Game stops and "catches up"

[reliquum]

Wanted to update, I did get AT&T out again. Explained to the tech it is a gaming issues with the server I play on. He found upload problems during the time I had problems in game. And again they did give me a new modem, this time the newest one out and moved me to my own WiFi channel. I live in an apartment and 5 of us were on the same one. After this, my upload which is usually .80 doubled to 1.95 mbps. Yea, I know that is low but it is the best I can find out here. My download speed stayed the same at 22mbps which is fine, as I am paying for the 18/1.5 plan. (i've just been "dealing" with .8mb up and happy it is where it is supposed to be now)

So far I have had ONE problem in the last 7 hours, it lasted less than 5 seconds. It did the pause, I did the scooby doo and ran in place, 5 seconds later it fast forwarded and I have not had issues since then. My computer is hard wired, I feel weird gaming on WiFi.

The tech gave me his works cell number, said to send him a text at anytime (even 3am...I asked, cuz I am up at odd hours..) this happens so he can run a line check right then and there from where ever he is at. <-- this is why I stick with AT&T. Techs, seem to actually care. Kinda helped this one was a gamer and understood where I was coming from.

So when you call your ISP ask them to look at your upload and see if there are any problems, issues, hiccups or blips, and if they can up it or fix it in anyway possible.

[Rattus]

I've been having this same issue since the update. It seems a lot of others have as well. I doubt you'll hear anything from SE on it either. If it isn't fixed soon though there's no way i can resubscribe. It's to the point of unplayable.

[Squa11_Leonhart]

and its still not a problem on SE's end. you need to contact your ISP.

[kleenexx]

I'm having the exact same problem the OP describes, weird lag spikes where everything freezes except me, the chat still works normally, (everything is frozen during 5-20 seconds but the chat log keeps posting what people are saying as if it's not affected by the lag).
For me tho it happens only on one character. I run a dungeon with the character not affected by this and it goes smooth, no lag, nothing. Right after, I log with this one, and every 5 minutes or so, ill get those lagspikes. This character never had any problem when I started her in february. I stopped playing her for a while, then around late august I used a vial of fantasia and started playing her again and the problem is there since then.
It happens in dungeon and the open world
I, too, live close to the servers (montreal) and never had any issue before august, and I don't understand why it's only one character ><

[BeePee]

Been pretty unplayable today, going on 3hrs or so. Insane lag, and lots of 90k.

[seorin]

It just started happening for me this morning, too. Looking at the trace, it seems like another issue with level 3 (not surprising). I don't know that there's much SE can do short of switching data centers, but here's to hoping I'm wrong.

[Cikala]

I've been having these issues just today as well, nearly unplayable in any combat situation. Every test I've run looks good, speedtest, pingtest, and ping and tracert to the NA data center, so not sure what the issue is here.

[BeePee]

Pretty frustrating. This was my day off and I had some great plans to catch up on some content... Yeah, didn't happen. Just stood around and chatted with my mates in TeamSpeak since I couldn't in good faith do any battles. -.-

[Mosbius]

I am a TWC customer(sigh) and this has been happening to me as well. It is absolutely not playable like this.

[Raist]

I am a TWC customer(sigh) and this has been happening to me as well. It is absolutely not playable like this.

http://forums.timewarnercable.com/t5...p/connectivity
mailto: TWCable.Help@twcable.com
http://twitter.com/#!/twc
http://www.facebook.com/twc

Take your pick... should be able to find someone to help you with your TWC problems. They aren't exactly unaware of the problems... just need to get in touch with their Tier3 guys to work on it. If you can't/don't want to gather trace data and such to provide them, can give them your server IP or at least the FQDN's for the lobby servers so they can investigate things better:

neolobby01.ffxiv.com
neolobby02.ffxiv.com
neolobby03.ffxiv.com
neolobby04.ffxiv.com
neolobby05.ffxiv.com
neolobby06.ffxiv.com

Odd numbers are in Japan, even are in Canada.