All the lag, network issues are server side [CONFIRMED]

[Vektrat]

Take that you white knight "gurus" of supposed throttling knowledge.
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ALL OF THE ISSUES DESCRIBED.

So you just read a Wikipedia article and suddenly promote up to the top of networking gurus...

However, I'm sorry to tell you, you are as wrong as you could be.

1. There IS throttling issues by ISP (I don't know why you're assuming only one problem can exist, maybe you don't have this issue, but many people is suffering from that - fortunately not me)
2. The biggest problems at the moment are from game design (from, mostly, a networking point of view)
3. Server congestion will deteriorate quality of service, yes, this is probably happening right now, could be, but I doubt so, and if it is happening, it is heavily eclipsed by the other issues

[Appleh4x]

So you just read a Wikipedia article and suddenly promote up to the top of networking gurus...

However, I'm sorry to tell you, you are as wrong as you could be.

1. There IS throttling issues by ISP (I don't know why you're assuming only one problem can exist, maybe you don't have this issue, but many people is suffering from that - fortunately not me)
2. The biggest problems at the moment are from game design (from, mostly, a networking point of view)
3. Server congestion will deteriorate quality of service, yes, this is probably happening right now, could be, but I doubt so, and if it is happening, it is heavily eclipsed by the other issues

I never claimed to be any sort of guru, I'm actually just pointing out the most obvious reason to an issue. SE says their servers are congested and that is why people can't log on. What is another side effect of congestion? Lag.

[Vektrat]

You can read servers being congested in two manners

1. First: More technical, network/server congestion, when you're talking about an issue/problem
2. Second: The literal, and most known, direct English meaning of the word: full

Now if you're around engineers and are having network issues, you'll probably be using the term congestion.

If you're a business running a service for a bunch of users with no technical knowledge, I doubt you'll be using technical slang, thus I believe the use of the word "congested" goes as a synonym of "full", without need of it to being related to network issues; which I suppose is what they're doing.

Honestly, even if their servers suck, I don't see a company going "HEY OUR SERVERS ARE SO LAGGY RIGHT NOW YOU BETTER STAY AT THE DOOR", not the best marketing approach.

Googling "server congestion" and clicking on the first link (Network congestion) can mislead you to confuse technical slang with a more plain meaning of the word: "The servers are full."

Now, if they don't let you login because the servers are full, they're doing this because if they allowed more people, the servers would be way over their capabilities and then real network congestion issues would start (such as lagspikes).

[Mishayangg]

My ping is fine in the morning, bad in the evening. Yes, it is due to the amount of ppl logged into the servers. Increase capacity SE and do it now!

[Pronsolo]

Not sure if this is an elaborate troll or if.........Im gonna assume a troll lol

[Ganglia]

I lag during most of the day but periodically the rubber banding becomes intolerable in even fate play. I've got no throttling and in tracert I can see the issues in lag are definitely occurring once I reach Montreal. I live in California and all things are good from there to New York. No jitter, no packet loss, no significant latency...77ms to NY and that is consistent.

Obviously hard modes are fruitless for me. I can do Garuda and Ifrit because I know the fights well enough to move where I need and do what I need to heal folks. But Titan is out of the question.

I am going to set my account pay from quarterly to monthly and then stop it completely if it is still an issue by the end of this month.