How do you check your ping?
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How do you check your ping?
Windows Key + R
Type "resmon"
Tab "Network"
Click "FFXIV"
Look under "TCP Connections" and you will see two FFXIV entries showing you the ping.
A fc mate showed me this.
Thanks you!
Ok so how do i interpret this. It looks like the problem is right at the end with SE?
Quote:
Tracing route to 199.91.189.25 over a maximum of 30 hops
0 .in.comcast.net. [10.0.0.5]
1 10.0.0.1
2 24.12.32.1
3 68.86.114.229
4 te-1-8-0-4-ar01.area4.il.chicago.comcast.net [68.87.230.157]
5 he-3-6-0-0-cr01.350ecermak.il.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.95.9]
6 ix-0-2-2-0.tcore1.CT8-Chicago.as6453.net [64.86.137.45]
7 if-22-2.tcore2.CT8-Chicago.as6453.net [64.86.79.1]
8 if-3-2.tcore1.W6C-Montreal.as6453.net [66.198.96.45]
9 66.198.96.50
10 192.34.76.2
11 199.91.189.234
12 199.91.189.25
Computing statistics for 300 seconds...
Source to Here This Node/Link
Hop RTT Lost/Sent = Pct Lost/Sent = Pct Address
0 .in.comcast.net. [10.0.0.5]
0/ 100 = 0% |
1 0ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% 10.0.0.1
0/ 100 = 0% |
2 12ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% 24.12.32.1
0/ 100 = 0% |
3 11ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% 68.86.114.229
0/ 100 = 0% |
4 15ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% te-1-8-0-4-ar01.area4.il.chicago.comcast.net [68.87.230.157]
0/ 100 = 0% |
5 14ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% he-3-6-0-0-cr01.350ecermak.il.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.95.9]
0/ 100 = 0% |
6 13ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% ix-0-2-2-0.tcore1.CT8-Chicago.as6453.net [64.86.137.45]
0/ 100 = 0% |
7 13ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% if-22-2.tcore2.CT8-Chicago.as6453.net [64.86.79.1]
0/ 100 = 0% |
8 42ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% if-3-2.tcore1.W6C-Montreal.as6453.net [66.198.96.45]
0/ 100 = 0% |
9 107ms 3/ 100 = 3% 3/ 100 = 3% 66.198.96.50
0/ 100 = 0% |
10 38ms 1/ 100 = 1% 1/ 100 = 1% 192.34.76.2
0/ 100 = 0% |
11 111ms 5/ 100 = 5% 5/ 100 = 5% 199.91.189.234
0/ 100 = 0% |
12 36ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% 199.91.189.25
Trace complete.
I am not sure, but I believe it is at this point, a Comcast problem.
If you check routes to comcast.com (not.net) and you will see some issues there as well. I have someone looking into it from dslreports.com but Comcast are doing some major network updates nation wide that probably account for routing issues.
I'm in Chicago as well and have the exact same problem.
PingPlotter freeware is also a nifty tool that does min/max/avg ping with tracert showing packet loss at each router hop, and has nifty graphs.
All you need to do is plug in the FFXIV IP (199.91.189.25 from above) and enjoy. A while back I let it run each night at different times. I'm with Time Warner and the last hop out of their network space tbone.rr.com to atlas.cogentco.com routers is dropping between 2% up to a whopping 49% of packets, depending on time of day. The final hops to Montreal data center (via mtl.iweb.com) have no loss for me.
Good thing I'm switching ISPs very soon to a different fiber backbone than Time Warner's Road Runner. I bet much of the "server lag" people complain about is their own ISP, or the routing through eastern NA right now, dropping packets. I've seen definite lag on server side events as well, like demon wall push back delayed 5 seconds with battle continuing normally, so their servers aren't perfect either.
Gotta get up on the Fiber :)
http://www.speedtest.net/result/3037905830.png
It's 2013 and we still have major AAA online PC games that don't show your ping!?!?!?!?!
So is 170 ping bad for FFXIV? Because that's what my ping is and I have zero problems with dodging aoe attacks like in Titan HM.
I sit around 200 ping to the Japanese servers from Canada, hasn't bothered me much but I'm not much of a raider so...
The effects can be felt in all activities but it's pretty slight.
By the by I ping around 100 to the NA servers.
You can also do this
Start menu type in "CMD"
In CMD type in
"ping 184.107.107.176" for NA/EU data center
"ping 202.67.53.202" for JP data center
Yeah! That works great! Thanks!
My latency doubled. I'm glad I haven't invested too much in this game.
Question to those that know this stuff, lol
How do those with PS4 check out our latency?
I knew how to do it on windows
I'm at 94. I have no idea what it was before the move. But I imagine that because I'm in Denver, I have a lower ping now.
My average is 56. Still doesn't tell me where the server is though...
drop Comcast or get wtfast.
Comcast is like the biggest net ripoff in the USA
Also you assume wrong, you are not far from monteral at all, that is a 35-50 ping, same with any decent ISP in the north, central, and east USA. Have a friend on the SE side and got 35 ping. Going to the west sucks.
Depends on the game but 50 and under is supposed to be smooth for anything, 100+ is high for how this game is coded though. (though you still have delays at 0 ping because they put delays on abilities for some reason)
idk, i use comcast from Indiana and my avg ping is 48sec
http://www.speedtest.net/result/6313113561.png
not sure if it matters, but did that on my pc which has a wireless connection to my router. (play on ps4)