Downdetector.com Companies List
(basically the US region...scroll to the bottom for links to other countries/regions)
AT&T outage map
Recent reports mainly originated from: Houston, Austin, Nashville, Chicago, Beardstown, Smithville, Los Angeles, Miami, Charlotte, and San Jose.
reported problems: Landline > Internet (32%)
Call of Duty outage map
reported problems:Server connection (66%), Log-in (29%), Website (3%)
CenturyLink outage map
Recent reports mainly originated from: Minneapolis, Denver, Tempe, Miami, Winter Park, Phoenix, Apopka, Des Moines, Kissimmee, and Eugene.
reported problems: Internet (84%), Phone (11%), Total blackout (5%)
Charter outage map
Recent reports mostly originate from: Lawrenceburg, St. Louis, La Puente, Pulaski, Los Angeles, Chicago, Lawrenceville, Detroit, Long Beach, and Cullman.
reported problems: Internet (70%), Total Blackout (15%), TV (14%)
Comcast outage map
Recent reports mostly originate from: Houston, Chicago, San Jose, Sacramento, Miami, Denver, San Francisco, Richmond, Oakland, and Philadelphia.
reported problems: Internet (63%), Total Blackout (18%), TV (17%)
Netflix outage map
reported problems: Video streaming (45%), No connection (40%), Log-in (14%)
Time Warner Cable outage map
Recent reports mostly originate from: Los Angeles, Houston, New York, Bronx, Dallas, Austin, Brooklyn, Charlotte, Raleigh, and San Antonio.
reported problems: Internet (62%), Total Blackout (19%), TV (17%)
Verizon Communications outage map
Recent reports mostly originate from: Pulaski, New York, Nashville, Brooklyn, Silver Spring, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Bronx, and Winchester.
reported problems: Internet (52%), Phone (43%), Total Blackout (4%)
...and that is just a small sampling of the list.
See if you can spot any trends amongst them--not just the types of services affected, but also where the reports are generated.
(look at the regions where most the reports are from--easy to spot on the maps that major hubs appear to be having issues)
There are known infrastructure issues with the internet throughout North America. Some of the major points in the Open Internet and Net Neutrality initiative in recent years basically focused around the issues of ISP's not properly maintaining upstream arrangements to support their increased bandwidth demands as they sell more/higher bandwidth packages. Some were even caught using it to force content providers to pay for better acess to their customers, essentially "double-dipping".
The traffic levels/problems ebb and flow constantly. If the ISP's aren't keeping up with the changes, you can run into high periods of congestion---and if left unchecked it can actually lead to congestive failure along popular routes. It is up to the ISP's to detect and correct such issues. Need to hold them accountable when you find such issues with your routing.
Testing with a VPN (use the free trials, don't have to pay to test them out) can pretty much prove there is a problem with your assigned route. If using one improves your stability, you have your answer and you need to contact your ISP and push for Tier3 support (sometimes referred to as Engineering) to conduct a proper investigation. They will need valid addresses for testing. Need to provide ones for both Japan and Canada, as you still connect to Japan periodically even when you play on a server in Canada:
Canada's Lobby Servers:
neolobby02.ffxiv.com
neolobby04.ffxiv.com
neolobby06.ffxiv.com
Japan's Lobby Servers:
neolobby01.ffxiv.com
neolobby03.ffxiv.com
neolobby05.ffxiv.com
