Bad Lag the Past Few Days

Hi, everyone. I've been having really bad lag the past few days and I've noticed it's not just me. I've seen a ton of people complaining about it. Anyone else having this problem? Do you think SE can or will ever fix it?

SE can't fix the internet...

The Garlean technology we have stolen only allows so much functionality. Give Cid a bit longer.

It's been perfect for me. There are many things between you and the server that can cause problems. It's only the server if literally everyone has the problem. Se can't fix the internet.

It has not just been the past few days.
I have not logged in for about 3 weeks due to xmas holidays ect, but even a few weeks before that, a lot of my friends where commenting on lag, and even opting to log off - as it was unplayable.

So yea, thousands of people are suffering from this lag, so dont worry its not only you.

It seemed to start a week or so before the 2.4 hotfix were implemented as we guessed mabye the servers where unstable and would simply be fixed by the hotfix.

But nope.

Considering December and January are the months that most folks take holidays, I am not surprised. The servers could just be weighed down with the extra traffic of folks who are on holiday wanting to play. I have been getting bad lag (even with my VPN on) mostly during peak hours NA time. That usually doesnt happen to me unless it's patch week or free login week.

Black loading screens are 40+ seconds on my PS4. And I'm not the only one it's happening to. DF parties been comlaining as well. Never really had lag since I upgraded from my PS3.

That's not how any of this works...

Are you in the US? There's a networking company called Level 3 with a point up near Montreal that frequently has packet loss problems. Your connection to XIV's servers might run through it depending on your ISP and what part of the country you're in.

The problem's been around intermittently since launch, but it's especially bad the past month or two.

Here's a thread about it from a year ago.

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Originally Posted by Vespar

Considering December and January are the months that most folks take holidays, I am not surprised. The servers could just be weighed down with the extra traffic of folks who are on holiday wanting to play. I have been getting bad lag (even with my VPN on) mostly during peak hours NA time. That usually doesnt happen to me unless it's patch week or free login week.

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I'm hoping the lag is going to die down soon with people coming back to work from holidays. I've also been experiencing bad lag during NA peak times since around the holidays, and before then during the major Level 3 issues.

With 2.5,2.51 and 2.5 part 2 (nicknamed 2.55 by players but I don't think it's actually been called that yet) just around the corner, I fear my hopes may be in vain. If it's the way it is now, I can play through it but if it gets worse, well...here's hoping it doesn't.

Wish SE had more servers at different locations so that I could pick/transfer to a server that has the best route for my location (like wow has a bunch of server locations, so a player can ping them all to find out which is best for them if they wanted to).

Not sure where you are all playing from, but an EU datacenter has been confirmed.
But thats a long ways off implementation, and doesnt help you now, I guess.

Something to look forward to though, as that surely has to help congestion/lag/ping.

I have been getting an abnormally high amount of R0 errors most evenings...
Or rather, most evenings where my FC raids. Usually fine on non-raid nights.

I've had a bit of lag the couple days, but I'm pretty sure that it's due to the weather. We were a few steps away from a blizzard, so I'm willing to be that was doing something. It cleared up around the time everything calmed down outside.

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Originally Posted by Kowen

Are you in the US? There's a networking company called Level 3 with a point up near Montreal that frequently has packet loss problems. Your connection to XIV's servers might run through it depending on your ISP and what part of the country you're in.

The problem's been around intermittently since launch, but it's especially bad the past month or two.

Here's a thread about it from a year ago.

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That L3 node near montreal has indeed been dropping out the last few weeks. L3 is also spiking 12% packect loss at times almost every day the last week since I have been tracking it, usually around 11am and 7pm est

Only lag I've been getting have been extra long load times going into a DF dungeon.... thats about it. An FC Mate recently had long lag just exiting the FC house - though we were able to communicate in the FC chat. He thought he was disconnecting until I was replying to him. We're both in NA and both on PCs.
I did DF into a a dungeon where one of the pugged people were saying they were getting huge waves of lag.... and everyone was frozen - though they were able to talk through it (much like my FC mate did).
I've only noticed this recently, also, (last two weeks-ish) but it sort of comes and goes and doesn't really effect me other than the DF load time...
Probably holiday vacation traffic. I believe winter break is about now, also.