Quote Originally Posted by Caitlinzulu View Post
To be honest are you shure its SE's fault? if so wouldnt other datacenters also suffer from that issue?
I've read on here that the US-canada backbone connection isnt the best leading to a lot of issues. Couldnt your problems be located there?
The fact that other games or general internet is fine means little since they use other pathways. The only thing you can be relatively shure of is that your own installation or local provider isnt at fault.

I know at times connection was really bad for me when chaos datacenter was still in canada but all issues seem to have been resolved by the migration to europe.
Square Enix is the only entity that will have any pull with Level3 which is where the bottleneck is occurring. Companies that run major internet backbones don't deal with individual internet users, they deal with the ISPs and companies who are pushing lots of traffic through their networks. Until Square Enix puts the pressure on Level3 by threatening to move their datacenter elsewhere then we're all stuck with this problem. Square of course does not want to have to resort to moving their datacenter as it would cost them an immense amount of money. Instead, those of us routed through Level3 (which is a very large number of people, even if not the "majority"), are instead just stuck twiddling our thumbs waiting on SE to do something, ANYTHING. As of now, they have not even posted an update to let their customers know they're even working on the problem at all.