Server lag is killing the game for me.

[Wobble]

Every day for the last three days now around 5 PM CST there is some sort of lag issues happening. I'll be crafting or gathering and there is a huge delay between me using an ability and me seeing it. Then I went yesterday it the miners guild to get some lenses and the guild supply npc would not even load. I tried rebooting when this happens and does not fix it so it must be server side.

[BlazeChronic]

... I tried rebooting when this happens and does not fix it so it must be server side.

Did you really just say this? Yeah, there's only 2 variables in networking. The client and the server, nothing in between, nope.

[Wobble]

Did you really just say this? Yeah, there's only 2 variables in networking. The client and the server, nothing in between, nope.

Instead of trying to be an obnoxious jerk, try being helpful. I'm not some computer (actually I'm on PS3) genius but apparently you are. All I know is there is nothing on my end that is wrong.

[Delsus]

Instead of trying to be an obnoxious jerk, try being helpful. I'm not some computer (actually I'm on PS3) genius but apparently you are. All I know is there is nothing on my end that is wrong.

Here's the help, about 5PM is when a lot of people are finishing work, your ISP could be identifying the FFXIV traffic as lower priority than other traffic and throttling it during peak times (there have been reports of some ISPs identifying FFXIV traffic as file sharing traffic so have throttled it) contact your ISP to see what is going on.

This is a common occurrence among ISPs.

[BlazeChronic]

Instead of trying to be an obnoxious jerk, try being helpful. I'm not some computer (actually I'm on PS3) genius but apparently you are. All I know is there is nothing on my end that is wrong.

I was helping you. Look through the trees to see the forest. It's not all black and white like you think it is. Just because you THINK it isn't on your end, doesn't mean you can accuse SE and blame it on server lag. Depending on where you are located, your request could potentially hop 20-25 times before they reach Montreal or Japan, depending what data center you are trying to hit.

Don't blindly blame SE for things you know absolutely nothing about, and I'll stop calling you out on it. Deal?

[Wobble]

Well I don't know why it would just start happening? I had no issues during beta or from raely release until now.

[BlazeChronic]

Well I don't know why it would just start happening? I had no issues during beta or from raely release until now.

Not sure, could be ISP related like Delsus is saying, and they only started throttling recently. Could be something SE did related to load times on PS3 and the priority loading of character models.

Are you wired? Wireless? I know I personally get pretty bad lag on PS3, Fate bosses don't even load, turn in NPCs take ages to load, but that's because a ps3 is a pretty old piece of hardware. I get pretty bad lag crafting in towns too, like you say. I use 'Great Strides', then try to use 'Advanced Touch', I sometimes think it worked, so move on to use Strides again, only to see it never registered my Touch command, so I end up wasting a bunch of CP..... But I never get ANY of these issues on my PC.

EDIT - Sorry if I came off as rude in my first replies, just the "it's all SE's fault" attitude that seems to be so prevalent in these forums has me in a very defensive mood while i browse the forums. I realize you are only looking for solutions.

[Wobble]

I'm wired. Who knows what the problem is? I guess problems due to internet and servers and clients are just not so easy to nail down. Like you also said PS3 is older in the market, I guess I'll just wait and hope PS4 fixes some of this.

Also sorry if I came off rude.

[Breladine]

I play on Balmung and have no lag whatsoever. Definitely not 'server lag'.

[Millerna]

Oh my god, civilised discussion!

My lag seems to come and go at random. Right after release it was fine. A few days later it was so bad I couldn't dodge a single AoE, which lasted a few days, and then it was fine again for some days. It basically continues like that where I have days I can dodge just fine, and days where I can't dodge anything at all. The days are random, the times are random as well. Fairly certain it's not my ISP, or at least, not only my ISP considering I can play other MMOs without lag when I get the lag in ARR, and that includes FFXI.

The past days it has been fine again, but I'll probably lag again once I get to Titan for my relic