Servers are Lagging

Or at least the Aether Data Center is. Every time you do something in game it takes a few seconds to register. Sometimes it takes a whole minute. And sometimes you just disconnect.

I thought it was just me at first, but everyone in my guild on Midgardsormr is having the same issue. And when I switched to my character on Gilgamesh, I got the same results. My internet works fine, Skype works fine, my wifi works fine. Me and my friends over Skype are just having problems with this game.

It's a real pain too. I died during a Levequest because I just lagged out, and I don't have the leve allowance to try it again. And then I tried doing the cliffhanger fate at the Golden Saucer. Oh man, that was like the hardest thing I've ever done, invisible bombs would just be exploding everywhere.

There's a lot of recent complaints on Primal too, though I am experiencing none of it myself.

Same here in Jenova. I'm surprised I made it out of a dungeon with no one dying.

Rubberbanding and stopping receiving as well. Quite impossible to play. Only on FFXIV.

Exodus suddenly started having issues around the same time also. Like the OP said, I tried everything on my end but still getting stoppages and delays. Many people affected but not everyone apparently?

I think that if servers were lagging right at the core, it would affect everyone.
As long as lags affect only some portion of players (even if it could be 30% of them) the problem is on the route between the server and players.

I am not saying it is you guys, but we had same problem a few days ago and it was problem on the route to Frankfurt, not SE's fault.

May be some issues with Level 3 again, for some of us. Boyfriend was having severe packet loss earlier, but it's stabled out again - myself, I've been having random lag periods around 9:30-10pm, nothing so bad as to make the game unplayable, but bad enough for stuff like PotD when one of your dps is content to wander off on his own and drag 5 mobs back with him >>

The people on my LS were asked what isp they had. All of the ones that were lagging said Comcast. Safe to say there's a good chance they're the issue.

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Originally Posted by Norleas

The people on my LS were asked what isp they had. All of the ones that were lagging said Comcast. Safe to say there's a good chance they're the issue.

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*raises hand* yup

Time Warner customer, Aether data center, and the last three days have been pretty bad for me. A lot of lag spikes and rubber banding, especially in instanced content. Hell, half of a DF A2 group I was in earlier were teleporting all over the arena, complaining of their own lag.

I had to bail on my group in Expert roulette cus I couldn't heal, was going to bail anyway as the tank was one of those "You need to do better dps" but can't hold hate when they do. I do have comcast but zero issues with other games or sites. I know my FC is a fair amount of Northern or Canadian players and they have no issue but being further away, I do.

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Originally Posted by Mysteltain

Time Warner customer, Aether data center, and the last three days have been pretty bad for me. A lot of lag spikes and rubber banding, especially in instanced content. Hell, half of a DF A2 group I was in earlier were teleporting all over the arena, complaining of their own lag.

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We share the same provider, yet I suffered 0% lag, DC, problems.

Unplayable right now.

Somehow Cleared Weeping City. But The Lag was everywhere with everyone. - Primal servers qq ;;

Yeah, a lot of people were saying that they were having lag issues on their end during the Wiping City of Salt (yep, we wiped a few times because of it). My server is running just fine.

Lag also seems to be happening only in dungeons/raids. Lag is really not a problem/issue outside of them.

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Originally Posted by Mirakumi

Lag also seems to be happening only in dungeons/raids. Lag is really not a problem/issue outside of them.

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My neice was playing earlier and was having horrible lag doing fates trying to finish up the Yokai event. Everything was freezing for 10-60 seconds at a time and several disconnects.

Reddit also feels the lag. ;p https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...bad_right_now/

Noticing it on Sargatanas too. I was doing A7 and I kept noticing the Lag during it and everyone was experincing it too.

Lagging up a storm here on Balmung. Random large lag spikes, frequent disconnects. Been having the problem for hours on end now.

I experienced the weirdest lag event today whilst teleporting within the Gold Saucer. The screen froze for a good 15-20 seconds then the new zone loaded but I was invisible. I ran around for about 10 seconds before the teleporting in animation occurred. I've never seen that happen before. I run a poo-hot PC setup so it is definitely not client side & I'm on Sky Broadband from the UK which doesn't use Level 3 routing.

Whatever is up it looks to be internal to the SE server farm as it's exclusive to FFXIV & my connection is rock steady with nothing else using for it. Eventually I got a 90k but that was long after I'd teleported back to The Goblet & gone AFK. I'm on Leviathan.

Like I said, never encountered anything like this is my 2+yrs in FFXIV.

UPDATE - Just performed a new trace & it appears Sky Broadband *do* now route via Level 3, at least on occasion. Why they'd suddenly choose to go via that crap is beyond me, especially as they've not done so before.

Level 3 may well be a common factor, although I'm not showing any packet loss or latency increases on those hops at the moment.

Well day 2 on Coeurl and got Titan in Trial. Landslide, move out of the way and 5 secs later I go flying off despite moving far away. I don't even know why I am attempting to play =/

It's been borderline unplayable for me this afternoon. Other games work fine online, but not FFXIV.