SERIOUS Fios Lag - Please Fix!!!

[LittleArrow]

I'm supposed to switch to FiOS on Thursday and this is making me want to cancel my order :/

Fios is amazing! It's only with FFXIV that I've had such an issue. This is 100% on SE, not on Fios.

[Tupsi]

Fios is amazing! It's only with FFXIV that I've had such an issue. This is 100% on Level3.net, not on Fios.

Fixed. If it was 100% on SE you would hear of absolutely no one having a smooth gameplay experience ever in the past year.

[Clavaat]

Fixed. If it was 100% on SE you would hear of absolutely no one having a smooth gameplay experience ever in the past year.

This. Do your research people.

Very basic money trail: SE -> CDN (Content Delivery Network) -> Level3.net -> ISP -> you

Level3.net has been notoriously shitty at routing content to servers, and on patch day, when more players than usual will be on, they were bound to screw up again. There's really not much you can do, it becomes a finger-pointing match between the CDN, the ISP, and Level3. This has happened before, months ago. It sucks, and I'm affected by it as well, but don't point the blame at something it isn't. Level3 is a terrible company to work with, and never take credit for their problems, even with the proof right in front of them. SE doesn't pay them, it's between your ISP (Verizon) and the CDN (the company SE pays to work with their servers).

[Delmontyb]

Any update? Has the system gotten better over the early hours?

[Kazza2003]

German players don´t have it much better currently. I´m from Excalibur and the lag today is just hilarious. It makes me sad that SE did not learn from the previous major patches. Also I found out it´s not our connection that cause the problems. The server just runs shitty.

[Ryuhkin]

Also having issues with a bottleneck going past Level3 over towards the North American data center. It's bad enough that trying to play in Syrcus Tower was an absolute nightmare and not the extremely enjoyable experience it could have been. Of course, this issue will resolve itself within a week or two once the masses begin to get bored again.

[Worm]

Well I've been having this issue and I as well am going through Level3.net

edit: Having someone say "Do your research" in response to a tech support issue is kind of ridiculous though. Naturally people are going to assume the simplest solution and post to the forums.

[TakKuroda]

I'm on Fios and it waspretty bad last night and this morning. I hope it's fixed soon. 90k every 30 mins and 20 sec lag spikes are not cool for content.

[kidvideo]

LOL at this...

Yeah SE! Fix America's ISP's & internet connections! While you're at it, settle this net neutrality issue once & for all.

[melflomil]

LOL at this...

Yeah SE! Fix America's ISP's & internet connections! While you're at it, settle this net neutrality issue once & for all.

In the year 2014 wouldn't half the population know that America's Internet infrastructure is just awful. Nope I guess not. Charging 60 dollars for 2mb of speed. While in Japan they pay 60 for like 200mb. I am exaggerating the Japan price but 50mb of speed is around 40 bucks