Thread: What's causing FiOS users to get so much lag since 2.1?

i would like to just throw my two cents in here for all those fios users.

location: NYC
ISP: Verizon Fios
Connection Speed: 75/75

anyways lets get down to business, spoke to fios on a few occasions as well as a level 4 support tech, after going over all my Trace Routes, Pings, etc... they finally told me after my 4th call and i quote the tech "yes, we have known about this issue since the end of December and this issue is within our partner Level3.net, however with this affecting only of our systems this is not high priority but it is being currently worked on. my suggestion to you and this is off the record, if you want to continue playing this game you should really invest into what a lot of people have been doing which is a VPN to re-route your connection to bypass the level3.net partner" after he said that to me i asked him if he wanted to pay for my VPN (i already own a vpn service but thought i would try) and he declined, however at the end of my call he said "let me try to set some options on your modem to fix the issue" and ended up bricking my modem/router leaving me offline for 2 days until a new router arrived from them.

i'm on AT&T Uverse 12 down and now get rubber banding in almost every instance.

Verizon fios. 100 down 50 up, terrible lagging and rubber banding since 2.1, good before then. Wired connection, cat6e to fiber.
Yesterday Much improved with wtfast, but this essentially doubles my cost to play the game, and because I like to play on multiple computers (gaming desktop, laptop), even triples it as they price wtfast per device. Will look into a cheaper competitor.

We are having the same problem in the UK with ISP Sky since 2.1, SE needs to fix this. It's impossible to play in instances where I can't see what's happening in real time at all.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...%29-lag/page54

I'm having the same issue in Italy, my ISP is called MC-Link and I don't get routed through level3, at least not with ip from arrstatus to leviathan. However I do have exact same issue so it is SE issue which should complain to level3 in some way (if I traceroute them directly, I do have my ping increased by 540+ ms)

Code:

D:\Users\Francesco>tracert 199.91.189.42

Tracing route to 199.91.189.42 over a maximum of 30 hops

  1     2 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  router.asus.com [192.168.1.1]
  2     1 ms     2 ms     1 ms  192.168.1.2
  3    35 ms    35 ms    33 ms  213.21.129.53
  4    30 ms    42 ms     *     213.21.130.49
  5    35 ms    36 ms    30 ms  gw1-rm-te0000.mclink-net.it [213.21.130.4]
  6    32 ms    41 ms    33 ms  gi9-8.ccr01.rom01.atlas.cogentco.com [149.6.22.8
1]
  7    49 ms    44 ms    47 ms  te7-7.ccr01.mil01.atlas.cogentco.com [130.117.1.
125]
  8    50 ms    52 ms    53 ms  te0-0-0-0.ccr21.zrh01.atlas.cogentco.com [130.11
7.1.26]
  9    59 ms    58 ms    59 ms  be2023.ccr21.muc01.atlas.cogentco.com [130.117.0
.249]
 10     *       61 ms    67 ms  be2228.ccr21.fra03.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.38
.49]
 11    73 ms    70 ms    71 ms  be2261.ccr21.ams03.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.37
.29]
 12     *       74 ms    92 ms  be2182.ccr21.lpl01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.77
.246]
 13   148 ms   147 ms   147 ms  be2384.ccr21.ymq02.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.44
.137]
 14   147 ms   147 ms   148 ms  38.122.42.34
 15   149 ms   145 ms   146 ms  192.34.76.10
 16   144 ms   145 ms   147 ms  199.91.189.242
 17   144 ms   147 ms   148 ms  199.91.189.42

Trace complete.

open your ports if there closed thats you fault your getting lag.

Originally Posted by indira

open your ports if there closed thats you fault your getting lag.

My ports are opened and in any way there isn't a single reason to open ports to play an online game considering YOU (player) are not set in "server mode" but in client (so the connection waiting for other to connect is on the other end, the server, you are just sending and receiving data with server).

Don't say something that you have no idea how it works.

Originally Posted by DSanchez

Nevertheless the problem lies within SE and their datacenter/upstream provider.

It's not SE. I will repeat it as many times as I have to. If it was the line direct to the datacenter, EVERYONE would have the issue. It could be their ISP, but all they can do is tell them it's an issue, not to mention neither Level3 or Cogent are their ISP.