For Hawaii PC players Lag issues.

Time warner cable is the best you can do, I have 100mbps down and 5 up.

I run the game on max settings with 100+ fps, I have a monster rig. 2 gtx 680's sli'd.

For everyone who plays from hawaii, we always have a disadvantage over everyone. This game was the first game I found unbearable to play. The rubberbanding was just getting so annoying, and you would think being in the middle of the pacific ocean there is nothing we can do about it.

Hawaii NEEDS a west coast server to play on, but since SE decided to have their data center in the upper right hand corner of NA furthest from hawaii, we are poop out of luck but dont worry.

Unfortunately if you want to play this game decently you will have to pay extra money on the side for a vpn, I use pingzapper. google it.

Our connection from hawaii gets routed from hawaii > Los Angelas > Dallas > Chicago > Montreal. Yes..... horrible route...

On ping zapper you can use your own server to tunnel through. Choose a chicago server directly and phase out LA and dallas.

I still have a client - server lag issue but i no longer have rubber banding.

hopes this helps the people with the real lag issue pinging NA servers at 180 ms and spiking up in 500's

Use this link to get one free month if you pay for one month

https://pingzapper.com/ref/desolo you must put "Desolo" in the refferal name to get the free month

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTCXliIW8yE <---- My tutorial on how to set up Pingzapper for hawaii players.

Nice post Desolo....just suks my laptop is poho lol..

I live on Kauai and yeah the rubberbanding is horrible. In regards to pingzapper, If I buy 30 days, do i get literally "30 days of pingzapper time", or will it run out in a month regardless of how much i have it 'on'?

like any one moth subscription, its regardless of how much you have it on.... but its 4$ for a month... or buy it for a year for 30$... and you can use a free trial but it limits you to 1 hour of pingzapper time at a time so you would have to restart your game every hour or so

use the link i posted and you get one free month

Thanks bud, I signed up for 1 month and also got the 30 days free as well. So far I haven't noticed any lag issues.

TWC throttles me too hell and it makes divebombs a hit or miss to dodge so hopefully this helps.

my fc is a hawaii based build and everyone whose tried it and used a serverdirectly in chiacago has experienced no rubber banding at all :D jsut make sure your tunnel is through chicago

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Originally Posted by Desolo

my fc is a hawaii based build and everyone whose tried it and used a serverdirectly in chiacago has experienced no rubber banding at all :D jsut make sure your tunnel is through chicago

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I'm based in the NE of the U.S. and the Chicago server is the best for me as well. I didn't experience any rubber banding or lag at all tonight on Twintania. Highly recommended program.

im glad it worked out for you :D

Tried this on O'ahu and it didn't work. :\

are you doing it correctly? it has worked for everyone i know in hawaii that plays this lol, make sure you have it tunneling to chicAGO, you MUIST launch the game with pingzapper, and you have to turn pingzapper on, little sliding tab next to "[ingzapper" in the program.,


Making a video guide on how to use pingzapper and what it does ... will post link after done rendering and uploaded

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTCXliIW8yE Pingzapper tutorial for hawaii users, other players can use it but you may want to use a different server location depending on your cmd tracert

Bump for no lag!!!

Nice writeup Desolo! Ping Zapper is good stuff, many of the EU and JP members of my FC use this and have no issue dodging anything.
(I've even seen one EU member have time to cast a cure when Weight of the Land pops and have plenty of time to not take damage.)
If I didn't live in Chicago I would totally take you up on this offer.
You are a saint for sure. ♥

lololol! you are cute

bummmppp make the game a better place

Bumping this too for those of us in Hawaii (and everywhere else with issues!)
I used to be able to put up with the latency spikes I had early on, but now it's become a heavy packet loss issue and the rubberbanding actually makes it impossible to play. The free trials worked great, so think I may finally cave and pay for a VPN-- it's that or quit :< just a shame we need to pay extra just for a tolerable connection.

Thanks for the post :3 didn't realize Chicago was my best bet. Had just been toying around with servers along the west and east coasts.

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Originally Posted by RemnantSoldier

Tried this on O'ahu and it didn't work. :\

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Might want to try Battleping. I also live on Oahu and used to have massive lag spikes. Got this and it was a world of difference.

URL: http://www.battleping.com/

Just posting to say I also use pingzapper, and it has saved me a lot of stress. (I love in socal.)

As a note, it let's you have up to two computers using it at the same time, which worked out perfectly since hubby and I both play.

This:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-user-with-lag
AND
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...P2P-throttling

pingzapper saved my life

Desolo? you just saved my coil group hahahahaha!!!! WOW I was pretty skeptical at first, now that I've tried it and it works >.< Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!

you are welcome,

when u have these hugs lag issues try going to pingtest.net and testing your ping I think TWC is fucked up out here cause I live in Waikiki and have the same issues.

nah, I never have any issues with any other games or anything, its only ff14 cuz the serve ris in montreal and how it gets routed there is messed up

they sure did screw us then its some bs

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