Quote Originally Posted by Nemo5990 View Post
Well If they setup a proxy server that will make things Lag alot more , and cracks aren't time based it's just they appear on your screen late an end faster to which give less time to respond . FFXIV loads in chunks which I believe is the chunk the player stands in and 1 chunk in all directions so 9chunks in total and i also believe those nine chunk are possibly 1 grid square it may vary in areas idk this is all just assumed but it does work that way in some areas you can possible run through 4 chunks at 1 time which could cause latency issues that would happen when you run through the 4way spots on the map grid like an crossroad
Without trying to get tooo technical:

Without proxy:
Home -> Hop -> Hop -> Hop -> Hop -> (10 more hops) -> Server!

With proxy:
Home -> Hop -> Hop -> Hop -> Proxy -> Server!

The idea is the proxy is:
- Optimized with a dedicated/optimal link to server
- Data is sent from proxy to server with better configuration (QoS/etc)
- Proxy can act as 'pseudo client' for latency checking and optimisation

It can get pretty silly on how it can be optimized (and expensive both from hardware and software) but it is an option.