Really sick of the EU latency problems

[ZakarnRosewood]

Why on earth is SE's EU datacenter not actually located in EU?

Every night from 7-11pm myself and many others have massive instance lag where the game can freeze for 30 seconds+ For example titan phase 1, i froze for 2 landslide / stomp rotations (was in a good spot luckily).

It's not my isp/pc and i get massive latency timeouts when doing a pingtest or traceroute.. Can't even raid with my FC because of it..

SE ffs spend a few bucks and make an EU datacenter.. Any other MMO i play i never have this problem (they have EU dc)

Signed,

Disgruntledeuropeanwhoismostlikelynotresubbingnextmonth......


/endrant

Please, before you rage quit, Look into this post by the Dev's (not sure if it was already posted or not. so if it was, sorry!)

P2P Throttling in the EU

I hope this is what you are experiencing. I'm on an EU server and have friends who experienced this. They ended up changing ISP's and this solved their issue but I think everyone would benefit more from talking to the ISP's with the issue and getting it solved. I hope this helps, i know how frustrating it can be, but there are solutions out there and the Dev's are aware. Good luck and hope you find a solution.

Zakarn, P2P is used for files downloading (in FFXIV's case, it used to be patches), it has nothing to do with server communication, since for P2P you don't really have a server (except for getting the peer lists). In any case, even if your ISP blocks/throttles P2P, it won't lag you. Reading the post you linked, I'm really doubting that's really what's happening.

At least it's not the whole picture, since I am getting lag yet my ISP doesn't throttle P2P as I have no typical symptoms - my µtorrent is always at peak speeds if the swarm can serve it.

What does lag you is running P2P programs parallel to the game, since EU countries still use a lot of asynchronous connections, for example ADSL where the upload bandwidth is fairly limited compared to download bandwidth, and since each packet has to be confirmed with an ACK packet, it can happen that your upload is completely clogged with ACK sends, leaving no room for your FFXIV client's packets telling server what you are doing.

So you can at least ease the lag to some amount if you (and other people at your place) stop down/uploading stuff while you're playing. Don't forget that opening a page with a lot of content (images, gifs) counts as much as streaming a video stream, especially with the "continuous load" most image sites employ nowadays.

Just speaking from an experience some FC mates an I had. Sounds exactly like what the OP was talking about. I was sharing something that sounded related that came from the Devs themselves. I'm not privy to what ISP they used and what they switched to but for whatever reason, that switch cleared up all the lag issues they had. They had the rubber banding, the freezing, the screen lock, etc.

I'm only trying to offer solutions that might help someone out. Please dont shoot the messenger. If my thread helps even one person, then I feel it was worth it.