Lag in the last week

Been noticing lag spikes on Aether datacenter when my internet connection and ping to the server has been fine. Other people have been seeing it too -- rubberbanding from time to time for just a second or two. Likely the server itself having issues? Overloaded or w/e?

These spikes are happening many times in a day, everywhere -- in crowded city areas, in sparsely populated areas like Ul'dah Weaver's guild, during 4-man instanced duties, etc.

Another example to show something is up w/ the servers, from just the other day:

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...46/unknown.png

and ofc the follow-up to show about 5min passed while "party fully formed"
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...06/unknown.png

^in this particular case, after 10 or so minutes of fully formed party with "Reserving server", some people eventually tired of waiting and left

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When did this start happening? Do you recall anything changing/updating on your PC or home network that coincides with this?

You mentioned you ping to the server was fine, did you do a ping test or trace route? Can you provide that information?

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