Bad lag again with NTT's NA server network

What sorcery is this? It's 7pm eastern (personally I suspect it's because people are on the road for the holiday right now and it will be bad this weekend when lots more are on)

6 10 ms 13 ms 8 ms cgcil402igs.ip.att.net [12.122.133.161]
7 14 ms 10 ms 8 ms 192.205.32.194
8 8 ms 8 ms 8 ms ae-4.r23.chcgil09.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.4.239]
9 * * * Request timed out.
10 68 ms 60 ms * ae-4.a00.scrmca03.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.7.57]
11 59 ms 58 ms 58 ms xe-0-0-5-0.a00.scrmca03.us.ce.gin.ntt.net [128.241.2.18]
12 58 ms 58 ms * 204.2.29.241
13 58 ms 58 ms 57 ms 204.2.29.6

I've been using PIA VPN. Silicon Valley and Michigan/Chicago seem to work okay but they still hit that 129.250.7.57 IP. And last night I was on Michigan and I was getting severe input delay in Euphrosyne.

So I played around with some and found that Honolulu does not hit that IP. No more input delay or lag once I swapped to that one.

I know not everyone was hitting that IP but that's seemed to be my pain point and eliminating that with a VPN choice is what's working for me.

And again, we shouldn't have to use a VPN just to play this game.

My ping is normal at the moment, too. Time will tell if it stays this way, though.

Log in to do island real quick only to notice the lack of lags. Have our prayers been answered?

Around 14:30 Monterey CA time:
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...9b18b76f_c.jpg

I spoke too soon. It's having hiccups but not constant like it was. Maybe they're working on it?

Quote:

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3 4 ms 3 ms 3 ms 71.155.29.140
4 * * * Request timed out.
5 6 ms 7 ms 7 ms 32.130.25.65
6 9 ms 8 ms 7 ms ae-5.a00.dllstx14.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.8.237]
7 5 ms 7 ms 8 ms ae-2.r21.dllstx14.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.4.19]
8 48 ms 48 ms 47 ms ae-2.r25.snjsca04.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.4.154]
9 * * * Request timed out.
10 49 ms 51 ms 52 ms ae-4.a00.scrmca03.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.7.57]
11 52 ms 51 ms 51 ms xe-0-0-5-0.a00.scrmca03.us.ce.gin.ntt.net [128.241.2.18]
12 * * * Request timed out.
13 51 ms 51 ms 51 ms 204.2.29.6

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Here's mine from 6:40pm CST. Let us see...

Game definitely feels a lot smoother for me. Did some dailies for about an hour and didn't notice any rubberbanding. I'm holding out hope that whatever they did will hold up!

Just did JP (Anima/Mana) dungeon run, still lagging badly.

It's definitely better. I've been grinding CC for an hour and only one match has started lagging.

Pls let this finally be over lol.

Interesting, mine's improved a bit too:

Code:

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  5    *        *        *    Request timed out.
  6    13 ms    15 ms    15 ms  32.130.17.75
  7    21 ms    15 ms    14 ms  cgcil402igs.ip.att.net [12.122.133.161]
  8    21 ms    13 ms    13 ms  192.205.32.194
  9    13 ms    16 ms    28 ms  ae-4.r23.chcgil09.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.4.239]
 10    60 ms    60 ms    60 ms  ae-1.r24.snjsca04.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.5.17]
 11    63 ms    63 ms    64 ms  ae-4.a00.scrmca03.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.7.57]
 12    64 ms    63 ms    64 ms  xe-0-0-5-0.a00.scrmca03.us.ce.gin.ntt.net [128.241.2.18]
 13    *        *      63 ms  204.2.29.241
 14    63 ms    62 ms    62 ms  204.2.29.6

Trace complete.

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I'm also getting "Connection: Excellent" on the character select screen instead of "Connection: Poor" like the last week and change.

I'm cautiously optimistic considering it's primetime right now and things seem ok, but we'll have to see how things hold up over the weekend.