North American Data Center Lag

Welp, day 2 and it's still going like everyone else it seems.

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 8 ms 8 ms 10 ms 96.120.118.9
3 9 ms 8 ms 8 ms ae-252-1216-rur02.egypt.tx.houston.comcast.net [96.110.196.121]
4 9 ms 9 ms 8 ms ae-2-rur01.egypt.tx.houston.comcast.net [162.151.135.117]
5 9 ms 18 ms 18 ms ae-41-ar01.bearcreek.tx.houston.comcast.net [68.85.244.97]
6 19 ms 16 ms 15 ms be-33662-cr02.dallas.tx.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.92.61]
7 15 ms 15 ms 14 ms be-12495-pe03.1950stemmons.tx.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.85.194]
8 14 ms 14 ms 21 ms ae-19.a01.dllstx09.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.66.29]
9 115 ms 100 ms 101 ms ae-3.r11.dllstx09.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.3.31]
10 18 ms 31 ms 18 ms ae-1.r23.dllstx09.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.5.25]
11 142 ms 136 ms 135 ms ae-8.r23.snjsca04.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.4.154]
12 125 ms 137 ms 132 ms ae-45.r01.snjsca04.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.3.175]
13 151 ms 166 ms 168 ms ae-4.r00.scrmca02.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.7.57]
14 118 ms 114 ms 118 ms xe-0-1-0-1-1.r00.scrmca02.us.ce.gin.ntt.net [192.80.16.2]
15 155 ms 161 ms 173 ms 204.2.229.234
16 110 ms 111 ms 119 ms 204.2.229.105

Same thing as others,as soon as it leave the isp, the ping sky rockets.

I'm also noticing issues with the forum loading. It's slow to load and sometimes only half loads.

The slightly higher ping times I could deal with, it's the packet loss that's a deal breaker. I'm hopeful that if we make enough noise about this SE will do something.

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 10 ms 8 ms 10 ms 96.120.102.209
3 10 ms 10 ms 9 ms po-109-rur102.everett.wa.seattle.comcast.net [96.108.165.173]
4 15 ms 10 ms 10 ms be-29-ar01.seattle.wa.seattle.comcast.net [69.139.164.217]
5 12 ms 14 ms 12 ms be-33650-cr01.seattle.wa.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.93.165]
6 13 ms 11 ms 11 ms be-10847-pe02.seattle.wa.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.86.226]
7 127 ms * 132 ms ae-31.a00.sttlwa01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.66.149]
8 157 ms 152 ms 160 ms ae-14.r05.sttlwa01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.5.133]
9 123 ms * 131 ms ae-6.r23.sttlwa01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.2.88]
10 145 ms 147 ms * ae-3.r23.snjsca04.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.3.124]
11 151 ms 149 ms 153 ms ae-45.r01.snjsca04.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.3.175]
12 150 ms 149 ms * ae-4.r00.scrmca02.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.7.57]
13 * 149 ms 150 ms xe-0-1-0-1-1.r00.scrmca02.us.ce.gin.ntt.net [192.80.16.2]
14 151 ms 162 ms * 204.2.229.234
15 147 ms * * 204.2.229.105
16 153 ms 150 ms 152 ms 204.2.229.105

Just adding my two cents. Average latency I play with is 78-80. Last few nights it has been 200+, not including spikes, and makes the game essentially unplayable for someone not accustomed to such latency. Crafting is dangerous for the obvious reasons and doing something as simple as Copied Factory is quite troublesome. I'm not sure what SE could do or who they could lean on to fix this problem, but it is going to impact the player base in the long run if things aren't adjusted in a reasonable time.

Doing my duty and adding my voice, many in our raid team had lag issues tonight, and the forums are also taking a very long time to load. Please fix this.

Adding to it, several FC mates on Zalera having same issues, some are still playable, some hitting lag so back they are 30s + behind the fight.

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Originally Posted by Sakon90

Adding to it, several FC mates on Zalera having same issues, some are still playable, some hitting lag so back they are 30s + behind the fight.

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This happened to me when the lag started spiking during an S rank hunt. The hunt target was still had over 25% HP when the people in chat said that it was already dead. Took literally 30+ seconds for my side to catch up. Completely unplayable.

Sounding off, my group had some rough issues with lag last night. I don't think the NTT node is anything Square can do anything about though :/

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Originally Posted by SaberMaxwell

Sounding off, my group had some rough issues with lag last night. I don't think the NTT node is anything Square can do anything about though :/

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This isn't something SE can do anything about. It's the route your data takes, nothing SE can do about that. A VPN should solve your issues, and they aren't expensive. I used one for a couple of years a while back before we got our EU servers.

I do appreciate it's horribly frustrating but please stop blaming SE. There are plenty of things they do need to sort out, this is not one of them. They can't do anything about this

I was able to run expert rou this morning 7 AM EST without any issues. Not sure if it's due to the issue being resolved or the lack of people online, but I can say for the time I ran the dungeon I didn't have any problems.

Here's hoping it's fixed otherwise it's just going to be related to that many people being online at the same time.