Constant Lag Spikes

[Autarkis]

ISP's throttle P2P traffic. FFXIV's data gets classed as P2P traffic and gets throttled.

Square Enix needs to ensure their traffic is not throttled.

There is nothing a user can do, nothing at all. It's all Square Enix, and frankly appears they do not care.

I'm not subbing to this game unless its fixed before my free time runs out.

[Marishi-Ten]

ISP's throttle P2P traffic. FFXIV's data gets classed as P2P traffic and gets throttled.

Square Enix needs to ensure their traffic is not throttled.

There is nothing a user can do, nothing at all. It's all Square Enix, and frankly appears they do not care.

I'm not subbing to this game unless its fixed before my free time runs out.

This isn't entirely accurate.

First, not all ISP's throttle P2P clients. This depends on the ISP and their own internal policies and firewalls. Contacting the ISP and requesting they whitelist the remote host ports and/or IP's will stop the throttling. ISP's can perform this function. Getting them to do it may be another matter entirely.

Second, This is not a client ISP issue. This is a remote node/port overload issue (numerous trace routes from this thread alone confirm the bottle neck occurs on a remote host hop).

Third, there are multiple avenues that users can take. Contact the rack/fiber provider that Square rents from and log tickets. Contact your ISP and request that you be rerouted around the hops having issues. Be vocal about the issue. These backbones rely on traffic being routed though them. If traffic slows, they lose money. If they lose money, they will address the issue.

[Berani]

ISP's throttle P2P traffic. FFXIV's data gets classed as P2P traffic and gets throttled.

Square Enix needs to ensure their traffic is not throttled.

There is nothing a user can do, nothing at all. It's all Square Enix, and frankly appears they do not care.

I'm not subbing to this game unless its fixed before my free time runs out.

Well, no.

Because once I started having this issue just this week, I called my cable company (Cox) and specifically asked if Final Fantasy XIV or any other MMO using a P2P style patcher is throttled.

The tech support team put me through to a supervisor, who checked the full list of all throttled services: Final Fantasy XIV is not on it.

So your theory just got thrown out the window.

As a service, they also reset my modem and sent a tech out to check the wiring. Nothing wrong. And the ONLY program on my computer that suffers this issue is FF: ARR.

So yes, the problem is indeed on Squeenix's end and not the client's in most cases. It's absolutely ABSURD to state that every ISP worldwide suddenly classed it P2P at the same time.