Titan Extreme Ping check rather than EXP players check

[ispano]

As far as MMOs go, I'm pretty sure FFXIV uses a lot more bandwidth than others. My reason for saying this is because I have been playing MMOs for 10+ years. I am close to the NA datacenter (an 8 hour drive, my ping is ~50)... yet when I first tried Titan, I couldn't dodge anything. Even landslides were getting me. I never had this issue with other MMOs. Upgrading my ISP package to 50 mbps down fixed all of my problems. Now I rarely get hit by anything. I don't think you need 50 mbps down to dodge things -- that was just the next level of upgrade for me. The reason I mention this is because you said uploading photos was causing you to lag... yeah, that's eating up your bandwidth. I bet another MMO would not be affected that way. I hope SE eventually optimizes its bandwidth use as not every person is going to pay for the best of the best internet to play this game. Ping is just one issue as far as lag is concerned.

The issue isn't how much bandwidth it uses. For example, a 1 meg connection is plenty, the issue arises when that connection is in use. Even if, say, only HALF of it was being used for downloading, ie you limit your download speed with something like netlimiter, you will still have issues. Why? Because the remote connection for that download, has no idea you limit, at least not right away. So the initial push will typically max your connection out, and this happens quite often with web surfing. This is why having a much "faster" connection helps, because it's harder for the remote connection to saturate it.

I have to deal with a 5/1 connection, and I have special router firmware that allows me to cap everyone to a certain speed. But like above, at the beginning of every connection, before the sending server realizes we can't accept at the rate they are sending, the connection is choked. And simple web surfing is worse than a sustained download in this respect. The download will normalize within a second or two, but web surfing is more jittery and has many more connections, each with the same issue.