Frequent R0 lag spikes and freezing

[Bluetaro]

Getting hit hard too Arliman, right on schedule ~7 pacificish. I wish there was a way to find out how many players were logged in right now because I feel like the server load is what's causing us to lag specifically at this time.

[Orophin]

Updated my original post tonight:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...e-server/page2

SE really needs to get on the ball in fixing this. It may only be affecting a small portion of people, but this just can't be ignored.

[Burn]

I can't even play this game at night, every night I am constantly R0'ing while being perfectly fine during the day. I have cox cable isp, I can log on other online games and have no issue, I even logged on FFXI and not once did i R0.

We need some sort of response here, far too big of an issue imo.

[Ryfen]

I rarely post on these forums, but I have been around since closed beta for FF14. I can honestly say I need to add my name to this list. Ever since patch 1.19a, all I have gotten is r0. It doesn't matter where I am. Its to the point where I am unable to do any events, any quests, any kind of lvling at all. While I know things happen, this is just complete BS. I know its not my connection, did all the recommended adjustments SE has listed for troubleshooting, no results. I watch Netflix like a crackhead when I'm not gaming, and at peak times in the evening to nite hours I watch everything in HD. Had issues a while back and my cable modem took a dump and needed to be replaced...

If things keep going, I'm just going to have to take a break till patch 1.20 comes out and see if they fix this issue. Unfortunately I can't play this game the way it is.

Windows 7 32bit (latest updates)
ATi 5770 1g
4g ram
AMD Phenom IIx4 965 3.4ghz
500g HD
Wireless Network
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Melmond Server

[Ryfen]

O yeah, I'm also on Cox Communications. :/

[Bluetaro]

Ugh, notice that the majority of us here have the same ISP. T_T Question is, is there anything we can do on our end as users to improve the situation?

[Drako]

I really don't know what we can do at this point. It'd be nice if we got some kind of response from SE. I doubt contacting Cox, or the other ISPs that have popped up in this thread, would do any good. Sense its the only thing we are having trouble with they will likely say its not on their end. Because, what will they do, ping the modem, maybe even send someone out to your home even tho that isn't even where the problem is. Sense this is the only game that is experiencing a problem they will say its SEs problem.

Oh also I can confirm a significant issue with r0 tonight. It was tolerable/playable the last 4 nights or so. But it is back with a vengeance tonight. Takes me about 5x as long to complete crafting leves, if i can complete them at all without failing cause i was sitting there mid-craft doing nothing for 4 minutes. I'm certain they will find the problem on the servers and correct it. It's just how long will it take, it would be nice to have a time table on this problem, so we aren't setting here hoping it is going to be ok night after night, and then get that sinking feeling at 9pm CST when it starts doing the r0.

I will say that I'm slightly suspecting something with Cox.. I just did a ping to google.com 100 ping test, and i got several ms over 120ms... sigh I truely hate problems such as this.

[bird]

on cox here. never had r0ing trouble til 1.19 came out. just tried to do a mining leve @ iron lake. 10 minutes @ 1 node. please fix this soon. i can't play during peak time at all.

[Drako]

I'm truely starting to suspect our isp. I know it may do little good, but everyone should try calling them, and report a significant slowdown at nighttime on the connection. Id suggest probably not even mentioning the game, and simply let them know you've done pings to google or some other site, and are getting 120ms and such. sigh.. That may be playable for all other games we play, without us noticing much, but when you go across seas, that translates into some pretty bad connection.

[Burn]

Yeah, it seems to be between cox and SE somewhere, my connection is fine but when I connect to them it starts getting a little weird somewhere out west before it jumps over to japan.