SICK OF THE LAG FEST

[Alexika]

I don't know why people assume you cannot find a fix for console. I have.

How about you tell us what this fix is...

[Gyson]

I'm having problems with the quality of my FFXIV connection in the evenings as well. Tonight I'm having especially horrible lag, which has been going on for several hours in FFXIV. People are warping around like crazy. It takes several seconds for a teleport request to actually initiate. Even showing/hiding my helm takes several seconds for the server to respond. Other people in my FC are reporting the same issue, although not everyone.

I did a ping to my server's IP this evening during that mess and saw a fairly consistent 25%-75% packet loss. A trace shows several timeouts within a handful of hops to the server. There doesn't seem to be anything I can do about it on my end to clear it up.

Ping statistics for 199.91.189.30:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 1, Lost = 3 (75% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 72ms, Maximum = 72ms, Average = 72ms

Where the trouble seems to start:

11 26 ms 23 ms 23 ms 12.122.117.121
12 * * * Request timed out.
13 165 ms 238 ms 239 ms ae-11-11.car2.Montreal2.Level3.net [4.69.141.1]

14 261 ms 135 ms 249 ms ae-11-11.car2.Montreal2.Level3.net [4.69.141.1]

15 51 ms 51 ms 51 ms ORMUCO-COMM.car2.Montreal2.Level3.net [4.59.178.
74]
16 111 ms 88 ms 71 ms 192.34.76.10
17 72 ms 72 ms 71 ms 199.91.189.242
18 72 ms 72 ms * 199.91.189.30
19 71 ms * 71 ms 199.91.189.30

[TeaTimeBear]

How about you tell us what this fix is...

Sure.

What you'll need is a:

Computer or Laptop
VPN service
Ethernet cord
A router to direct the traffic (I'm using a plain old default actiontec MI424WR)
The ability to host a VPN server with a VPN service or on your own via a router alternatively.

What I do is use my Ethernet cord and connect my ps4 to my iMac. From there under setting PPTP I manually connect to my VPN and direct all traffic through it. And that's basically it.

[Bentozzi]

As european player I have 300+ latency on Moogle server. Also checked ping on NA realms - 40ms+. Seriously playing on eu servers is a joke, really fun to dodge enemies aoe...

[Vahlnir]

Diabolos server and PS4 user here. Started getting spikes on or around June 28th, not long after a hotfix patch. It wasn't just during peak hours. It was all day, every day. People would stop and go on my screen, and the lag made playing most, if not all content, nearly impossible to play. It randomly stopped a week or so later, and I was fine until this evening when it started up again. Most of my FC has had the same problems, though they didn't get the break I did. I also know another person who's in the same boat. I also made a character on Exodus server, on which I had zero lag or the stop and go problem while playing. Resetting my router and modem did nothing, nor did reinstalling the game. My internet connection is spotless with everything else but XIV. Just to be clear, I have confirmed as much. Up until this issue arose XIV ran smoothly, and lag was almost nonexistent. Even before I upgraded from the PS3 version, which I started with at 2.0 launch, I didn't have this problem, except if there were a lot of other players in the area.

[DarkkenMoneybags]

According to some people I have spoken to in-game. Are all saying "Aether Data Center" is bugged and needs repair. When Balmung & Gilgamesh get over-maximum in players per world. It starts lag players in other worlds not your ISP. These problems always happen around major patches or some special content. SE knows the problem and they will do a temp. fix that ACTUALLY WORKS in fixing problems. Once they claim the solution been fix, we all return to LAGFEST. If we can get enough documents from players on Aether Data Center or Piggy backing data from the center. I honestly don't know what other way for the community to do other than we speak up on all of SE's social media outlets Twitter, FB, the forums, email tech. support, etc. On the issues then just speaking on the forums.

[Alexika]

Sure.

What you'll need is a:

Computer or Laptop
VPN service
Ethernet cord
A router to direct the traffic (I'm using a plain old default actiontec MI424WR)
The ability to host a VPN server with a VPN service or on your own via a router alternatively.

What I do is use my Ethernet cord and connect my ps4 to my iMac. From there under setting PPTP I manually connect to my VPN and direct all traffic through it. And that's basically it.

I have tried this and cannot get it to work, so expand on this setup please.

[Raist]

Aether lobby service is only used at your initial login...then you get transferred to your world service. Watch the connections through the process... you'll connect to .74 only while selecting your character, once your data is gathered and forwarded to your world service the connection to neolobby02.ffxiv.com (199.91.189.74) goes idle and then is dropped.

In the case of the heavily populated worlds there could be an issue with the load for those particular worlds---but that is because there are too many people trying to get on it at the same time more than anything else. That is more a player driven problem--the people who insist on getting on to a known overloaded server should expect such issues.

I am on Midgard...Aether lobby...far from being overloaded like Balmung and Gilgamesh are, and I can't remember for certain the last time it was for sure an issue on SE's side. At least since the first of the year (after a lot of infrastructure changes by SE and Ormuco, and working extensively with TWC-SC on discovered issues at our CMTS, local gateways, and their routing partners), every time there has been any issues with latency or connection loss it has been traced directly to either something with Time Warner or their routing partner. If it doesn't get resolved quickly on it's own, I contact them and it is usually addressed either that night or over the next 72 hours (weekend delays and such). Usually what happens is I get switched to another routing partner after a modem reboot. SE is never contacted...they don't do anything to resolve it---it is all on my ISP's Tier3 team.

The routing problems are well documented and known to be causing these kinds of problems for various services worldwide, and must be flushed out--no matter how good things may be on SE's end, something flaky locally or out in the wild can knacker you up--and there is nothing SE can do about that.

[Alexika]

FiOS still refusing to do anything. About to get kicked from my raid group because of this.

[TeaTimeBear]

I have tried this and cannot get it to work, so expand on this setup please.

I can't expand it any more than that because that's all I do. I log in through a VPN service (Vypr) via PPTP manual set up and connect. I've done this with more than one VPN service and it works for me. I don't have a special router just a regular fios router. It won't work if you don't have a VPN service set up and by that I mean paid service. I'm sure someone has found a way to tunnel to the console for free but you'll likely still end up paying money for a router that can specifically tunnel and allow one to host from their house.