Unusual Lag Spikes?

[Cyrusskorrey]

Comcast Indiana east chicago, ive been having lag and connection issues since patch 3.1 went live.

[Dotsusama]

I've had this problem since Friday. I have Comcast too, and I'm in Chicago, and as soon as it leaves the city and hits the Level3 point (hop 4) I get "request timed out". Lost packets all over, 2 second delays. It made even chocobo racing a rubber-banding nightmare.

Tonight I had the same issues, so I installed VyprVPN on a recommendation for alternatives to WTFast. I first tried NY's server but while I got better packet reception the ping was not much better. Picking the Canada server (in Toronto) and my experience smoothed out substantially. I'm going to have to see how it looks after maintenance, but unless S-E harasses Level3 for whatever is causing this traffic jam, I doubt anything will improve.

EDIT: also to anyone who wants to tracert to Excalibur the IP I used as a reference point is 199.91.189.35

[Raist]

EDIT: also to anyone who wants to tracert to Excalibur the IP I used as a reference point is 199.91.189.35

May want to verify what address you actually use once we can get back in game (resmon or netstat when fully logged in). The IP's got reshuffled with the opening of the new EU datacenter--many are now above 100. That .35 IP (amongst others in the lower ranges) are still responding to pings when the worlds have gone offline. They shouldn't be. The newer ones we've seen in play since the new EU datacenter opened are currently down as they should be.

[Dotsusama]

May want to verify what address you actually use once we can get back in game (resmon or netstat when fully logged in). The IP's got reshuffled with the opening of the new EU datacenter--many are now above 100. That .35 IP (amongst others in the lower ranges) are still responding to pings when the worlds have gone offline. They shouldn't be. The newer ones we've seen in play since the new EU datacenter opened are currently down as they should be.

That's with a fresh log-in. So, unless the resource monitor is lying, that's what I've got. And even tonight, though this guildhest went off without any noticeable latency issues, when I do tracert it STILL bugs out at that fourth hop...

EDIT: well despite the above, at least the symptoms appear to be gone. Here's my ping report. Cross my fingers that it stays like this.

Ping statistics for 199.91.189.35:
    Packets: Sent = 200, Received = 200, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 28ms, Maximum = 59ms, Average = 39ms

Nope STILL rubber-banding in Seal Rock, and this was even just 24-man. Even for a reset night it's never this bad. :|

[Azazua_azura]

ps3 player comcast playing on Jp

Weird lag spikes in instenced servers like chocobo races and verminion. Also random lag spikes in empty zones.

On my alt on sargatanas was getting lag in vesper bay.

[ArcMoon]

Northern Virginia, Comcast. Lag on Faerie in the open world for the last two days, especially bad starting in the evening it seems.

[Greyfrost]

Tonberry, had a several player including me lagging inside Thordan, but not outside Thordan, both our connections are fine.

[KazuneHypnotik]

I notice that the lag is at its peak during the evenings EST but not bad at all in the mornings. I was trying to play a few hours ago and couldn't because the lag was so bad. I ended up just calling it a night.

[Zumi]

I think they fixed it trace route showing no packet loss now.

[szalkerous]

Anyone been in game post-hotfix downtime that can verify if it is fixed?