Lag?

[TaleraRistain]

I've noticed there always seems to be more instances of lag in the week leading up to a patch and the week after it, then it smooths out. I'm with AT&T and have had that happen in the past. I'm not experiencing it this time but I've definitely heard others talking about it.

[Delkfutt]

I feel as if FFXIV has had problems with DNS services with particular ISPs in the past. Anyways, I downloaded Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 for PC (free) and it fixed my lag issue. https://1.1.1.1/

[ICountFrom0]

Lag? As in where..? NA, JP, EU? We're not all Americans. Being on Chaos datacenter myself I've not noticed anything out of the ordinary.

Thank you, that narrows things down.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

I've noticed there always seems to be more instances of lag in the week leading up to a patch and the week after it, then it smooths out. I'm with AT&T and have had that happen in the past. I'm not experiencing it this time but I've definitely heard others talking about it.

Its 100% coincidence that you've noticed it near a patch. Unfortunately, ISPs in NA have 0 incentive to have reliable networks with alternate routes. If it works for browsing the internet and watching youtube, most of their customers are happy and why go above and beyond that.

XIV hates packet loss. You drop a packet and the game DC's. Websites and video streaming don't care. Some games have refresh times coded in, but XIV doesn't seem to. But then, on the other hand, we don't have to deal with buggy, intrusive anti-cheat systems so...

[Rinhi]

right around the time this thread was made there was a huge lagspike for me as well and I'm not american, so I highly doubt it was tied to US ISPs and more likely a server hiccup on SE's end that didn't affect everyone

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

right around the time this thread was made there was a huge lagspike for me as well and I'm not american, so I highly doubt it was tied to US ISPs and more likely a server hiccup on SE's end that didn't affect everyone

Internet is NOT point to point. It goes through many hops. If your connection routes through the hop that was having the issue, you get lag.

What country you are from doesn't matter. How traffic gets routed does.



What you just said is the equivalent of saying "yeah, there was a traffic jam in Texas, and I'm heading to California along the southern US, but since I'm from Brazil, it doesn't effect me. It must be California's fault"

[MoofiaBossVal]

I have Spectrum and I've been getting some pretty bad lag spikes over the past week.

[Rinhi]

Internet is NOT point to point. It goes through many hops. If your connection routes through the hop that was having the issue, you get lag.

What country you are from doesn't matter. How traffic gets routed does.



What you just said is the equivalent of saying "yeah, there was a traffic jam in Texas, and I'm heading to California along the southern US, but since I'm from Brazil, it doesn't effect me. It must be California's fault"

no, I'm said that it wasn't exclusively a comcast thing as people thought it was at the beginning of the thread and also never not once said that the issue is on SE's end, just that it was likely, as it was before
but go off queen!

[Sotaris]

Is anybody else having a noticeably worse connection today?

That a no from me.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

no, I'm said that it wasn't exclusively a comcast thing as people thought it was at the beginning of the thread and also never not once said that the issue is on SE's end, just that it was likely, as it was before
but go off queen!

It can be a comcast issue even for people who dont have comcast as their ISP, if their ISP uses comcasts lines at some point. Not all ISPs own the full length of their connections, and even then, they have to connect outside the ISP at some point. This is likely where the bad node is, which is why it effects people not on comcast, and people who have comcast.

And yes, you did in fact say "its most likely an issue on SE's servers that didn't effect everyone"

I'm simply trying to correct misconceptions on how people connect to things over the internet, as many don't seem to understand how it all works, and SE takes the brunt of the blame for things completely out of their control most of the time.

Very very few instances exist these days where the servers themselves are the issue, and we get updates on those when they happen via the lodestone.