Bad lag again with NTT's NA server network

[ArcadiaP]

Give Mudfish a try. It's an item based VPN. Don't enable WFP mode. Cheap, $3 will last you all year, most likely.

[Monochii]

Around 14:30 Monterey CA time:

Hey all, can confirm issues are not resolve here a well with packet loss across the board on the NTT server nodes leading to the final node dropping packets again.

Quoting one the post from late night just to bring back up that something clearly was switched that "fixed" the connection issues. Now that we are back a peak hrs, the servers are struggling again. There is no freaking way that enough people all at once decided to log out during peak and cause the connection to be stable all night. Not with a drop like seen above.

Even with the connection being stable without packet loss, there is still in my opinion an uncomfortably amount of packet loss starting at the San Jose and Sacramento NTT nodes. As far as I understand though that doesn't matter as long as the final destination isn't dropping packets.

I'd recommend to keep sending tracert reports via the form provided to use here. May want to do in-game bug reports as well: https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...a451d5a8daa66f

Also keep updating the forum of your ongoing issues and even if possible make its known on socials that the issues are still happening. At this point its is very clear this is an issue with the servers.

[gameofscones]

Yeah, it's back to being a mess:

  5     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  6    18 ms    20 ms    14 ms  32.130.17.75
  7    17 ms    14 ms    22 ms  cgcil402igs.ip.att.net [12.122.133.161]
  8    13 ms    15 ms    14 ms  192.205.32.194
  9    14 ms    14 ms    14 ms  ae-4.r23.chcgil09.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.4.239]
 10    60 ms    61 ms    60 ms  ae-1.r24.snjsca04.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.5.17]
 11   124 ms   112 ms     *     ae-4.a00.scrmca03.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.7.57]
 12   117 ms   107 ms   116 ms  xe-0-0-5-0.a00.scrmca03.us.ce.gin.ntt.net [128.241.2.18]
 13     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 14   115 ms   116 ms   115 ms  204.2.29.6

Trace complete.

How frustrating.

[KosKazuya]

Another day, more lag. Still experiencing extreme lag with AT&T and now my workaround, using my Verizon mobile hot-spot, is experiencing the same latency issues.

[SKhyron]

Kansas AT&T user here. Been having the same horrible lag in FF14 as the rest of you, 5/16/23 was the first time I noticed it. I'm on PS5, tried the 1.1.1.1 DNS entry which didn't help, but last night, 5/26/23 during the evening peak hours was the first time I was pretty much lag free all night. I haven't tried yet again today, just wanted to share my experience. I'm still using 1.1.1.1 though, in case that's a piece of the puzzle. Thanks

[KuroEmiya]

Back to lag, it was nice while it lasted.

[Lahtori]

3 5 ms 3 ms 3 ms 71.155.29.140
4 * * * Request timed out.
5 11 ms 7 ms 7 ms 32.130.25.65
6 8 ms 4 ms 7 ms ae-5.a00.dllstx14.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.8.237]
7 * * * Request timed out.
8 * * * Request timed out.
9 92 ms 94 ms 89 ms ae-5.a01.scrmca03.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.2.7]
10 106 ms 93 ms 91 ms ae-1.a00.scrmca03.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.4.76]
11 * * 95 ms xe-0-0-5-0.a00.scrmca03.us.ce.gin.ntt.net [128.241.2.18]
12 * * 90 ms 204.2.29.241
13 92 ms 92 ms 91 ms 204.2.29.6

Day 13 folks! They saw us rejoice at the lack of latency issues yesterday evening and said "no thank you".

[Rekts]

Kansas AT&T user here. Been having the same horrible lag in FF14 as the rest of you, 5/16/23 was the first time I noticed it. I'm on PS5, tried the 1.1.1.1 DNS entry which didn't help, but last night, 5/26/23 during the evening peak hours was the first time I was pretty much lag free all night. I haven't tried yet again today, just wanted to share my experience. I'm still using 1.1.1.1 though, in case that's a piece of the puzzle. Thanks

Last night for whatever reason the connection was stable for everyone. Today it's back to the same old lag we've been getting for 2 weeks. And it's a holiday weekend so I doubt we'll get any improvement even if they were attempting to fix it last night.

[Kwehvehpeh]

My VPN doesn't even help anymore... ugh

Yeah. It seems the issue is now leaking into Nord VPN as well. It must be really bad.

[rainhadar]

I have been having major issues like the rest of us on at&t and have submitted tickets, called at&t and tried to get things resolved and we all know how that went. I gave up and went with a vpn (PIA) and it was working much better with the vpn with the different locations in previous postings. This afternoon, however, even with the VPN I am now having the same issues that I had without it. I will keep changing locations but I am now getting disconnects in game and huge lag spikes worse than ever. I have a feeling it is because of the weekend more people are on game but it is now unplayable with a vpn which i had to pay for on top of the game monthly subscription. Not sure what to try and about to give up on playing ffxiv as it does not seem like it is going to be fixed anytime soon. This is unacceptable but here we are.