Quote Originally Posted by Xenor View Post
Sometimes lag is self inflicted. I had an Ifrit extreme fight last week where I was hitting everything Ifrit threw out even though it looked like I was out. Turns out the photos I was uploading to Facebook were killing my connection. Got rid of that after the first wipe and had no issues. I've no idea why it had such a large effect, my connection is around 10mb.

Point is be aware of background programs/web tabs.
As far as MMOs go, I'm pretty sure FFXIV uses a lot more bandwidth than others. My reason for saying this is because I have been playing MMOs for 10+ years. I am close to the NA datacenter (an 8 hour drive, my ping is ~50)... yet when I first tried Titan, I couldn't dodge anything. Even landslides were getting me. I never had this issue with other MMOs. Upgrading my ISP package to 50 mbps down fixed all of my problems. Now I rarely get hit by anything. I don't think you need 50 mbps down to dodge things -- that was just the next level of upgrade for me. The reason I mention this is because you said uploading photos was causing you to lag... yeah, that's eating up your bandwidth. I bet another MMO would not be affected that way. I hope SE eventually optimizes its bandwidth use as not every person is going to pay for the best of the best internet to play this game. Ping is just one issue as far as lag is concerned.