) and see if you still have the connectivity issues as another piece of hardware on your network setup may be retrieving and sending data at intervals causing the fluctuation of L.E.'s (or what I've dubbed "Lag Events").

10 seconds lag, started yesterday, please fix. _ _

people who don't have the issue generally are the ones who suggest configurations changes on the user end. 99% of these issues from who i've talked to in game have solid setups and no issues on their end and its a packet routing/loss issue bottleneck right around the montreal data center. It was camoflouged as ISP throttling but it really is on SE's end (or their medium in montreal where they get the traffic). I just upgraded my office backbone switch and although our ISP speed never changed everything is now lightning fast since we swapped out the old cat5 cabling to a full gigabit setup with cat6 cabling to our servers+pc's.

^yes, there is no way in Hell that it's anything other than SE's problem. No matter how you slice it, ppl won't sub if they can't play.

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Originally Posted by xSinful_Snake

Hey, I believe you know how to build your own PC, if you've been doing it for 15 years, I have no reason to doubt you as it would've been hard NOT to want a build a beast yourself, I have 11 years myself, and I still have to put up with the argument that someone will always say I dont know what I'm doing, but whatever to the haters, they're mad because we don't have to pay someone to make something awesome. :)

Now onto your situation. You're issue where everything slows down and then speeds up to catch up is most definitely a connectivity issue but I have to ask you if you've checked the following:

1. Did you check your router's firmware for updates? The network connectivity could be user-end if the hardware is outdated, or not updated properly.
2. Did you check with your ISP to see if they have you locked under P2P Throttling as a lot of ISP's are making this mistake with FFXIV
3. Have you created open (non-restrictive) ports for FFXIV or the hardware it runs on?
4. Have you opened up ports (non-restrictive) on your Firewall for FFXIV if your PC or even Router runs one?

This might sound like a long-shot but try disconnecting your PC from the router and remove the router from the configuration completely. Go straight from your PC to your Cable Modem (or FIOS if you're rich lol) and see if you still have the connectivity issues as another piece of hardware on your network setup may be retrieving and sending data at intervals causing the fluctuation of L.E.'s (or what I've dubbed "Lag Events").

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Yes........

Tons of ppl are having this exact issue, and tons of ppl have gone thru these very basic steps. Im sure I have already said in previos posts that the basics have already been completed before coming to the forums to complain about it.

Its not something on my end, its has nothing to do with my ISP, and it has nothing to do with my home network. Even if I knew nothing about computers and networking it would be more than obvious that it is FF14 related when I can play any other online game without issue. Why can i play PoE, an ARPG without even a single ms of lag. I can even go play Minecraft on crappy private servers hosted on local networks in kids basements and not lag.

Wanna tell me now its my ISP throttling what they believe to be a P2P program?? Well than explain to me how I can still download torrents at the maximum of my download speed. There are tons of ways to test connections to a service even if you know nothing about networking.

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Originally Posted by Splice

people who don't have the issue generally are the ones who

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Have not had their connections mysteriously rerouted through terrible nodes after the Oct 1rst maintenance.