Huge lag spikes since 2.5

Heya.

So since 2.5 hit, I have been having MASSIVE ping spikes (As in 2k ping+, or just flat-out 90k disconnects). This has been extra obnoxious as I only just hit 50 right before 2.5 hit, and now I am unable to tank anything because I ping-out mid fights.

I've talked to my provider, I've monitored my connection, I've tested other games, and everything is completely fine, so whatever is going on is going down on FFXIV's end.

I'm not really sure how to go about figuring out what is to be done, so I'm making a post here

I am from Famfrit, and the lag is so annoying, especially in instances...

I've never experienced lag before 2.5 either.

Hyperion here.
I've been experiencing serious lag ever since the 2.5 Free Weekend.
The amount of lag spikes and 90k errors has been so much I had to stop raiding because my random D/Cs were holding back my static.

This problem has been mentioned many times now by the comunity and SE hasn't said a word, which is disappointing and even more so considering the recent emergency maintenance wasn't even related to any of these connection issues affecting the people paying for this service.

I'd like to add my voice to this group. I've only been experiencing these spikes in the last day, however.

Detailed explanation:
The lag appears to be clearly connection related, rather than a matter of internet or simple speed. The actions and spells happening in game will simply stop and then a second or two later "catch up" at a rapid pace. At this exact moment, my "received" column in the connection mouse-over will drop to 0, and then rush up to several thousand as the dungeon catches up with itself. This will happen through the instance at anything from 10 second intervals to up to 2 minutes, but it is consistent. This morning, I experienced it doing Ifrit as part of my duty daily. I reset my internet, assuming it was on my end. Everything outside of the dungeon was fine before entering the duty, and also after, though I chose to reset all the same. Everything I did from that point outside of the duty finder was also fine, including a single PvP daily I did through the duty finder. As soon as I went to do today's daily however (the dailies reset afternoon EU, keep in mind) the spikes were back and made the dungeon fairly difficult. As soon as I left the dungeon, everything was back to normal and lag free.

I am playing on Gilgamesh, but am connecting from the EU. I would very much like to try some level 50 dungeons, though simply cannot afford to have the game stop processing for a second or two in any of them. Hopefully this information will help you address the problem.

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Originally Posted by Senyiro

I'd like to add my voice to this group. I've only been experiencing these spikes in the last day, however.

Detailed explanation:
The lag appears to be clearly connection related, rather than a matter of internet or simple speed. The actions and spells happening in game will simply stop and then a second or two later "catch up" at a rapid pace. At this exact moment, my "received" column in the connection mouse-over will drop to 0, and then rush up to several thousand as the dungeon catches up with itself. This will happen through the instance at anything from 10 second intervals to up to 2 minutes, but it is consistent. This morning, I experienced it doing Ifrit as part of my duty daily. I reset my internet, assuming it was on my end. Everything outside of the dungeon was fine before entering the duty, and also after, though I chose to reset all the same. Everything I did from that point outside of the duty finder was also fine, including a single PvP daily I did through the duty finder. As soon as I went to do today's daily however (the dailies reset afternoon EU, keep in mind) the spikes were back and made the dungeon fairly difficult. As soon as I left the dungeon, everything was back to normal and lag free.

I am playing on Gilgamesh, but am connecting from the EU. I would very much like to try some level 50 dungeons, though simply cannot afford to have the game stop processing for a second or two in any of them. Hopefully this information will help you address the problem.

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Few friends and I are having the exact same issue on Hyperion (We're all EU, however)
all using the same ISP (Virgin Media), all from different parts of the country.

I am also using Virgin Media... maybe there is a link there.

Honestly, I remember this happening last month at some point to myself and a few other members.
Fortunately it only lasted for a few hours, this time seems a little different.
Was thinking about making a post on the VM forums, however it's usually a 3 day wait for a reply - with a classic "Have you tried turning it off and on?"

*Shrugs* Hopefully it sorts itself out before event time. - all my sadfaces.

Also on Virgin Media. Came here as it's nigh on impossible to do any dungeons atm (tanks like those speedruns).

I had not received any noticable lag spikes since 2.5. Until today/this evening. I got home from work to join a queue, admittedly small queue though (24). Jumped in my random trial for the day. The lag spikes made Shiva HM a bit more interesting.

Also on Virgin Media, for what it's worth.

Huge lag spikes for the last 12 hours also with Virgin Media.

I did not notice anything when I played last night. Today its been bad at round 2-3 pm and now at 7 its even worse, Periods of no response or my character standing there waiting to accept or finish a quest.

I'm also on Virgin Media.

Never had this before, been playing since 2.1. Happened this morning and hasn't stopped since. It's frustrating.

With Virgin Media as well. Must be their end, then? Speedtest looks fine. Maybe it's a packet issue?

I use Shaw and I get these lag spikes from time to time as well. I suspect the issue may not be ISP-related.

Also on Virgin Media, also getting huge lag spikes. Got the lost connection error this evening which is incredibly rare for me. Also had lag spike problems last week but it didn’t last as long as this one right now.

Same for me, gigantic lag spikes, also on virgin media, with disconnects too

Been getting huge lag spikes tonight since 7pm. Also on Virgin Media. Can't be a coincidence that we're all experiencing problems and all on Virgin Media surely? How annoying :(

Also with Virgin, also lagging to hell.

Also with Virgin Media & lagging. Though I have friends on the same server with Virgin Media who aren't experiencing any lag, so it still may just be coincidence.

I'm experiencing lag too in home server and in instances.
I restarted client and nothings changed. Speedtest all pinged normal on 3 separate servers..

Not with virgin media (combo breaker!) I'm on time warner cable.

Was normal yesterday.. now its just bad.

Virgin Media became unusable for me. It started out fine for the first bunch of months, but at some point it stopped being reliable at all and was never fixed. I switched to BT Infinity, and I recommend any Virgin users in the UK to do the same.

i have the same issue atm. Coils t10-t11 was soo bad i had to stop but is been happening all over the game . Virgin media here to

same here VM same issues.

Doing nothing more than chirping in here. No idea if it's improved this late evening/early morning as I gave up playing hours ago. =P

VM. Same issues.

Same for me. WOD was pretty much unplayable as a result last night on Odin. Tried again this morning and was still bad and saw lots of players disconnecting during the run.

Also on Virgin Media.

Last night during raiding (around 7.30 pm Server time) a few members of my team were experiencing terrible lag. They said the game would just stop for a few seconds at the time. The strange thing is it would always happen about 30 seconds after a pull. Consistently every time in the same place for multiple people. Now I don't know what ISP's they are using, but the affected people are from the UK so I really wouldn't be shocked if it was Virgin Media. Someone else from my FC (but in a different static) was experiencing the same issue (UK based as well). The odd thing though is I'm also on Virgin Media and didn't experience any lag at all.

well safe to say the problem is still here this morning sigh

Yep, same here.
Still no reply to the Virgin Media forum posts either.

Routing issues at its best. '-'

http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen...ia_lag_issues/

Looks like the cause of the issue is there.