unreasonable lag since last maintenance

[Raist]

find the ip of your servers on this website http://www.arrstatus.com/ and ping it , open the command window by type in the search box cmd, and then type: ping xxx.xx.xxx.xx -t (note this is an infinity loop,so stop it manually with ctrl-c)
I think most of you who live in the US don't have latency problem but the package lost problem. check the result of the percentage of the package lost.

ARRStatus is not necessarily showing the IP of the cluster your client is connecting to--look at each world and you will see the same IP's listed on different worlds. Likewise, some worlds may use multiple IP's as well. For instance, I am using .74 and .31 when in game (.31 is only in certain situations, but .74 is always listed)--but ARRStatus is listing .28 for Midgard.

If you are on a newer version of Windows, you can run the Resource Monitor (resmon if you want to launch it from Search or Run box), expand the Network and/or TCP sections, and find the FFXIV executable listed with the IP's it is using while you are in game.

If you are on an XP box, open a cmd prompt (Start/Run, type the letters "cmd" in the box and press <enter>), get all the way in game and then alt-tab out to that DOS window you opened up and type the command "netstat" and press the <enter> key. It should print out a list of all recent connections. This command is also available in newer Windows versions, but resmon may be easier for some to use.

Look for IP's starting with 199 and 124. These are the ones your client is actually using--the 199 IP's are in Canada and the 124 IP's are in Japan. NA/EU users will have both showing, but the JP ones are idle for the most part.

[Seaside8]

It's been about a week now, and I had to leave a winning Titan group for my BLM relic because I started lagging uncontrollably again, starting at around 7pm EST. Already cancelled my recurring subscription, and I will be forced to just stop playing altogether if this continues...

[Furlamseere]

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