Is it safe to use WTFast or Battle ping to reduce latency?

Before, I used WTFast to play some international games and I'm wondering if this is safe for us FFXIV players? does it Violate any rule from the rules and regulation?

What latency? Get some high speed cable internet...

although i'm not aware of it being against rules... why would you? sure the ping between the proxy and the server may be lower but youve still got to connect to the proxy so in other words you're putting your computer at risk connecting to a proxy to actually go further around thw world lol

From the strictly technical point of view there is no way of "improving" your (overall) latency by any kind of proxy-ing and you're actually puting yourself in the risk of having your login details being captured and used etc.

ignorance is bliss.

battleping works.

I use smoothping have done for over 7 years due to bad internet and can't upgrade due to location.Have no issues with any MMO when I have had to use it either from the mmo company or any account capture issues.It has reduced my ping from over 220ms to a steady 47ms I live in the UK

If you are worried just do what I did at first send a email and ask

i use smoothping as well, the thing its done for me is pretty much eliminate the 90k errors. I play from HK and was geting those every few mins. Now I go hours upon hours without getting that error.

I've been trying out WTFast with FFXIV, and it lowers my ping from 180 to 175. I guess I might be doing something wrong...

It does not violate the user agreement.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Rhime

What latency? Get some high speed cable internet...

---

Sadly, even in 2013, this is not an option for everyone. I live in a country that provides some of the fastest internet connections on this planet and in some places (including some major cities) it's not even possible to get a stable 2Mbit DSL connection.

Aside from that, depending on the route your ISP takes to the datacenter you can even have a gigabit fiber connection giving you crap.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Bixby

It does not violate the user agreement.

---

^
This, you are safe, free and allowed to use a VPN to improve your connection with the datacenter.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Rhime

What latency? Get some high speed cable internet...

---

FFXIV has some issues where this doesn't help. I'v got 75kb down and 10kb upstream, and still sometimes the game just decides to start lagging like hell and disconnecting me. It usually continues for an hour or 2. Sometimes entering an instanced dungeon solves the problem, sometimes it occurs at the very moment i do this. Even when FFXIV is acting up, everything else works perfectly fine at the same time. And it is the only game where i ever had issues like this (apart from times when an MMOs servers were acting up and everyone was having these problems).

I'v been thinking to try Battleping or the like myself, since several people in my FC could solve these problems with it. But i guess i'll wait for 2.1, and if it still occurs then, i'll try it out as well.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Naryoril

I'v got 75kb down and 10kb upstream.

---

That is low. Really, really, really low. Even by Australian standards which is pathetic enough already.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by CalvatE

That is low. Really, really, really low. Even by Australian standards which is pathetic enough already.

---

sorry, my mistake, it should be mbit, not kbit. I looked up the exact numbers on my ISPs website (because the get higher every year) and it says 75000/10000, but i didn't notice that the unit was kbit. So yeah, it's 75mbit down and 10mbit up.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Naryoril

sorry, my mistake, it should be mbit, not kbit. I looked up the exact numbers on my ISPs website (because the get higher every year) and it says 75000/10000, but i didn't notice that the unit was kbit. So yeah, it's 75mbit down and 10mbit up.

---

Can we trade internets? I don't like being on 1MB ADSL ;_;

ps: at least i can dodge plumes LOL thank frick for that.

Latency doesn't decrease with a bigger pipe. It's a completely separate issue, as long as you have enough bandwidth for the traffic the game requires, which is really low.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by mkaito

Latency doesn't decrease with a bigger pipe. It's a completely separate issue, as long as you have enough bandwidth for the traffic the game requires, which is really low.

---

It depends. If a proxy has direct or at least a better connections to the SE datacenters and our computers things they will improve. That's what after all they implemented in the KillZone: Shadow Fall online. They use a network of forwarding servers that basically act as routers for the game connections in a fast dedicated infrastructure.

But sure, if the latency is slow at the source or even worse they connection loses packets sometimes, things will never improve much.

Anyway, how do you test the ping to the FF XIV servers?

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Michelasso

Anyway, how do you test the ping to the FF XIV servers?

---

You need access to a windows machine as you'll need the command prompt.

You then type the command and the IP of the datacenter. The prompt will then get back to you with the possible route the signal had taken (hops) and the average ping.

WTFast is awesome. TWC is Los Angeles is still trying to pin down the bad hops on the way to Montreal.

(If you have TWC in SoCal Send your trace routes to scustomer@roadrunner.com ATTN: Dave)

Meanwhile i'm rocking a perfect connection again using WTFast. Anyone nay saying these services are just ignorant. The difference is night and day.

Still get hit with random spikes at times. Can't win them all. WTFast even shows a real time graph to what your internet is doing and what the tunneling route is doing. Pretty big difference.

Normally I wouldn't put much stock in things like this, partly cause I'm paranoid, and partly cause I don't want to pay for a service of this nature when my avg ping time to the datacenter is about 50ms.

Sadly even w/ such a low avg. ping I get (used to get) horrible lag spikes, nothing happening for 2~3 seconds then seeing everything play catchup as the data all slammed home at once. It was horrible and saw me dead more than a couple times.

Since I decided to try WTFast I haven't had any spikes, while it's running, that were enough to cause a problem.

hey Enfarious/Mrdapi,

I also resorted to using WTFast and it's been helping quite a bit, but I noticed some rubberbanding while playing Garuda EX. Just wondering if you both are using the "premium" or the regular sub? I'm almost done with my first month and curious if the extra money for the "premium" is worth it or not.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Rhime

What latency? Get some high speed cable internet...

---

No matter how fast your internet is, if the latency is there, you'll still experience a slow connection, hence the use of proxies. Genius.