Horrible lag on Balmung the past two evenings.

[Raist]

Going with just the snippet provided it could be an issue with a VLAN again...TWC suspected the same over a year or so back when we were tracking things down. They contacted Ormuco about it and it cleared a couple days later and never saw it come back and I used that same IP for about a year.

Double check there aren't signs of issues in the section of the route you omitted. An issue at hop 3 can show up again at hop 12 and then again at hop 17. The trace is checking each hop in order with each separate ping, so you sort of have to go down the line verifying/correcting the first sign, then the next in the list, and so forth.

Everyone may want to double check the IP you are testing as well. Things got mixed up again with the Chaos move. I used .30 almost exclusively for Migard the last year or more, but am now on .148.

If unsure, you can use the DNS names for the lobbies. Aether is neolobby02.ffxiv.com, Primal is neolobby04.ffxiv.com, and Chaos is neolobby06.ffxiv.com.

[Gyson]

Going with just the snippet provided it could be an issue with a VLAN again...TWC suspected the same over a year or so back when we were tracking things down. They contacted Ormuco about it and it cleared a couple days later and never saw it come back and I used that same IP for about a year.

Double check there aren't signs of issues in the section of the route you omitted. An issue at hop 3 can show up again at hop 12 and then again at hop 17. The trace is checking each hop in order with each separate ping, so you sort of have to go down the line verifying/correcting the first sign, then the next in the list, and so forth.

Everyone may want to double check the IP you are testing as well. Things got mixed up again with the Chaos move. I used .30 almost exclusively for Migard the last year or more, but am now on .148.

If unsure, you can use the DNS names for the lobbies. Aether is neolobby02.ffxiv.com, Primal is neolobby04.ffxiv.com, and Chaos is neolobby06.ffxiv.com.

The hops (1-12) prior to the ones listed in the original post are all in the 10-20 ms range and showed no issues throughout the repeated trace tests that I ran.

Also, as far as I've been able to tell, it gets worse during North America prime-time (evening) hours.

"neolobby02.ffxiv.com" (Aether) is taking the same route as the IP I'm using for Balmung, save for a difference in the last hop (199.91.189.74 vs 199.91.189.30). Having said that, in either case the problem never seems to show up on the last hop, but rather the three hops prior to it.