Thread: Unplayable Lag

I was doing Turn 5 on Monday and randomly DC'd and ever since then I've had the worst lag possible. Characters will stop moving for a good 10 seconds and then everything will quickly catch up making it impossible to do dungeons now.

Checked my internet connection and it's completely fine. Everything else seems to be working fine. Dodging in Titan HM and EM was easy but now I'll get landslided while he's doing moubtain buster on my screen.

Anyone else getting this?

Originally Posted by Kal-El

I was doing Turn 5 on Monday and randomly DC'd and ever since then I've had the worst lag possible. Characters will stop moving for a good 10 seconds and then everything will quickly catch up making it impossible to do dungeons now.

Checked my internet connection and it's completely fine. Everything else seems to be working fine. Dodging in Titan HM and EM was easy but now I'll get landslided while he's doing moubtain buster on my screen.

Anyone else getting this?

Yes. Me and my wife both are. Since it was affecting both of us, my first thought was it was something particular to our connection. Ran a constant ping to router, 2m/s average, no spikes. Asked BT to run a line check, no problems. Ran a speed check, same as it always was.

It's starting to go away, I think. Last CT last night I didn't get any 5-10 sec lag gaps. It made our groups Garuda ex farm impossible last night though

"What are you doing, run out of the centre"
"Dude, I'm at the edge"

I have been getting really bad lag for 3 days. I daren't queue for any dungeons as the lag would make them unplayable.

Originally Posted by Vanroe

I've been getting it intermittently since 2.1, mainly happening in dungeons (Dont know how I actually managed to beat titan hm only getting hit by one plume). What what I can gather from traceroutes/pathpings/dslreports, what other people have been seeing, the problem seems to be some of the level3 hops, one dslreport I did showed a 40% packet loss in one of the level3 Montreal hops, and seems to show a significant history of loss. Since this is outside the Verizon network, Verizon wont/cant do anything for me, and since its not server related (to the best of my knowledge) I'm not sure what SE can do.

Why is it happening now? Ive stated this in the tech help forums, the only network change in the 2.1 patch notes that I saw was an increase in the server position checks in dungeons, perhaps this triggered a change in how level3 treats the ff14 traffic. Pure speculation on my part.

It's had a very specific start date for me, it started this Tuesday.

I've had lag problems before, being based in Europe and all, but managed to tweak my settings so that I didn't have them anymore (can dodge anything). This isn't the same. Even when I had lag problems before, it was simply a case of seeing things later than everyone else and my position not updating in time to dodge things. Now, the whole raid stops for 5-10 seconds before catching up in high speed.

Originally Posted by Aegis

Now, the whole raid stops for 5-10 seconds before catching up in high speed.

Yea thats what I'm seeing, been doing that since about 2.1 for me.

My boyfriend and I are havign the same problem since Tuesday too. I died a lot in CT as whm and had the second healer basicly main heal cause it was just unbearable for me. Also farming maps as botanist, I would open the logging menu on the tree, exit it and it would still stay on it for a good 5-10 seconds. I see other characters stuttering, then rushing again, and trying another CT last night as dps this time (didn't want to risk it as healer or tank) I finally even dc'd. Thought first it was our end, did a ping/speed test, but all seemed fine. Also thought it might have been Sky (our ISP) because they updated our Sky TV box on Tuesday, but all is good on that end too :/ Maintenance today btw didn't make it any better.

Mine is also since Tuesday.

I'm also from the UK and it looks like everyone seems to be effected since Tuesday. Hopefully it's something SE are aware of.