Unusual Lag Spikes?

[Kalsoa]

Yup, getting mad lag spikes since yesterday. Comcast here as well, Pittsburgh.

[Rhodkr]

I've been getting lag spikes since yesterday along with other people in my FC. We all have Comcast, so its pretty much confirmed.

[Zumi]

Comcast here getting lag.

Sargatanas about 10% packet loss on the final hop.

[szalkerous]

Comcast here, Southern NH. Just failed a dungeon 4 times because the lag was so bad the spikes make the game unplayable.

8% packet loss reported to Excalibur server.

All other internet services working fine. Able to stream HD video and browse without any problems.

[pushin_tin]

Unplayable lag, FL, Mediacom. Every other online game I play is fine. So much for getting anything done today before the reset.

[NorthernLadMSP]

I almost never get lag, but tonight it's been so bad my raid group had to call it a night after like 15 minutes.

[SpiritTamer]

I am in Georgia and also use Comcast. There was no lag earlier, but I logged in tonight and was lagging a bit while doing dungeons and gathering.

[Raist]

Ping statistics for 199.91.189.39:
Packets: Sent = 182, Received = 168, Lost = 14 (7% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 93ms, Maximum = 109ms, Average = 95ms

Here is the report pining to Famfrit.

Are you sure that is the IP you are now using? I don't mean looking it up at ARR Status either---those haven't been entirely accurate for well over a year now. Have you looked up what IP you are using when fully logged into the game (with something like resmon or netstat)?

Reason I ask is we have seen a lot of people got switched to IP's above 100 when they broke out the new EU location. Those older lower IP's may not be actually hosting world services now.

Edit: Looks like 199.91.189.39 may not be running world service anymore. It is still responding to pings when things are down for the patch--should be timing out when the worlds are taken down. Did catch a hop in the Newark area that is going AWOL atm though when pinging around just now. So, looks like more of the usual infrastructure crud we've wrangled with for nigh on 20 years now.

[Cyrusskorrey]

Comcast Indiana east chicago, ive been having lag and connection issues since patch 3.1 went live.

[Dotsusama]

I've had this problem since Friday. I have Comcast too, and I'm in Chicago, and as soon as it leaves the city and hits the Level3 point (hop 4) I get "request timed out". Lost packets all over, 2 second delays. It made even chocobo racing a rubber-banding nightmare.

Tonight I had the same issues, so I installed VyprVPN on a recommendation for alternatives to WTFast. I first tried NY's server but while I got better packet reception the ping was not much better. Picking the Canada server (in Toronto) and my experience smoothed out substantially. I'm going to have to see how it looks after maintenance, but unless S-E harasses Level3 for whatever is causing this traffic jam, I doubt anything will improve.

EDIT: also to anyone who wants to tracert to Excalibur the IP I used as a reference point is 199.91.189.35