Thread: Constant packet loss since patch 6.3

Issue seems fixed for me too,

I decided to try pinging my server directly rather than the DC and latency now reflects my ping, although i suspect my issue is different

Mine has just been getting worse, and worse, and worse since 6.3 and tragically more worse since 6.35. NA Faerie. Now my skills aren't even going off at all. When you're healing Agalia or Eurphosyne, you really do need to be able to use skills lol.

My connection is fine, it's def not that, it's been fine for years and is fine in other games. Whatever this new network compression protocol thing is they switched to in 6.3 or 6.35 clearly is not quite up to the task for everyone.

Tracert still shows the same results - the last hop before the DC keeps timing out. And one of the intermediaries frequently does too. Normally, before this issue started, there would be something in the range of 35-37 ms on hop 11 and no packet loss. Current packet loss is 5% (in a sample of 100). Sure is lower than a few days ago but still noticeable.

I'm also having issues periodically, seems to be completely random when it happens, most days it's completely fine, but today I'll get random lag spikes and the game is completely unplayable for hours. I'm in the UK using Virgin Media. it's been since 6.35 too, didn't have any issues before 6.35

Just throwing my voice in this as well. I actually unsubbed specifically because of this issue, though the form does not let me tell them sufficiently why. Day after day, group content requiring reliable input is just unplayable due to windows of 1 to 30+ seconds where a small amount of packet loss in an NTT routing node results in the client halting any updates until it eventually fast-forwards up to the current state. No other internet issues present at the time, and previous to 6.35 this did not occur. The times can be correlated to when I detect packet loss on pings to those NTT nodes.

I will be monitoring to see if this ever gets fixed again (reverting to stateless compression), but for now I cannot play reliably and must stop my subscription.

This has been affecting me since 6.35 as well (UK-based). Last hop before the data centre on a traceroute always times out. It's usually playable, but it's clear there's some lag (I currently get better pings to the US datacentres than I do to the EU ones). But sometimes everything in game freezes for 1-20 seconds, even if the rest of the internet connection remains online and perfectly stable - there's then a 50/50 chance that either the game catches back up, or boots me from the server. I've already had two solo Eureka Orthos runs ended by such disconnects, which is always fun.

Complete lack of acknowledgement is a bit worrying now - not even a note to say it's being investigated or worked on. Genuinely worried this will ruin raiding if it persists until the new tier in 6.4.

Well gonna throw my voice in as well. I have the problems for almost 7 months for now. It dissapoints me that this issue is still not fixed. You get the feeling the opposite is the matter that it only gets worse. Especially in the evening times and on Sundays this game has become unplayable for me becuase of just lagging around + input lag.