Hi Guys,

I am posting this from the ISP Throttling main thread. The original post is NOT my own. I hope the original poster doesn't mind me quoting it:

Quote Originally Posted by Asuka-Hykiri View Post
Hey guys, a few of us at Plusnet in the UK have identified that there is defiantly a throttling issue on our side. Running wiresharks we have found that our Ellacoya traffic management system is picking up the connections as Peer-to-Peer usage due to how the launcher operates to download updates ect. We have passed this internally to our network team who are dealing with it.

For others that think this is an issue, you can easily determine if it is incorrect throttling by running a wireshark capture.

If you see the IP of 199.91.189.74 or similar numbers, the priority will show as (Differentiated Services Field: 0x00) which is basically the lowest priority.

Me and a few others have asked our networks team to get this amended again as we had corrected the system for the original V1 release but appears to have returned as the servers will have changed.

If SE can confirm if all IPs from 199.91.189.XXX are from the FFXIV servers (or the static IP range that the servers use) it may help us to contact our ISPs and ask them to re-adjust the traffic management systems.

If you need any more info please let me know.
I have just used this method and it has helped me to KNOW that the issue is with an ISP throttling me rather than SE's server's per se. Sure, the issue is something SE would need to resolve by contacting my ISP, but I feel better knowing that my issue is throttling rather than blatent server lag, so perhaps the maintenance cannot fix this until SE get their butt in gear and contact our ISP's.

Once again, this is NOT a fix for the issue, but if your like me, you may get some solace from knowing where the problem actually lies.

I would appreciate if people reply to tell me whether they do get priority 0x00 or some other priority on FFXIV traffic, that way we can at least narrow down if there are 2 separate lag issues or just the 1 (ISP Throttling).