Yoshi P addresses lag. Its time to deliever...

[Caraway]

Just wanted to necro this to make all of those on Verizon aware of what is really the issue (because the majority of complaints lately do seem to be from people using that service provider).

Check this article for some information on difficulties being experienced by Cogent and Verizon that can very well be affecting your ability to play FFXIV.

[ReplicaX]

Thanks for the response KyteStones.

Regardless of who the blame falls under. I still to this day continue opening tickets with Verizon every week as it is really all I can do.

[MythToken]

There is one thing SE can do. Put data centers in North america.

Then American players would definitely see reduced latency.

[Tiggy]

There is one thing SE can do. Put data centers in North america.

Then American players would definitely see reduced latency.

Sure, because taking the servers down for a week or two in order to move them would go over soooo much better. -_-

Side note, have people going through level 3 seen an improvement in their service lately? As I recall level3 completely crapped out last week requiring emergency repairs and I was wondering if they may have fixed the problem for level 3 customers permanently.

[Clavaat]

Sure, because taking the servers down for a week or two in order to move them would go over soooo much better. -_-

Side note, have people going through level 3 seen an improvement in their service lately? As I recall level3 completely crapped out last week requiring emergency repairs and I was wondering if they may have fixed the problem for level 3 customers permanently.

In general I haven't been too bad even during most peak hours, however Titan HM last night helping a friend I R0'd 3 times, got kicked from the server, and experienced huge amounts of lag in general about 10 minutes into the instance. I suppose it could be possible, though I haven't investigated, that the lag primarily occurs when connecting to an instance server, which I assume is separate from a regular server. BC I noticed no issues, a spike here and there but pretty stable.

The other possibility is that Level-3, because it cannot handle the amount of information, is limiting those with access to communications to the data center. I believe the data solutions center will kick players if the connection is horrendous enough, which extreme packet loss would induce. So Level-3 limitations -> Ormuco Data Center kick.

But I don't actually know for sure haha

[Elvin]

There is one thing SE can do. Put data centers in North america.

Then American players would definitely see reduced latency.

And Europe, please

Anyway, the NA/EU servers are on Montreal right now, that's pretty close to most NA players. A lot further for EU players...

Sure, because taking the servers down for a week or two in order to move them would go over soooo much better. -_-

For me at least, yes. Of course not for everyone, but I know a lot of people who left the game or is leaving when the suscription ends and one of the reasons is the high latency we have now.

[LlenCoram]

There is one thing SE can do. Put data centers in North america.

Then American players would definitely see reduced latency.

Last I checked, Montreal, Quebec, Canada is still in North America...

[ReplicaX]

Interesting read since Netflix does eat up a good portion of traffic via transits, and peering ports in the US.
http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2014/...-comcast-deal/

Yesterday, more talks have opened between Netflix, Verizon and AT&T.

[remidi]

See this is where your logic falls through. They are paying Ormuco for their Data Solution, which is failing some of its consumers, thus resulting in customers being dissatisfied and possibly leaving, as you stated you may do yourself. A company will not pay another for failing software/hardware. This is bleeding money because they are not getting the service they are paying for, and potentially losing customers in the process. This kind of stuff happens all the time. You will not hear about any of the above companies (Ormuco/Level-3) from SE to take the blame publicly, as this is unprofessional and would create even more issues. In other words, we more than likely will not hear from the devs on this situation specifically, and it will take awhile to solve.

I agree to a point. This lag has been going on for a couple months, SE should have done whatever is necessary to fix it.
Three reasons they may not be able to:
Contract with current ISP
It's being looked at but taking time.
They don't care. It may no be cost effective depending on how mush their ISP charges..

They are a company it's all about profit. Never forget that. The subscriptions they lose may be worth it in their eyes if they are paying a small amount for their ISP compared to other ISP's they can use.

[remidi]

I stopped replying because I'm at work, and sometimes I have to focus on my job.

Listen bud. I know you want to argue some more and try to get me to reply with something that is ban worthy but its not gonna happen. Troll elsewhere. It's already been stated it's SE's ISP(possibly) so your theory that its not their problem is possibly wrong. Go troll elsewhere.

Not once did I call you a name directly aside from being a troll. Which is what you are currently doing. I will not reply to anything else you say as its a waste of living.

You spent every reply in this thread defending SE or pointing fingers and blaming others....go away. You are not helping though of us with lag issues.