Rubberbanding issues

Greetings,
I've been experiencing heavy rubberbanding issues for the past two days of gaming, all on the EU servers. I've seen a similar case happen in a previous thread that relates to my case:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...Louisoix/page2

I'm connected through a wired connection to the router-modem, my ISP is MEO, I was wondering if I could get any help through here as I've run troubleshooting incessantly on the most varied means, from turning off CPU throttling to troubleshooting via Internet Explorer as I've witnessed in several other support pages.

My game runs perfectly when connected to the US or JP servers as well, I beg for assistance. :(

I've been having these issues ever since Spriggan and Twintania were added to Chaos and Light Datacenters.
depending on the load on the servers, i experience severe rubberbanding lag to the point where gameplay becomes impossible.

this has been discussed in a german thread on these forums before, but SE has been silent about it.

I've been having the same issues to the point of being "forced" to use a VPN in order to play the game.

My ISP is MEO as well and I have a wired connection as well.

I'm having the same problem, and while I feel the EU server/routing never has been stable for a long time the past few weeks things are getting worse.
last weekend ping went over 1000ms at certain times, below you can see that on hop14
I'm from the Netherlands, IPS Ziggo.
https://i.imgur.com/v2Cz5mb.png

even now there are still some problems with packetloss happening every now and then, see trace below.
https://i.imgur.com/x2l51dK.png

I would also like to point out that I can connect to the NA servers just fine without lag.
did a trace this weekend to show that it's not my connection, so it seems that somewhere in the routing to the EU servers there is a problem going on.
https://i.imgur.com/DSmYq8G.png

Good morning and thank you for posting on the Final Fantasy XIV Technical Support Forums.

Acornbot, please try the following troubleshooting steps:

- The game will use the Internet Explorer web browser to connect to the internet. Open Internet Explorer, then open the "Tools" setting, go to "Internet Options" and adjust the following settings:
- Under the "General" tab, please delete ALL browser history.
- Under the "Security" tab, please move the slider to the lowest possible settings or no higher than "Medium"
- Under the "Privacy" tab, click “Advanced” and select ‘Accept’ under both First Party and Third Party Cookies.
- Under the "Advanced" tab, please make sure that "Allow software to run or install even if signature is invalid" is CHECKED.
- Make sure that all SSL and TLS (EXCEPT SSL 3.0) are CHECKED. [SSL 3.0 should be UNCHECKED]
- Hit "Apply" to save the settings, and then "OK, to close the Internet Options menu.
- Right-Click on the FFXIV launcher icon and select "Properties"
- Hit "Apply", then "OK" to save the changes.
- Please RESTART your PC now. Once your PC has been restarted, Right-Click the FFXIV launcher icon once more and select "Run as Administrator"

-Make sure your fire wall or antivirus program is not interfering with the game

- Check to see if the following port ranges are opened on your router. You can contact your ISP and request they open them for you:
▼TCP
54992 through 54994,
55006 through 55007,
55021 through 55040

-Try disabling background applications and do a clean boot by opening the task manager and selecting the “Start up” tab. Disable everything and then restart the PC.

Thank you for posting in the Final Fantasy XIV Technical Support Forums.

I've mentioned in my first post, I've gone through that troubleshooting as part of my many attempts, without success at improving the situation, thank you for the reply. I will try to contact my ISP to open those ports for me as I've attempted to on my own but was unable to safely complete.

Also being affected by this for the last couple of days, while previously i had no issues - and also under MEO ISP, while connected via NOS Mobile Internet it works fine, Acornbot since you mentioned you were contacting MEO, was there any light?

Also good to note, this issue happens for me in both PS4 and PC, so the Internet Explorer General troubleshooting steps will never have any effect.

As it currently stands it looks like its ISP related, at least on my end.

Just started having this the past day or two and I have never had this issue before, though it might have started earlier since I hadn't been playing much recently.
This is on NA Adamantoise, rubberbanding all over the place. I can't even play the game because the game just completely stops and speeds up.

For note it is only FF14 I have this problem with.

I'm currently experiencing exactly what you are. It's infuriating.

Almost everyone in EVERY instanced roulette I've been in today is getting MASSIVE Lag spikes. I thought it was just me but after switching between 2 different internet connections I was STILL having the same issues. I'm on Crystal Data Center on Zalera an NA server. I don't know what's going on but SE's instance servers are having some MAJOR problems.. PLEASE FIX THIS SE!! it's SO infuriating to have to hardcast EVERYTHING as an RDM because lag spikes are not allowing dualcast to make your spells instant.

Been having issues too since the 7th, was unplayable for about 3 days and now is sorta playable witj constant. Lag spikes. Meo isp and. Eu server, na servers have no issues and from ping tests NA has 0 packet loss while EU has constant packet losses when it hits a telia. Net node

Can confirm, also started experiencing this issue earlier today, and it's still on/off and not going away.

As I understand it, "NTT" is what they call a tier-1 internet provider, and xfinity piggybacks on their nodes when making some of their connections. Very recently, these Chicago, IL coming from NTT have been acting up, showing complete packet drops or otherwise doubling ping. I'm usually about 100ms, but today I was like 220ms, if the packet even makes it (at least 30% packet loss from what I've seen).

I'm east coast and apparently "forced" to route through them as I connect to the west-coast-based FFXIV servers, for example at 204.2.229.88 , which should be one of the ones at Aether datacenter.

PvP is laughable when it gets bad, with barely 10 seconds of real-time before it's a frozen slideshow, and maybe it'll catch up, or maybe it'll just full-disconnect you.

As I mentioned, normal for me was just under 100ms. Here is what i saw earlier from just a simple ping -- 206ms with half of them lost:
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...81/unknown.png

I've been having major connectivity issues along with rubber banding today to, and it has been ongoing for the last 8 hours now. My usual ping is ~53ms and no packet loss, but today I've been going from 53ms up to as high as 169ms along with up to 15~25% packet loss when doing a ping -t on the servers IP address. This is nothing to do with user settings, as I've already done numerous trouble shooting and FFXIV is the only network application having issues. I was hoping it would get better, but 8 hours later and still having issues along with nothing on SE's end even acknowledging it is an issue? The game is absolutely unplayable with this problem.

This sounds like the recurring NTT node problem. The only difference is that it's effecting more people tonight than usual. There are a couple post about it on Reddit currently.

Yup, seems you are correct there. Didn't even thing to do a pathping check......~sigh~

Unfortunately from all research I've done and direct communication with my ISP and NTT there is very little you can do other than slap the VPN band-aid on it and hope it fixes the issue. NTT basically told me to F*** off because I'm not their customer and unfortunately there is nothing my ISP can do about it since it isn't on their side D: I share all of your pain since this has been an on and off issue for 2-3 years with NTT but I've tested the VPN on all 4 of our computers and it seems to resolve the latency and packet loss issues.

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Originally Posted by Acornbot

I've mentioned in my first post, I've gone through that troubleshooting as part of my many attempts, without success at improving the situation, thank you for the reply. I will try to contact my ISP to open those ports for me as I've attempted to on my own but was unable to safely complete.

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Thank you for the reply Acornbot.

If you have tried the standard troubleshooting and your connection is fine to the other Data Centers, you may be running into a routing issue along your way to the EU Server. Unfortunately, the troubleshooting we provide is unlikely to be effective if the issue stems from outside of your home network. In this case, I'd recommend contacting your ISP regarding the issue and making a report with them.

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I'm experiencing the same lag the past two weeks. Massive lag spikes. Any other game is fine. Please help