Disconnecting with 90000/90002

[PineconeKing]

My internet seems relatively fine. I play on a laptop, and I suffer no actual lag. However, I VERY regularly suffer random 90k errors that boot me from the game. This happens every day. Everything will seem to be going fine but then all other players freeze and my Sending/Receiving numbers become zero. It boots me to the menu. Attempting to press Start to get back in freezes the game, and literally the only way to close it is to disconnect and reconnect to the internet because that makes the game go 'hell no' and I can't select anything not on my taskbar so that's about it, bar restarting my laptop. I reopen the game, I can't get back in immediately because I'm still 'logged in'. This is incredibly frustrating.

This will happen several times, in bursts. Just prior to this post, I got disconnected from Ragnarok server 5 times in a span of half an hour, although this can be stretched out to be over 3 hours. There was a gap of about 10 mins between the 1st and 2nd, 5 mins between the 2nd and 3rd and the others were nigh instantaneous upon logging in.

This can occur during regular play and during dungeons. It also happens VERY often when initiating cutscenes, although this may be a coincidence.

I live in Lancashire, England and this has happened with ISPs Sky and Virgin Media.

[Melondra]

Got the Same problem and I live in Ohio so im pretty close to that Data center. Running a 1.5 GB/sec line getting 9k errors every 5-10 min this was not a issue in the past but for some odd reason now it is.

ISP:Roadrunner-Time Warner Cable 1.5GB/Sec

[Raist]

Got the Same problem and I live in Ohio so im pretty close to that Data center. Running a 1.5 GB/sec line getting 9k errors every 5-10 min this was not a issue in the past but for some odd reason now it is.

ISP:Roadrunner-Time Warner Cable 1.5GB/Sec

errm... 1.5Gb/sec? The highest speed I've seen mentioned on their forums has been 300Mb/sec (the Ultimate tier--Gigabit tiers have been projected into 2016 for metro areas, but haven't seen reports of a rollout or even test market yet?). And Ohio in general has been knackered up for quite some time. If it wasn't circular routing, it's been issues at various headends. Lots of infrastructure problems preventing people from getting consistent speeds they've paid (mostly plans above the 20/2 Turbo speeds), problems with channel alignments and ingress within certain ranges that causes modems to get knocked off during peak usage times. If it's been a problem that can plague cable broadband, you can pretty much find an instance of it happening in Ohio the last year or so, and with the MAXX rollouts it's getting worse and worse (Austin, TX, LA, and NYC have been giving them fits as well). MsRaye and a few others have been documenting Ohio's nightmares quite extensively on the TWC forums.

As for the OP, that sounds suspiciously like something might be going on with your hardware that may need to be looked into. Just seems odd that you have to reboot a system to recover from a network issue. Something happening remotely like that (be it on SE's end or enroute) should not be causing such behavior. May want to go through the Windows event logs to see if there are other errors getting trapped around the times you start experiencing your rash of disconnects. May want to check your modem's logs as well.

Otherwise, you guys may want to check your routing when things are going downhill for you. It's fairly consistently tied to issues occurring in route for the majority of cases, and isn't isolated to just FFXIV either. Other services are being impacted by this, and it has been getting increasingly worse since early summer when internet usage took off suddenly. ISP's just haven't been able to get the updates to their systems and/or peering/transit agreements fast enough to stay ahead of the congestion. We've been on TWC-SC's butt for nearly a year about such details, and they JUST finally started some upgrades at the cable plants this week. My modem bounced last night and I'm now bonding 8/4 channels over 8/1...looking like they are slowly getting things in place for either a new channel alignment and/or speed increases for the Carolinas soon (we hope).

Regardless of the width of our broadband though... the issue is our latency and packet loss. All that bandwidth goes to waste with a game that barely crosses the 128k bandwidth mark for the most part, and if latency is spiking all over the map causing delayed/dropped/retransmitted packets. That's the only reason we are looking forward to the speed increases--more ports and such made available to us so that the traffic gets thinned out. Lowering the congestion is what is needed most of all at this point.