Bad lag again with NTT's NA server network

[Rehayem]

is anybody aware of any progress towards solving this or are we doomed to give up our mains and friends behind?

No response from SE or anything, so I think we're pretty doomed lol

[Buttons]

I am also a EU player on an NA server and the game is almost unplayable lately, it's heartbreaking.

I've been on a legacy server since 1.0 and my friends and my house are on Excalibur, I do not want to have to move servers.

[Asuka-Hykiri]

Seemed to clear up yesterday, now its back to 425ms :/

[Duayne]

Can also confirm this seems to be back. Was cleared up for me (at least during the times I played) for about a week

[chrishanner]

Same here, got back to normal the last four or so days, now its back to being awful again, yaaaaay

[Asuka-Hykiri]

It's been fine the last few days. But we'll see.

[Elpis]

Been unable to play for about 2 weeks, are the servers working again? Rather not spend money on a sub if I can't play the damn thing

[Rehayem]

Been unable to play for about 2 weeks, are the servers working again? Rather not spend money on a sub if I can't play the damn thing

It's been fine for the past 3-4 days for me (except for 1 day where it was awful). Not sure what gives. Sometimes I notice there's more "hoops" added, so to speak, that jump UK > US. Today I see it's FR > DE > US, all 3 being NTT.

[Patrickmanx]

Tha lag is back, been like this for 2 days.

[Janyd]

I thought the issues had returned for my ISP, but turns out a Windows Update caused the "service host network service" to have high network usage via "delivery optimization" in Windows 10.

Went to check my retainers and noticed my ping was above 110ms, so I did a traceroute and it showed much higher ms on nodes well before NTT, so that told me something else was afoot. Then I opened Task Manager, and saw the culprit was indeed a Windows program called "service host network service" was gobbling up way more bandwidth than necessary.

So, after some YouTube searches, I used the command prompt "sfc /scannow" and that cleared up some files that must've been corrupted during the recent Windows Patch Tuesday. Took a few minutes to run, so some patience was required.

One restart later, and my latency's back to normal for FFXIV (around 59 to 64 ms).

Not sure if that'll help anyone else here, but it never hurts to check your PC to see if any Windows Updates of late messed with something. Chances are, knowing Microsoft, that's always a possibility.