Packet Loss since stormblood

Hi Since Stormblood I find my game seems to be lagging every now and then. It's not presently at the point of unplayable but it can be pretty frustrating trying to keep ontop of my ninjutsu and mudras and other job related stuff.

I was wondering if anyone has been experiencing any issues with lag recently. However before I put this in technical support i'd like to check a couple of things.

Firstly is 209.2.229.10 IP address floating around the forums and reddit the correct one for the aether data centre?

if not then could anyone tell me what it is.

Secondly assuming it is correct. running a ping test 1000 times
"ping -n 1000 209.2.229.10" brings back the following results..

[1000 lines of results]
Ping statistics for 204.2.229.10:
Packets: Sent = 1000, Received = 929, Lost = 71 (7% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 207ms, Maximum = 511ms, Average = 211ms

My ping is also a lot higher than usual. part of me thinks the congested servers might have an impact on that. or even the recent ddns attacks.

is anyone else experiencing similar issues at all