Massive Massive Lag - Midgardsormr and instance server

[Pyromanci]

The servers are lagging massively. I have seen the receive lag spike as high as 15sec. While the transmit is never over 300ms. I have even relogged with no affect. Other have reported it too in both shout and Free Company.

This needs to be fixed.

[Zeila]

Same thing on Exodus, hard to do instances.

[Vech]

Gilgamesh reporting in. Was helping my FC on Titan and never have experienced such lag as I did. Leaders decided to call it until the lag subsides. Almost every party member was experiencing it.

[Kanadiana]

Same thing on Excalibur, Titan is completely undoable and Castrum is lagging as well.

[GigEdict]

Ultros here, went to do AK this morning and nnnnnnope! Couldn't even tank the first boss due to varying lagspikes spanning up to TEN SECONDS before resuming. Just tried again and even crafting drops packets like mad. More than 30Mb down and a very respectable ping to everything else but FFXIV servers.

Only started having this problem today, besides the standard delays we're used to with stuff like healing, this is the only latency issue I've had with this game after more than a week playing.

[Pines]

Experiencing the same issues on Leviathan.

[redisdrunk]

Ragnarok is getting hammered by lag spikes as well.

[Raist]

Tracing route to 199.91.189.74 over a maximum of 30 hops

<initial hops removed for security>
4 24 ms 24 ms 23 ms xe-7-0-0.chrlncpop-rtr1.southeast.rr.com [24.93.64.42]
5 31 ms 30 ms 38 ms bu-ether14.atlngamq46w-bcr00.tbone.rr.com [66.109.6.82]
6 28 ms 30 ms 27 ms ae-0-0.pr0.atl20.tbone.rr.com [66.109.6.171]
7 81 ms 78 ms 83 ms te0-0-0-10.ccr21.atl02.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.12.109]
8 82 ms 81 ms 81 ms be2050.ccr21.atl01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.0.165]
9 90 ms 90 ms 91 ms te0-3-0-2.ccr21.dca01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.2.46]
10 97 ms 97 ms 97 ms te0-7-0-14.ccr21.jfk02.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.41.6]
11 * * * Request timed out.
12 68 ms 69 ms 79 ms 38.122.42.34
13 71 ms 68 ms 69 ms 10.2.2.1
14 104 ms 70 ms 68 ms 192.34.76.2
15 70 ms 68 ms 70 ms 199.91.189.234
16 68 ms 69 ms 72 ms 199.91.189.74

Trace complete.

Deja Vu.

Looks like a similar issue as when it got flakey over the weekend. Different IP's, but the same groups appear to be in play. Coming across the border, over near Washington, cutting across British Columbia and BAM---full time out and retry. Good old Cogent Communications / PSINet seems to be dropping the ball again.

http://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-154-54-0-0-1/pft
http://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-38-0-0-0-1/pft

Edit:Looking at it more closely, after the 4th trace I ran, the BC finally starting responding on all three pings again, but then the JFK02 started acting up, dropping at least one ping the next 3 runs. The ones that get through at that BC hop though are breaking the 130ms line, then it drops immediately back to the 70's for the rest of the run.

Consistently seems to be something unstable about crossing the border or cutting across to Montreal.

[Pyromanci]

and this is why you don't put game servers in Canada.

[Mirania]

Same thing on Leviathan