Forwarded FFXIV Ports and no more huge lag spikes ever!

[Nekodar]

I play many MMOs and I never, ever have to 'open ports' on any router I've ever used, which include D-Link, Linksys, ASUS and other brands. It never ceases to amuse me the advice the likes of Blizzard and SE come out with, the games 'just work'.

Unfortunately there exists loads of cheap shit out there that don't handle things properly without such workarounds...

[VisRalis]

On PS3 I just put it on the DMZ host.
Solved most lag/PSN d/c.
But I still get annoying PSN d/c, not as crazy as 10 times in a row but during peak times it spikes for a short while due to connecting to NA PSN from Asia... Don't think that can be helped.

Understandably, it is not recommended for PC users...

[AdamChattaway]

I play many MMOs and I never, ever have to 'open ports' on any router I've ever used, which include D-Link, Linksys, ASUS and other brands. It never ceases to amuse me the advice the likes of Blizzard and SE come out with, the games 'just work'.

Well if its so bad why does it work? patch 2.1 obviously messed up the game and forced me to open ports, now my 24/7 unplayable lag has been reduced to 0, explain that?

[Havenchild]

Wouldn't there be problems if you had multiple people playing the game from one connection?

I've found that Battleping works great for me, however I often have a friend over playing on the PS3 and obviously it doesn't work on there. It'd be cool if there was a way to fix lag on the PS3 without making it so none of the other clients can communicate.

You can port forward on a PS3 as well by setting a static IP.

[Ayanne]

Well why do the tech support tell me to do it, and why did they go to great lengths to make a guide for every single router and model for this? like i said 3 days no lag, not once. i used to lag for 20 seconds every 1-2 mins before now not a single time in 3 days after doing this. so the results speak for themselves, weather it makes sense or not it works and most online games tell you to open your ports if you have lag, gw2, wow, rift, swtor, cod, bf etc all tell you to open ports, even on consoles like the xbox one and ps4.

This could be complete coincidence. There are many of us who have been suffering lag for a week or two, this resolved itself spontaneously for a few of us 2-3 days ago.

[Bossycow]

Ah, I remember having to do port forwarding to play any Blizzard game (back in the day). I think I've even did it for playing counter strike at one point in time...

Most routers now a days don't suck, though.

[Eiryn]

I went to the site, found my router, forwarded my ports... no change at all. In fact I think it is actually worse! Tried the VPN thing and it helped a little bit, but not enough for being able to dodge plumes in Titan EX. Funny thing is that everything was fine before the instance crash an hour before the patch maintenance, dodging plumes was a breeze and lag was non existent! SE changed something and caused this issue, whether it is something from the ISP side or not, the action that changed things was from SE's side, so in my opinion, they are the ones that need to fix something.

[Legend_]

I did this for my PS3 I didn't notice any difference, unless I did it wrong but they have good step by step instructions.