Constant lag and disconnects

[Driven]

I live in IL also. I don’t have Comcast, but I am having occasional connection problems.
In regards to connection issues, I wonder if it’s the deep freeze we are in right now.
I usually notice connection problems while I am in the Golden Saucer.

[Bashum]

If you don't want to wait for squeenix to fix it, you could sign up for 1 month (hopefully fixed by then) of a good VPN provider, and route through another US state.

Express VPN or nord VPN are both good, and add very little latency.

[LalaRu]

Last days I got a weird situation: all fine when in cities, maps and around, but heavy lags in duties, and no lag in potd (isn't that a duty too?).

Asked my duty mates there and they confirmed it was not just me.

[Kaoru_Nagisa]

Had an odd situation last night where I was constantly disconnecting while hanging out in a friend's FC room - whereas the entire day before that, and even a few hours of being in there, I had been perfectly fine and stable. But around 9pm CST I just started randomly dcing and not even in similar intervals; one time it was 10 minutes, another 5, another 3, then back to 5... etc. It was really frustrating and I finally just went to bed, but I don't understand why I suddenly started dcing so much after a perfect connection all day.

[Mesarthim]

For me since near the start of Stormblood (shortly after) I get an extra 100-120 latency to the servers on top of my normal 100 in the afternoon (HST). The problem is entirely on NTT since my network is unaffected. I tested a vpn and it reported up to a 60% connection improvement as the latency shoots way back down and even prevents the occasional packet loss from NTT.

Always the same period of the day. Maybe not the exact same start/end and duration but it happens every single day.

Kinda sad when I can lag more from Hawaii to California than eastern Canada.

For those getting disconnected, I was in your boat when the data center was in its old location. US internet just plain sucks (and is almost certainly that awful San Jose node)

[Alleo]

Seems to be a problem on SEs side, since we have thread for us EU players where different people from different countries and providers had problems since at least 4.15. If so many people from different providers have these problems I kinda doubt that this is on our side, especially since everything else seems to run fine.

Hope they fix that because its honestly destroying the game a bit for me.

[Akimori]

Comcast in Michigan here

I will say this: Ive been a customer of comcast for almost 5 years now and I've never had this lagging garbage until AFTER SE decided to move the game's servers to California (I forgot where it was before, but wasn't it in a more centralized location...?)

Overwatch runs fine, Elsword is fine,warframe, GW2, OSU, etc etc. It only affects SE and when I ran a tracert, my ping was dropping a noticeable amount of packets on its way to the servers. So, whatever ISP SE is using, they either need to drop it in favor of another one or move the servers back towards a centralized location. I'll take 3 days of downtime over lagging every night from 10 pm est to about 1 am est any day. I even thought it was comcast and upgraded my internet to the fastest package they could give me just last week :/

This makes raiding unbearable...I shouldn't have to tether my computer to my phone for stable internet

[Callinon]

Comcast in Michigan here

I will say this: Ive been a customer of comcast for almost 5 years now and I've never had this lagging garbage until AFTER SE decided to move the game's servers to California (I forgot where it was before, but wasn't it in a more centralized location...?)

It was in Montreal. They moved from the far eastern side of the continent to the far western side.

[Akimori]

It was in Montreal. They moved from the far eastern side of the continent to the far western side.

I miss when it was there. I use to be able to actually enjoy the game without having to worry about rubber banding, lag, or disconnects during raid :x

Makes healing 100000x harder than it should be

[The-Real-Link]

While it's not ideal, you could try testing out a VPN service like Pingzapper or such. Usually very cheap and it's solved any lag on my end (Michigan, Comcast). I've been pinging better going straight to CA now that the servers are moved but up to Montreal I was an unfortunate member of having to route through Level 3.