Severe lag and error 90000s in high pop areas since 2.4 release.

As the title says, I am having major lag issues. Prior to the patch, everything was fine and dandy, but since the release everything's been awful. Areas that are instanced like the Rising Stones are okay, but even something like the Lavender Beds subdivision runs slowly. High population/activity areas like Revenant's Toll give me 90ks after about 30 seconds, so I cannot really do anything; even pulling up my linkshell or Free Company windows is useless, as they are blank. I've tried everything I can think of on my end to try and correct this:

- Reset my network adapter
- Reset my network hardware (modem+router)
- Tried connecting directly to my modem
- Flushed DNS

I did a tracert, and it came back normal (well, normal for me-- 17 hops, the final of which was 140ms). Other games are fine as well, and I don't have another character that I can check. None of the people I play with are having any issues. For what it's worth, my ISP is Oceanic Time Warner Cable.

edit- this is on the Sargatanas server of the Aether datacenter.

No, its not just you. I am having the same issue in the US. Early morning right after patch. No problem. It wasn't till about 3pm US CST that the 90ks started to come even faster and more frequent. They definitely happen a LOT more frequently in high pop areas.

Same here. Can only really stay in housing areas where theres less people. Once I try to go to Lominsa or anywhere with heavy traffic, it lags badly or get the 90000. Is this going to continue until people start not playing again??

the same lag/disconnection problem here, got no problem whatsoever before patch, and lag spike/disconnections afterwards

I'm currently using Battleping and I haven't gotten slapped with another error yet, so I guess I have to resubscribe to one of these VPNs.

About the same issue with me. I'm getting massive lag spikes every 10 minutes or so. It was fine before 2.4.

I'm having the same problem.

I would occasionally get this error before the patch, but since the patch the frequency of disconnects has skyrocketed.

It actually would be tolerable if the dps queue times weren't so long right now. Every time I get disconnected, it kicks me out of the queue even if I reconnect immediately. Very frustrating.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...elating-to-it/