Unplayable Lag

i just made a thread on this and got directed here.. so annoying

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...72#post1790972

thing is.. the people without it just flame you cos wow our community is nice lol

also if you see this please add to my bug report lets get it looked into:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...nce-13-01-2014

In EU it's sometimes 100% unplayable due to this. You can tell the difference like night and day when the server is lagging. When it's on content like Stone vigil is completely impossible to play.

I did get a massive lag spike in Titan EM when he was doing bombs+landslide, lagged out after I dodged the bombs and landslide hit me :(.

I don't get lag spikes all the time though, after that Titan I did a Garuda EM and I didn't get any lag spikes (although I think some of the party members were getting some). I wonder what happened, maybe the servers need emergency maintenance?

I suspect the instance server's are to full of people and people are getting qued. E.g. you need to send/receive something but it has you waiting in a que and can't process you right away. About the only thing I can think of to explain why some people lag and some people don't.

I imagine SE designed some sort of connection que. It maintains a list of players connected and puts a pile of them (stack based) in the message pump and any one that doesn't fit sits idle waiting for a turn. People in the message pump see you still sitting in the center even though you moved because you haven't been processed yet. You get smacked with aoe's etc that you aren't visually in on your screen because the instance server still thinks you are where you were the last time you were processed.

If this is the case, SE needs to batch groups together, so your 8 man is always being processed together.

This isn't just happening in instances, it's happening in the open world. Everyone stops still like they're playing musical chairs, then they start moving again 5-10 seconds later at super fast speed.

Just confirming that I have had the same issue from Tuesday as well.

Like most on the thread I am from UK (Scotland) and have Sky as my ISP.

NI/UK with Sky been getting massive lag spikes over the last few days. I already had a VPN before signing up to ARR and most times lag/latency has been negligible. A FC member suggested trying googledns and it helps somewhat.. for about 30 minutes until my connection to the server goes haywire again. While I don't think it's 100% SE's fault, neither do I think it's Sky's fault - I am not experiencing throttling on any other online game or streaming service. Admittedly that may just be confirmation bias on my part, though.

I know that a lot of UK ISPs throttle P2P traffic nowadays, could that be anything to do with the problem we are having?

I've resorted to Pingzapper just now. Which seems to cut the lag although I get the occasional spike and DC but it's better than nothing I guess

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Originally Posted by Ashira

This isn't just happening in instances, it's happening in the open world. Everyone stops still like they're playing musical chairs, then they start moving again 5-10 seconds later at super fast speed.

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Yes, and it happens only in the afternoon/evenings when the server is more populated. Ever since 2.1 I've been experiencing this.

EDIT: The only other time I experienced this was when they "fixed" the instance servers so there wasn't a 2 hour queue time for AK.