Crazy Unprecidented Latency

[Mira_Dawn]

The sending/receiving isn't ping. It's data sent and received, which is why during large fates you'll get upwards of 15k receiving.

That's interesting, but I'm still experiencing heavy lag either way.

That's actually not an FFXIV server---it's a webserver that hosts pages about games in the EIDOS group as well as some Square-Enix pages. Ping www.eidos.com and you'll get the same IP--this works also for several of their games websites as well (www.justcause.com, www.heroesofruin.com, etc.).

Ah, thanks for the correction the website I checked was incorrect, I pinged the actual servers and still had the same results. Obviously it's not the same thing as running an MMO but it shouldn't be so drastically different.

I'd hazard a guess you are being affected by the flaky exchanges along the US west coast corridors. Or, it could simply be issues with the Telstra undersea pipeline again, who knows.

Unlikely since every other online game that connects to the US works just fine (200ms~) including TERA and DOTA 2. I'm fairly certain that this is specific to FFXIV.