Huge latency issues for weeks

For weeks now I've noticed a ton of lag, usually limited to duties. All of my party members would skip forward every so often, darting ahead as if I briefly disconnected and then of course everything fast forwarding. Occasionally it would be bad enough to freeze for several seconds before everything caught up.

Today however it's been worse than ever. Even in the world I've been unable to work on Housing furnishing today. I watch members skip around the FC estate, and even trying to open the Housing function menu takes 5-10 seconds, and often gives me "Failed to Complete Housing Action" if I try to do anything.

I ran a ping to the US data center with WinMTR, and the results are...egregious, to say the least. Is this a routing problem with my ISP or something on Square's end?

Screenshot included: https://i.gyazo.com/05786455317f450c...163311c023.png

The second number is the Packet Loss %, and the last two columns are the Worst and current ping at time of screenshot. Neither of these, obviously, are remotely good numbers. ESPECIALLY the packet loss.

I have had the same lag issues since patch 4.06a.

Verizon used to have an issue with my area where there was packet loss with the routing to Square's servers. This doesn't sound like something fixable on Square's end, aside from maybe contacting your ISP to work with them.

A few factors like where you live (roughly) and what ISP you have would help. Also, when you say you've had the problem for a few weeks, do you mean ever since the US data centers were moved from eastern Canada, to California?

Been getting it since 4.05 patch. They say to reset your router and do this other stuff but don't use no router its direct to my pc. Can have other mmo's on and stream movies at same time and they never disconnect when ffxi does. Tells me its coming from the state there servers are located in. Most days can't even que for a expert roulette before being disconnected. Before 4.05 never had any problems.