LAGfest 2014!

[Clavaat]

Please look up other threads before posting. This has been beaten pretty much to death already, and pretty much already determined what the issue is.

It's not your ISP, it's not "technically" SE, the packet loss is occurring between Ormuco -> Level 3. Full Path: SE -> Ormuco (Data Solutions) -> Level-3 (Content Delivery Network) -> [Your ISP] -> Your hardware. SE pays Ormuco, Ormuco pays Level-3, etc. SE more than likely knows about this (unconfirmed) because they are not getting what they are paying for from Ormuco, who in turn is not getting what they are paying for from Level-3. Level-3 is notoriously a pain to work with solutions-wise, and you will not hear about any of these companies, by name, from SE because that would be professionally inept.

[Naraku_Diabolos]

Last night and the previous night, I was getting a bit of lag. It was almost the same instance of lag that I got when we had the FFXI and DQX events. I would be getting loading screens when zoning, but these would last up to 2 minutes at a time. All I was doing last night was teleporting to Aleport for a BTN quest, so I don't know what the issue was for.

[Orophin]

My game was running great last night when all of a sudden everything just stopped responding and I got a 90k. Could only get back into the game after loading up WTFast.

Curse that Level3 router in Montreal. Must have reached its weekly limit for unfiltered traffic to SE when all the Monday night people logged in. -.-

[LordPhantomhive]

Please look up other threads before posting. This has been beaten pretty much to death already, and pretty much already determined what the issue is.

It's not your ISP, it's not "technically" SE, the packet loss is occurring between Ormuco -> Level 3. Full Path: SE -> Ormuco (Data Solutions) -> Level-3 (Content Delivery Network) -> [Your ISP] -> Your hardware. SE pays Ormuco, Ormuco pays Level-3, etc. SE more than likely knows about this (unconfirmed) because they are not getting what they are paying for from Ormuco, who in turn is not getting what they are paying for from Level-3. Level-3 is notoriously a pain to work with solutions-wise, and you will not hear about any of these companies, by name, from SE because that would be professionally inept.

But, I don't have a Canada ISP >.> and I am having lag so... em /beats post to death some more ._.

[Noshpan]

Like everyone in all the other threads are saying, it's likely not SE. It's how your internet is routed to SE. Change your internet provider.

I was with TWC and had the same thing as you. Called them and had them come out multiple times to 'fix' the issue. They couldn't. Switched to ATT and haven't had 1 bit of lag or lost data packets since. It's how your company routes the traffic to the SE server. That's why stuff like VPNs help a lot of people, it changes how you're routed.

If you don't like it, either stop subscribing or change your internet provider. /shrug

Not everyone has the option to change ISPs. In my area I have only 3 ISP choices: Comcast, AT&T and dial-up.

I currently use Comcast (business class to be more specific). I used to use AT&T but I got tired of being disconnected at random (not to mention their horrible customer service). And dial-up is out of the question for every MMO.

[C-croft]

I died on Stone Vigil last night when final boss flew up due to lagged. It hurt..... a lot.

The trick is to stand on the 'quarter circles' at the corners of the center of the room. If you stand there, you can move out of the way, lag or not.

[Arkghyom]

I have had all I can take of this non stop lag in-game. This is the only game that gives me any lag at all! I have done the TcpAck frequency fix and called my ISP. Nothing helps and its only getting worse. SE please do something as I am a customer and have done all I can on my end. the lag I get is moments of no response from command inputs and the spikes last for varying amounts of time. It happens WAY TO MUCH!

OMG, I was there! I want t-shirts, pl0x!

[Cinicus]

So if Level3.net is a confirmed crap system why isn't SE dropping them and using someone else? In the end it comes down to SE's fault as they are certainly aware of the issues and even if it is a problem with Level3.net SE should step in and say "hey fix your crappy system or we will use someone else"! But instead we have no official report from SE at all and just a ton of player complaints and speculation.

[Clavaat]

So if Level3.net is a confirmed crap system why isn't SE dropping them and using someone else? In the end it comes down to SE's fault as they are certainly aware of the issues and even if it is a problem with Level3.net SE should step in and say "hey fix your crappy system or we will use someone else"! But instead we have no official report from SE at all and just a ton of player complaints and speculation.

Because that isn't how business contracts work. Like, ever.

[ispano]

So if Level3.net is a confirmed crap system why isn't SE dropping them and using someone else? In the end it comes down to SE's fault as they are certainly aware of the issues and even if it is a problem with Level3.net SE should step in and say "hey fix your crappy system or we will use someone else"! But instead we have no official report from SE at all and just a ton of player complaints and speculation.

Because SE doesn't deal with Level3 directly. Their ISP is Ormuco, AFTER Ormuco it hits Level3. Level3 is also one of the few backbone providers you can even get through to get to the servers and you typically don't have a choice of which you go through. What you're saying is like asking your ISP to fix google.com because it's slow for you, when they have no control over google at all.