Quote Originally Posted by Ramzi View Post
This. Any one of us can create a character on a low population server, and play lag free 99% of the time. Why are our ISP's not throttling THAT connection? Because throttling doesn't do anything to a connection using so little bandwidth it's barely noticeable. I can play FFXIV, stream videos on my PC, and my wife watch netflx at the same time, and still speedtest 40Mb/sec speed. How am I being throttled? My bandwidth is fine.

The problem is and always has been server congestion, and SE haven't done anything to fix it. Anyone wonder why we just started noticing the problem when they increased server capacity shortly after launch? That's when I started noticing lag. Before that when there were only 5000 connections, it ran smooth, even if you couldn't get in most of the time.

On the other side of the coin, I've seen people post that they and their roomate play from the same apartment, and one is lagging like crazy and the other isnt. This would suggest it's not a server problem, but also not an ISP problem...

Regardless of what is causing the issues, SE refusing to comment or offer help to those affected is piss poor business practice. Most subs won't stick around long if things don't improve. I'm waiting til PS4 before I decide, as I think my problems have as much to do with PS3 as the server.
And you completely miss the problem. Your ISP thinks the data heading to SE's servers... AND ONLY the data heading to SE's servers is P2P traffic so ONLY THAT traffic gets filtered. This is how packet shapers work. They have rules set to only trigger when certain things are met. It is not perfect. Things will get slowed that should not be. And this is whats happening with FFXIV. While some of the moderate lag might be the connection overseas. The heavy throttling (especially when it happens at dead on specific times) is crap done by your ISP.

Also blaming SE for issues that are outside their network is just a stupid thing to do. They have no control over it. Period. People need to stop doing this.