Here's what's actually happening.

[ArkNova]

Mog Station will be selling stable connections please look forward to it.

[Ametrine]

Wow, at least we know it's not SE's fault....

[Rune_Crystalblade]

Well I hate to wreck anyone's illusion here, but...

Level 3 isn't the problem. I work for an ISP that works very closely with level 3, and I just called their NOC to find out wtf is up with that report...

Apparently Level3 filters some of the probe traffic from "Internetpulse.net" because it probes with stupid frequency which is why it reports Packet loss... So if there's packet loss on level3's end, even they can't detect it so... Believe what you want, but that's not it.

[DSN]

This. There's no "server stability issues" or anything on SE's end. The last few outages have been due to Level3, so go thank them.

so their lack of a second peering partner is my fault or level 3s fault as well? I think not.

[RakaMaimhov]

This thread didn't actually explain what is actually happening. I'm very disappoint.

[DSN]

Well I hate to wreck anyone's illusion here, but...

Level 3 isn't the problem. I work for an ISP that works very closely with level 3, and I just called their NOC to find out wtf is up with that report...

Apparently Level3 filters some of the probe traffic from "Internetpulse.net" because it probes with stupid frequency which is why it reports Packet loss... So if there's packet loss on level3's end, even they can't detect it so... Believe what you want, but that's not it.

Also It is not uncommon for edge routers to filter ICMP to a lower priority in which the router will just not respond if there is any load present for reasons such as listed above.

[Arioche]

Well I hate to wreck anyone's illusion here, but...

Level 3 isn't the problem. I work for an ISP that works very closely with level 3, and I just called their NOC to find out wtf is up with that report...

Apparently Level3 filters some of the probe traffic from "Internetpulse.net" because it probes with stupid frequency which is why it reports Packet loss... So if there's packet loss on level3's end, even they can't detect it so... Believe what you want, but that's not it.

It's clearly detectable via other means. You can use pathping yourself if you wanted too, which can sometimes filter the initial ping, but will still show the packet loss correctly. Try it yourself, pathping to SE's servers when it's running fine and you will see 0% loss on Level3. When this happens again, run the test and it will be anywhere from 50-100%.

[Peachy]

I guess you guys missed the memo

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...6a182466ea4be0

good ole high traffic. no conspiracy here, always happens during NA primetime.

[papichulo123]

seriously what is happening??????????? what in the blazes is ddos??????

[Squintina]

Well I hate to wreck anyone's illusion here, but...

Level 3 isn't the problem. I work for an ISP that works very closely with level 3, and I just called their NOC to find out wtf is up with that report...

Apparently Level3 filters some of the probe traffic from "Internetpulse.net" because it probes with stupid frequency which is why it reports Packet loss... So if there's packet loss on level3's end, even they can't detect it so... Believe what you want, but that's not it.

Pathpings show issues with Level 3.
Unfortunately for me it's not just for FF14. A client I work for is unable to reach their FTP server because the connection is also getting lost once it reaches a Level 3 hop.