Lag only in FF14, no where else on the Internet.

[Raist]

Could just be more of the typical peering exchange issues we have been seeing off and on for years. For the most part Cogent and TATA have been holding up somewhat decent through most of the Montreal area, but been seeing more of the usual flakiness coming around Toronto and into Montreal. Level3 has had their usual suspects (their car2 segments act up almost weekly it seems) and the alter.net (Verizon) and the old TiNet/SPA segments have been bogging down as well.

There is just so much traffic in/around the north east that it is getting harder and harder to get around the congestion. You would think with the absurd prices some of these guys charge for bandwidth ($40/a month for basic plans of 15mb or less) that they could afford to hook up some more 10gb ports at their exchange points. Not expecting a full scale fiber rollout...just fix their sh!t so it can handle the bandwidth they are selling us.

[GunsBlazing]

Could just be more of the typical peering exchange issues we have been seeing off and on for years. For the most part Cogent and TATA have been holding up somewhat decent through most of the Montreal area, but been seeing more of the usual flakiness coming around Toronto and into Montreal. Level3 has had their usual suspects (their car2 segments act up almost weekly it seems) and the alter.net (Verizon) and the old TiNet/SPA segments have been bogging down as well.

There is just so much traffic in/around the north east that it is getting harder and harder to get around the congestion. You would think with the absurd prices some of these guys charge for bandwidth ($40/a month for basic plans of 15mb or less) that they could afford to hook up some more 10gb ports at their exchange points. Not expecting a full scale fiber rollout...just fix their sh!t so it can handle the bandwidth they are selling us.

You'd certainly think so... I live 15 miles out in the country, so i have to utilize wireless internet for my daily net-surfing and netflix-binging needs, and it costs me $100 a month for 6mbps. I use my phone's 4g hotspot for FFXIV, cuz it has a latency of about 40 whereas the wireless connection i use is around 120-200ms. I think the only thing worse than America's school system is our infrastructure. I don't have a whole lot of faith that Project Loon is going to be the savior for our bandwidth crisis, but it could certainly pioneer a new frontier that could help free up the congestion. It won't be ideal for gaming, but it could certainly meet the needs for the casual internet user and probably even those who just use it for things like netflix, where bandwidth > latency. It frees up the ground infrastructure for us gamers.

Now, i'm sure you already know about it given the fact that you seem quite knowledgable about the topic, OP (much moreso than i am, not even sure if it's a suitable solution for you)... But WTFast is free now, and it has really saved at least one of my raid static members connection. He had horrible lag until he finally tried it. May be worth looking into if you haven't already.