Time Warner SoCal Users / Any user with lag

[Traumatic]

Hey all I am a SoCal Time Warner subscriber, not by choice, and I have been able to find a workaround to the throttling that TATA Communications has been ruining our game time with.

It required me to use a third party program called WTFast. First and foremost, I hate using software like this just because they tend to be resource hogs and cause more problems than good. However, I was pleasantly surprised with how well this program worked so much that I signed up for the monthly advanced service. What WTFast does is establish a connection to a location (in this case I choose Seattle Washington) and from that location I establish my connection to the SE NA servers. This allows me to avoid TATA Communications (see trace route copy paste below) unethical throttling and has made the rubber banding woes disappear.

9 52 ms 51 ms 50 ms ix-9-2-0-0.tcore2.LVW-LosAngeles.as6453.net [64.86.252.173]
10 137 ms 171 ms 173 ms if-22-2.tcore2.PDI-PaloAlto.as6453.net [66.198.144.73]
11 175 ms 172 ms 169 ms if-11-3.tcore2.CT8-Chicago.as6453.net [66.198.144.58]

They offer a 30 day trial which hopefully will be more than enough time for TATA to stop bottlenecking people and foot the bill to upgrade their trashy equipment to handle this amazing invention called the Internet.

If you choose to try this program you must select custom game with the game file being the ffxivboot.exe and the launcher file being the ffxivlauncher.exe. For the WTFast server option I choose Seattle however you could select any server that displays a low ping and that is not in the Los Angeles area (remember we are trying to avoid TATA Communications throttling backbone so using a Los Angeles will likely result in you go through the same path to the SE servers.)

Hope this works for you just like it worked for me. Most importantly remember this latency issue is not Square Enix fault they merely provide us the door but the walk way to that door is littered with shotty throttling ISPs like TATA Communications.

[Sushi]

I'm a Time Warner subscriber too, I have like 10% packet lost on Balmung server.

had to use pingZapper VPN to play ff14. it sucks!!!

I guess this is a location problem not a ISP problem, because when I connected to US west Los Angeles tunnel on pingZapper, I lag too, but if I choose US east New York tunnel, no lag.

so I'm guessing that all the people in Los Angeles will lag if they play FF14. lol