Constant massive lag spikes, and occasional 90002 disconnects only FFXIV affected

Hi all! I have been an on and off player since 2.0, and have had no real issues before. however recently (the last week) i have been getting constant brief lag spikes and occasional full disconnects. I am using the same router, modem, and computer that i have been using for the last year. I tried looking for some solutions such as using my vpn to put me in a different location, changing my IP address to googles, reinstalled the game, made sure all drivers for EVERYTHING were up to date, restarted my modem and router, and prayed to any god that will listen. any advice? (all other services work perfectly on my computer even during the disconnects with ffxiv)

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When the connection issue occurs,is it during a raid or dungeon? Additionally, have any updates or changes been made to the network settings?

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No changes to the network have been made (aside from a few things that i have done to fix the issue to no luck). I get the lag and stutters in the main world, in cities and in the open world. However the serious issues begin when i am in any dungeon or raid.

The exact same thing is happening to me in SERVER LOUISOIX. And everything in my gaming environment is perfect, and this started two days ago and although I just put up a post, they just told me in Dungeon that there are quite a few people who have been going through it since the weekend. Exactly the same thing happens to me, when I enter the Dungeon it becomes unbearable and I have never had problems, nor have I changed anything or touched anything

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Are you connected directly to the router or are you using WiFi? Please make sure the only program running as running background programs could interfere with the game. In addition to this, I advise to make sure that the Final Fantasy XIV game application is allowed through the fire wall.


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I am hardwired to the internet (not using WIFI) I do have other programs running but they are the same that were running for the last few years without problem (spotify, logitech software for my mouse and such). I did go into my firewall settings a few days ago and made certain that every part of FFXIV that i could find was allowed, but this did not seem to help the issue.

**Kosmos2040's post reminded me that i also called my ISP last friday and they said there were no known issues in my area, then they contacted my modem and saw no issues with connection**

I've been having the same issue with massive lag spikes which lead into 90002 disconnects. This only started recently since the deployment of the latest hotfix. I'm directly connected to my modem and there are no programs interfering with the game, nor is my firewall a problem. Everything is how it has always been. The only difference in network for me is I bought a new modem yesterday which has improved my overall internet speed but has not improved FFXIV. The lag spikes are still ever present. I normally would not get receiving over 200 at any given time but now its going over the 1000's and if I'm running an alliance raid it can get over 15K receiving before I get disconnected. This has never happened since I started playing when 2.0 came out.
I'm on Midgardsormr server.

*Additional Information* I have already contacted my ISP about the issues and they have not seen any issues in my area for the past month. The only issue they might have seen was my new router didn't get provisioned all the way but that is corrected. While my network speeds are now even better, FFXIV network performance is still the same as it was.

Been literally having the same issues as Kosmos2040, huge lag spikes/rubberbanding that sometimes can lead into 9002 disconnects especially when trying to interact with marketboards or aetherytes and such.

This also started when the latest hotfixes were deployed, another thing I noticed immediately as well was how my connection went from "Excellent" to "Poor". It has been going back and forth ever since. It's never been this bad for me.

Like the others, I am hardwired and have only been running the very few programs I've been running previously.

This is on Primal.

I'm on elemental and have been having the exact seem issues since the new "hotfix" never had issues before. Also hardwired and don't have any issues with other programs or games only ffxiv specifically.

what's going on, i cant connect to north american data centers, but it will let me visit my EU alt.
i keep getting Lobby server has encountered an error? 20002

I think they messed something up with the hotfix and its seems to be getting progressively worse

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Originally Posted by Verakai

I think they messed something up with the hotfix and its seems to be getting progressively worse

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It really is like that, no matter how much we look at our PCs, the problem I do not honestly believe is ours, although I cannot assure it either, but everything is very rare

I just wanted to add Ultros to the list of servers affected right now. Mostly experiencing lag spikes, was unable to connect to the server once.

Traveled to Famfrit and also experienced lag there.

A friend playing on ps4 stated they were not experiencing lag spikes, but the other friends I've spoken to who play on pc are all experiencing lag spikes.

Most content is unplayable currently due to these issues.

In order to make sure it wasn't my ISP (Comcast) I went with the nuclear option and switched my ISP to At&T Fiber. (Was going to do this any ways when the service came to my area), but the constant lag spikes just pushed me faster to that direction. I'm now getting 997mbs download with 916mbs upload and I'm still getting constant lag spikes on Midgardsormr since that hotfix came out.

I have no idea what I can do, but it's making a lot of content very difficult run. Even swapping to using VPN and changing different locations hasn't helped, in fact, it just makes the lag worse.

I have been with these same problems for 5 days and after going crazy looking for solutions today it occurred to me to try something, I don't know if it has really been solved but what I can tell you is that since I have done this the game is perfect again.

It turns out that I play with 2 screens, the secondary one is connected by HDMI and the one I play with is connected by DP. Well, today I have tried to disconnect the second screen and connect the first screen through HDMI instead of DP and all day I have not suffered falls or cuts in the game. I have tried again to put the DP and when I put it I do not suffer cuts of 10 seconds every X time but I do notice that the image of the game goes like jerks, almost imperceptible but they are noticeable if you look at it. I have taken and disconnected the second screen and at the moment I am only with the main one (which annoys me a lot) but at the moment it does not seem to have problems although I really doubt if this is the solution or just the game has given it the whim to give solution suddenly. I will continue to inform you but I leave this information here in case the same thing happens to any of you and you can try this that I did

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I come to report that it has not worked, just yesterday the game wanted me to go well and period, today it is exactly the same