I've been trying to find the cause of the sudden HUGE amount of lag I keep experiencing over the last 2 weeks. The game has become nearly unplayable. Characters move for 1-5 second2, then stop moving 2-15 seconds.

I'd take any advice on this issue, as I'm really missing XIV. I've ready reports of cogneto being an issue for some people, but I don't detect that to be an issue in my case.

To start with here is some data on my connection:

ISP - Start Communications, which is 3rd party supplier of Rogers Communications. I'm located East of Toronto, Ontario with a a 35Mbit Down / 6Mbit Up connection. In-house I'm using an Asus RT-N56U wired directly to a desktop with a gigabit Network card. I have tested with and without the router, there is no negligible difference in my tests.



Here are my traces performed while experiencing my issue:

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\?????>tracert 199.91.189.57

Tracing route to 199.91.189.57 over a maximum of 30 hops

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 7 ms 7 ms 7 ms 10.104.136.129
3 11 ms 16 ms 14 ms 24.156.142.13
4 11 ms 10 ms 11 ms pos-0-0.gw01.pr.phub.net.cable.rogers.com [66.18
5.81.174]
5 28 ms 11 ms 15 ms te0-0-0-27.ccr22.yyz02.atlas.cogentco.com [38.12
2.69.129]
6 19 ms 21 ms 11 ms be2373.ccr21.yyz02.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.46
.33]
7 18 ms 17 ms 18 ms be2090.ccr21.ymq02.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.30
.206]
8 21 ms 16 ms 18 ms 38.122.42.34
9 18 ms 19 ms 17 ms 192.34.76.10
10 19 ms 19 ms 20 ms 199.91.189.242
11 20 ms 18 ms 23 ms 199.91.189.57

Trace complete.

C:\Users\????>ping 199.91.189.57 -t

Pinging 199.91.189.57 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=20ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=52ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=38ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=38ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=49ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=20ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=40ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=20ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=27ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=48ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=43ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=23ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=14ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=31ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=15ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=25ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=24ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=34ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=24ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=16ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=32ms TTL=243
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Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=20ms TTL=243
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Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=243
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Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=23ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=20ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=23ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=15ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=21ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=14ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=16ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=20ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=21ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=20ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=243
Reply from 199.91.189.57: bytes=32 time=30ms TTL=243

Ping statistics for 199.91.189.57:
Packets: Sent = 95, Received = 95, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 14ms, Maximum = 52ms, Average = 21ms