Constant Lag Spikes

[min99]

I'm with Wavebroadband in Washington state and the trace is to 184.107.107.176. I'm not sure how to check what IP that ffxi.exe is connected to.

edit

No proxy or firewall.

edit edit Found it and I'm connected to 199.91.189.48. Did a ping and 100% packet loss

[faeyte]

I have had absolutely no connection issues from P3 Beta until last night's maintenance. Since then I've had nothing but 90000 disconnects after loading, constant lagspikes and even lobby server issues. Half the time the game wouldn't load properly and then 90000 error. Now it works fine to log in, but the porting around and lagging is insane.

My original thought was there must of been congestion somewhere on the route across canada. Done a traceroute to the server I am on (on the montreal datacenter), and not one hop is above 60ms.

My ISP does not throttle anything, there are no real limits on bandwidth, and there is sufficient bandwidth speeds to run probably 10 or more games on this connection.

Regardless, this is frustrating =/

[min99]

Here's the trace to the ip ffxiv is connecting to:

Tracing route to 199.91.189.48 over a maximum of 30 hops

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms www.asusnetwork.net [192.168.1.1]
2 9 ms 20 ms 9 ms 10.30.0.1
3 7 ms 7 ms 9 ms static-24-113-126-225.wavecable.com [24.113.126.
225]
4 35 ms 12 ms 31 ms 64.146.252.253
5 10 ms 8 ms 11 ms ae0-124.sea23.ip4.tinet.net [216.221.158.97]
6 124 ms 111 ms 160 ms xe-1-0-0.mtl10.ip4.tinet.net [89.149.185.41]
7 116 ms * 116 ms ormuco-gw.ip4.tinet.net [216.221.156.110]
8 121 ms * 118 ms 192.34.76.2
9 * 127 ms 117 ms 199.91.189.234
10 128 ms 140 ms 113 ms 199.91.189.48

Trace complete.

[KisaiTenshi]

I had both DPS drop out on me on this last dungeon run, and they weren't replaced for like 5 minutes.

Tracing route to 199.91.189.43 over a maximum of 30 hops

3 14 ms 15 ms 15 ms 64.59.149.253
4 15 ms 23 ms 24 ms 66.163.68.161
5 31 ms 20 ms 17 ms 66.163.74.138
6 47 ms 48 ms 41 ms rc5wt-tge0-15-0-0.wa.shawcable.net [66.163.68.45]
7 17 ms 14 ms 13 ms ix-1-2-2-0.tcore1.00S-Seattle.as6453.net [64.86.123.53]
8 122 ms 120 ms 128 ms if-14-2.tcore1.PDI-PaloAlto.as6453.net [64.86.123.22]
9 118 ms * 129 ms if-2-2.tcore2.PDI-PaloAlto.as6453.net [66.198.127.2]
10 119 ms 117 ms 123 ms if-11-3.tcore2.CT8-Chicago.as6453.net [66.198.144.58]
11 119 ms 122 ms 118 ms if-3-2.tcore1.W6C-Montreal.as6453.net [66.198.96.45]
12 117 ms 118 ms 120 ms 66.198.96.50
13 120 ms 120 ms 130 ms 192.34.76.2
14 119 ms 117 ms 123 ms 199.91.189.234
15 118 ms 122 ms 121 ms 199.91.189.43

I was dropped earlier (see the other two threads about it) but it seems to have calmed down a bit.

It was never rubberbanding for me, but it kept acting like it stopped recieving data, as in I could keep walking, casting magic or something, but everyone else was standing still. I've been dropped twice.

[Nuferious]

Just throwing my support behind this post, as of this morning I am getting massive lag when connecting to the game server. When pinging / tracerouting the IP addresses provided I don't see anything out of the ordinary.

It looks to me like there is an issue with the network infrastructure behind their load balancer / gateway.

[KernelD]

I'm with Wavebroadband in Washington state and the trace is to 184.107.107.176. I'm not sure how to check what IP that ffxi.exe is connected to.

edit

No proxy or firewall.

edit edit Found it and I'm connected to 199.91.189.48. Did a ping and 100% packet loss

I'm also with Wavebroadband and having the issue.. I'm going to give those guys a call and see if they know anything.

EDIT: They said they hadn't heard anything, but the node having the issue is not one they can route around and is also not one they own. We would have to contact cogentco directly. Evidently Champions Online, World of Warcraft and several other MMOs also route through them and I see lots of posts (mostly old ones) from players of those games who experienced lots of issues of this same sort as well.

[Araye]

I'm also with Wavebroadband and having the issue.. I'm going to give those guys a call and see if they know anything.

Please post what you find out. I too am so lagged I cannot run a dungeon instance. I'm a tank, the leader, and half the time in an instance the mob I stand in front of isn't there anymore 2 seconds later.