Thread: Post 2.1 Lag spike (Still not resolved)

This happened to me about 2 months ago to the point where all I seen was rubberbanding, and death due to latency issues. I highly recommend you look into a VPN program like Pingzapper that tunnels your connection to Square-Enix servers. There is a free trial associated with it for 1 hour intervals so you can test it. If you like and want to subscribe, use "Wagram" in the referral section and you'll receive a free extra 30 days when you sign up.

Lastly, I noticed when I had to do this that not all VPN programs work for one individual. Battleping for example did not work for me, so always try the free trial first.

Originally Posted by Zezlar

This happened to me about 2 months ago to the point where all I seen was rubberbanding, and death due to latency issues. I highly recommend you look into a VPN program like Pingzapper that tunnels your connection to Square-Enix servers. There is a free trial associated with it for 1 hour intervals so you can test it. If you like and want to subscribe, use "Wagram" in the referral section and you'll receive a free extra 30 days when you sign up.

Lastly, I noticed when I had to do this that not all VPN programs work for one individual. Battleping for example did not work for me, so always try the free trial first.

We are not supposed to be using external programs to play a game that 1 week ago was working fine.. my problems started 1 week ago.. since the Betas I never had any kind of latency or lag problems. So the only explanation is that SE changed something since the last patch and they need to fix it.

We need an answer soon.. we are losing game time we already paid.

11:00pm Moogle (EU), frequent and long lag spikes while in duty instance, tracert shows problem nodes once again cogentco:

6 * 30 ms 30 ms te0-2-0-5.ccr21.lon01.atlas.cogentco.com [130.117.14.205]
7 30 ms 30 ms * be2314.ccr21.lon13.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.72.253]
8 * * 37 ms be2283.ccr21.lpl01.atlas.cogentco.com [130.117.49.34]

Same problem here, from Ragnarok server. Never had any problem from the first days of beta test. A couple of week ago started this bad issue. Can't play a P2P Game in this way..

same problem the game is unplayable like this and the problem start from like 1 week ago, i play in Hyperion plz fix this .

About 16 hops in for me on Level3.net Montreal router and on a bad night, it sit's here, near 30% packet loss from los angeles. This is using 900 sample trace routes.

Hop Sent Err PL% Min Max Avg Host Name / [IP]
14 877 4 0.5 100 136 107 ae-1-100.ebr1.Chicago1.Level3.net [4.69.151.177]
15 906 252 27.8 81 299 100 ae-10-10.car2.Montreal2.Level3.net [4.69.153.86]
16 906 0 0.0 101 144 108 ORMUCO-COMM.car2.Montreal2.Level3.net [4.59.178.74]
17 906 15 1.7 98 158 104 [192.34.76.10]
18 906 20 2.2 102 176 106 [199.91.189.242]
19 906 18 2.0 101 126 105 [199.91.189.57]

1/28/2014 18:00 to 21:30 EST

The only Hop that matters. 800 samples
ae-10-10.car2.Montreal2.Level3.net - IP 4.69.153.86 - PL=13% - Min 98ms - Max 278ms

Still dealing with latency (over a month now). Traced it definitively to nodes associated with Cogent. Tried to raise the issue with ISP (again), tried to get them to raise the ticket to the Engineering level, nothing done. The countdown now is about a week until I suspend my subscription (meaning I'll play until the day before it would charge again).
After reading up across this forum and others, it's looking likely that we'll never hear a response. They're either going to quietly fix the issue or not. Keep posting though, I'm sure someone's reading.