Sudden lag spikes and DCs on NA Data Centers?

[HyoMinPark]

I checked another game, as I said in the other thread, and that seemed to be working just fine for me. I think this is localized to just Final Fantasy XIV.

When you connect to the other game's servers, do you route through Level 3 at all? I'm curious.
Every time this happens, it's usually because Level 3 is going down, whether from a cut wire or a DDoS or whatever, it always seems to point to them.

[Tharian]

When you connect to the other game's servers, do you route through Level 3 at all? I'm curious.
Every time this happens, it's usually because Level 3 is going down, whether from a cut wire or a DDoS or whatever, it always seems to point to them.

I am not sure what that means... as I am not particularly technically inclined, sorry.

[DarkDepravity]

I am not sure what that means... as I am not particularly technically inclined, sorry.

level 3 is a major internet backbone infrastructure provider, that has had some challenges, and a lot of traffic goes through them, whilst some do not, so if they are the culprit again, those who see their traffic routed through them have problems, while others who do not can be just fine. it's like having issues on one road, the city is still there and fine, but the route you want to take is, for lack of a better term, "wrecked"

[Tharian]

level 3 is a major internet backbone infrastructure provider, that has had some challenges, and a lot of traffic goes through them, whilst some do not, so if they are the culprit again, those who see their traffic routed through them have problems, while others who do not can be just fine. it's like having issues on one road, the city is still there and fine, but the route you want to take is, for lack of a better term, "wrecked"

Ah... well I wouldn't really know how to check that for the game as I play on PS4, and have no idea how to check something like that on the PS4

[HyoMinPark]

Ah... well I wouldn't really know how to check that for the game as I play on PS4, and have no idea how to check something like that on the PS4

You can't really check it on the PS4, no. BUT...! If you have a PC, you can still check on there, since your IP address will be the same for your PC and PS4, given that they are on the same network. You don't have to have the game installed or anything to check.
You can open your Command Prompt, and type "tracert [server IP address]" and follow the traceroute from there.
You can find server IPs on this website. Just hit "Display IP" to see the IP addresses for each server.

Just some fun information in case you want to try it some time. :3

For your other game, I'm not sure where you would obtain the server IPs from, however. :x Unless they have a website similar to ARR Server Status.

[Tharian]

You can't really check it on the PS4, no. BUT...! If you have a PC, you can still check on there, since your IP address will be the same for your PC and PS4, given that they are on the same network. You don't have to have the game installed or anything to check.
You can open your Command Prompt, and type "tracert [server IP address]" and follow the traceroute from there.
You can find server IPs on this website. Just hit "Display IP" to see the IP addresses for each server.

Just some fun information in case you want to try it some time. :3

For your other game, I'm not sure where you would obtain the server IPs from, however. :x Unless they have a website similar to ARR Server Status.

this is odd, every time I try to hit the Tracert command like you said, I get the following notification:

"Unable to resolve target system name [Server IP Address]."

where I replace [Server IP Address] with the IP Address for the Server in question.

Oh I got it working now

[HyoMinPark]

"Unable to resolve target system name [Server IP Address].".

Hmm. You're typing it in like such (with no quotations): "tracert 199.91.189.33" ?

EDIT: Oh, I see you got it working. X3

It looks like it's PC players mostly from what my FC was saying.

I don't think it's limited to just PC players; I think there's a couple PS4 players also having issues.

[Cowboyoftexas]

Im on Balmung and everyone is lagging out all over the server and many are being disconnected the problem started around 1:00 central time

[Dragoon130]

I can't even log onto Gilgamesh, I'll spawn in and within 30 seconds start to disconnect me. Titanfall 2 and Smite are both stable however.

[StayKruel]

Tried logging into Behemoth, was just getting DCed after 5-10 min, including in the beginning of a POTD. Now it just says lobby error over and over and closes the entire game.