Verzion lag issue is still in the building (probably)

[Raist]

199.91.189.57 is no longer serving a world...hasn't been since the infrastructure changes made back in March/April. Not the first time they've changed up our IP's. May want to check the IP your client uses by loading resource monitor (resmon.exe from search/run box) after you logged fully into the game, or using one of the neolobby addresses instead:

neolobby02.ffxiv.com (this is the registered DNS name for Aether)
neolobby04.ffxiv.com
neolobby06.ffxiv.com

If you were to forward that .57 IP to your ISP to use for an investigation, they won't get any responses from that address...which will not help your case much.

As for the tracert... it is interesting that (once again) we are seeing a hop going into full ICMP rejection right at the hand off from Verizon into TATA. We continually see this happening at their peering exchanges (despite what they tell people, it is NOT that common a thing unless there is a problem with high utilization)....more of the same-old stuff we've seen in the past. Begs the question of whether they STILL have not upgraded the bandwidth at their border routers. (that link is to an interesting blog post demonstrating Verizon's refusal to make such upgrades that were obviously needed)