Thread: Constant packet loss since patch 6.3

Originally Posted by NoctotheBard

Ever since 6.35 I've also had the same packet loss problem. I'm in the UK, running FFXIV on a PS5, using a Plusnet wireless fiberoptic broadband connection. All my other games (and general internet stability) are absolutely fine - just FFXIV that's playing up.

Was trying to play the game early today between 3-4pm and the lag was awful, every 30 seconds or so, until eventual the entire game would hang (really annoying when you're trying to glitch some housing furniture). After the game hanged 3 times in a row I had to give up in the end - the game is completely unplayable for me at the moment. The exact same thing happened with 6.3 a while back until they fixed it, so I guess they've broken whatever they broke previously again this time round.

FYI the hot fix they attempted earlier today hasn't fixed the problem <sigh>.

The "hotfix" maintenance last night was to add gp+9 to some crafting items, if their note is any indicator. Assuming we're thinking about the same thing. I was hopeful as well, but yeah no it's still awful. MCH for me at the moment is playable but incredibly aggravating to the point where I'm like "why bother." I will try using multiple different nodes on my VPN to ensure that the issue isn't just a bad route to the server on my end or something.

edit: nope, even with using a vpn to take different routes to the server, it's still got nutty packet loss. this is gross, man. put it back to the way it was before all this aiieeee

Having issues since the emergency maintenance. Am troubleshooting on my end but just throwing this out here in case it ends up being related.

I've also been experiencing periods of high server latency and timeouts since 6.35. It seemed stable last night, but today I've already been dropped twice with 90006 errors. Normal response time to my data center is ~70 ms, but during these periods of high latency it jumps to >250 ms with frequent timeouts and the game is essentially frozen during these times. The same issue persists from two different ISP connections, though one seems to be worse than the other.

Edit: I setup a script to run every 60 seconds that pings each of the NA data centers and records the results. They all seem to be having the same issue at the same times for me.

Same In UK on BT packet loss since 6.35 hotfix

Light, Odin here.
Was doing roulettes then 8pm GMT came around and I went into an Alliance Raid roulette (got Paradigms Breach) and I started experiencing lag. At first I thought it was my internet acting up but everything else was loading fine (youtube videos etc.).
All the players and the bosses would occasionally stop all movement then start, and it could last anywhere between 0.5-5 seconds every time it happened, though weirdly my GCDs were rolling fine, which lead to every fight being a game of mechanic anticipation.

Had to leave the instance after the third boss when I got the movement debuff during a lag spike and it stuck me in the wall because, despite moving to the correct place to not die; the debuff didn't wear off after the countdown...

Edit: Forgot to mention 3 of my FC mates had random bouts of packet loss like this too since 6.35. The 4 of us have different ISPs though one of them wasn't getting the major spikes like I was at the time of the AR so seems pretty random.
The spikes I had today seemed to clear up after an hour (from 8pm GMT-9:30ish GMT

EU light and Chaos are now having Issues for people on BT lines, tonight is horrendous , my EU alt (i live in the UK) has worse ping than my NA main, no clue if this is on BTs end or Squares but everyone with this issue is on BT

It's not just bt for whatever it's worth. I'm on comcast in NA and know people who aren't on comcast at all and are having the same issues.

whenever I do a traceroute to the game's na datacenter ip, things look fine until just before it arrives at crystal dc's 204.2.229.11 address. at the step just before reaching it, it times out. this happened on both attempts to examine the path I take to the server. Attempts to change this path by reconnecting via vpn or restarting the router did not resolve the issue.


edit: interestingly, at 4 am this request does not time out. my game has also been far less laggy at this hour.