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
what Asiaine meant are dedicated relay hosts with a main link to the primary server where ever it may be. While this does indeed work very well for latency & Ping improvements. it comes packaged with redundancy issues, should the relay fail for whatever reason uplink to the primary server is cut.

the internet prides itself on being a redundant pain in the ass. should one route fail to return requested information the internet will automatically find another route for that information to pass though. a relay host eliminates that advantage.