Lag So Bad Right Now Game is Unplayable

[Lithera]

This seems to happen with every patch and with some maintenances too. I have a funny feeling what this is is when the Data Center servers are all hard rebooted it reset their connection to the internet and when they're turned back on, while they don't get fresh IP addresses (they appear to be static) they will potentially get different pathing through the ISP and Tier 1 networks. Before the patch you had a clean path to the Data Center. After the patch the new path is taking you through a node that is failing. You could also try a reinstall as well in case the patching process corrupted some networking code.

[Chiramu]

With my shite Australian internet I am not having problems with lag on tonberry. Maybe there are some problems with the NA datacentres?

[TheJarvisMan]

I have been getting kicked from the game with error 90k every 5 minutes for the past couple of days. The game is pretty much unplayable for me. I'm not having this issue with any other game. I'm streaming football just fine. Skype quality is great.

[Lithera]

I have been getting kicked from the game with error 90k every 5 minutes for the past couple of days. The game is pretty much unplayable for me. I'm not having this issue with any other game. I'm streaming football just fine. Skype quality is great.

Just as an FYI, streaming video isn't a good comparison because it buffers like mad. You could lose packets all over and the stream wouldn't even hiccup, but yes the fact your other games are fine is indicative of crappy routing to the NA Datacenter

[Lithera]

Over here in NA we have to deal with a near monopolistic Tier 1 ISP (High Level ISP that sells internet bandwith to the ISPs WE buy it from) called Level3. They are notorious for shitty routing and bad nodes (think train hub for internet data). They infuriate the lower tier ISPs (Time Warner etc.) and by extension consumers with this crap. It doesn't seem like anything will ever be done about it unless they can someone be found in violation of antitrust laws or the Consumer Protection Act. In comparison Japan has excellent Tier 1 service so this is an issue rarely seen on the JP Data Center. Some latency issues (bad ping)? Yes. Actual lag (jerky movement, disconnects, unresponsive abilities) not so much.

[Naelle]

Taken mid instance where everything was completely frozen for over 2 minutes.

[RakaMaimhov]

Taken mid instance where everything was completely frozen for over 2 minutes.

If a train bound for Philadelphia leaves Chicago at 8 pm and travels 65 mph, how soon will a train leaving Chicago reach Toronto traveling at 27 kph. Both trains were carrying 72 tons of tomatoes but the second train calls them love apples instead and uses kilograms instead of tons.

Speedtest does absolutely nothing for showing the status of the electronic path from your console/pc/home network to the game servers actually is as the server it is testing likely isn't routed the same through the infrastructure.

[Raist]

Taken mid instance where everything was completely frozen for over 2 minutes.

Ummm...that's a test result to a server in Kansas City, Missouri... Less then 50 miles away from you. No way indicative of your QoS communicating with the game servers all the way up and over in Montreal, Canada. Fewer hops, shorter distance, less chance of hitting high congestion along one if the 7 paths available for getting into Montreal.

And before anyone says it...it's not your bandwidth at play here...it's about higher latency, packet loss, and forced retransmits when those two factors come into the picture. That is the measure of "speed" at issue hear--response times for less than 128Kb per second of data that is transferred on average.

[Sheele]

I am getting 5-20 second drops in R and after 2.4 the lag has made the game unplayable.
I just got off the phone with my ISP, connection PC to them is fine, from them to SE's servers it's fine.
But they did say there was an issue with choppy data coming from SE's NA servers.
My ping is 5ms to the servers in Canada... But the data coming out is unstable this is fully SE problem!

[Icefall]

Client: PC
ISP: AT&T DSL (this isn't the same as u-verse to my understanding)

I've been having really atrocious lag hitting for a few days now since the last emergency maintenance. 90k's, receiving and sending alternating 0 until both are 0 (then I get 90k'd), server reliant menus (retainers, friend lists, etc) slow to load, players stopping then zipping ahead. This is in instances as well as in the open world, popular and fairly empty zones. My speedtests still show my numbers as normal for up and down, I'm able to run other services and sites like YouTube and Netflix with no interruptions as this is happening. I've tried resetting modem, router, and pc, but this is still persisting for a few days now.