HUGE CONNECTION PROBLEM

[drgnmstr44]

It's NOT Square Enix...

It's Level 3 Communications. (Internet backbone that ISP's use for services.) If you are having problems. Check out this site to see how Level 3 is operating.

Right now, it's pretty much useless. We can ONLY request our ISP stops using their services since they are constantly a problem.

http://downdetector.com/status/level3/map/

someone who gets it and has more than the minimalistic understanding of networking, the internet and attacks. It's not your ISP. It's not SE. It's the backbone the game goes through that is out. not much SE or ISP can do about it other than find another route.

[Callinon]

someone who gets it and has more than the minimalistic understanding of networking, the internet and attacks. It's not your ISP. It's not SE. It's the backbone the game goes through that is out. not much SE or ISP can do about it other than find another route.

My problem with this explanation is that FFXIV seems to be the only online service affected in any measurable way.

While I fully believe that level3 is a steaming pile, they've been like that for ages. The fact is that FFXIV is far FAR too sensitive to connection issues. It's probably fine in Japan where none of the connections have to go all that far, but in the US a connection has to travel potentially thousands of miles. So any minor hiccup at any point along that route is magnified and by the time it gets to Montreal, it's unusable.... but only FFXIV cares. Other internet services account for the fact that cross-continent infrastructure kinda sucks and adjusts its netcode accordingly so people aren't getting booted all the time.

That is completely within SE's power to correct.