Bad lag again with NTT's NA server network

[Nekoyurei]

Getting the same thing here. I was in a raid, and it seemed like everyone was running and stopping, running and stopping, and I couldn't click on any commands.

[Rehayem]

What a damn joke

[StouterTaru]

Same thing here, people rubber-banding around, interactions take several seconds to process, etc

[Kalania]

having the same problem, game was acting normally when I was on earlier.

[CammyWinters]

I dont know why Square Enix wont acknowledge or talk about this. Its really frustrating to not know if this is a permanent thing or if its being worked on.

Im just going to let my sub expire in December because i cant take this anymore. This is ridiculous

[Error1355]

Just today started noticing unplayable lag at times, found this topic. Trace routes show lag at the same place as others complaining here.

It's the worst knowing I can't fix this myself.

Edit: Just lagged so bad the game full disconnected. Cool.

[boldpaste2]

Same just started today and for most of my FC. Ironaically they are all spectrum users...

[NaiaLalita]

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.

Thank you for sharing this, I'm going to give it a try to help my own case!

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Getting the same thing here. I was in a raid, and it seemed like everyone was running and stopping, running and stopping, and I couldn't click on any commands.

Same thing here, people rubber-banding around, interactions take several seconds to process, etc

having the same problem, game was acting normally when I was on earlier.

Exact same for me today. I was working on 2 characters, just to do a couple roulettes each and set up Island Sanctuary for the week.

Character 1: I ran an Expert and set up Island Sanctuary workshops without issue. Queued into an Alliance Roulette (Syrcus Tower) and was put into Slideshow Disconnect mode. (I saw Glasys' enrage for the first time ever! I was not suffering alone) I could still TRY to use my own actions and spells, but none of it was hitting the servers. No damage dealt, no healing put out, no MP spent. But user-end displays, like cooldown counters and personal animations, were still playing just fine.
I think I ended up disconnecting 5 times total during that Syrcus Tower run, and I count my blessing that I got the roulette completion rewards despite it all. Not that I'm happy I had to get carried through an ARR Alliance Raid, but I would have been miserable to have kept trying that much, to work around something outside my control, and gotten nothing for it. You know?
I visited retainers, and my FC chest to deposit some items, and even donig that alone in a personal house was 3+ seconds per input/confirmation.

Character 2: After the grief I went through on Character 1, I didn't bother even trying any combat content. I just wanted to make sure my Island Sanctuary was set for the week. The lag persisted and it took me over 30 minutes to get my schedules set up, waiting for selections to update, presets to save, and menus and confirmations to respond. I still need to work on my PvP Series, so possibly missing my daily Frontlines Roulette is stressing me out right now.

[Ridge]

Yep, same here. The issue is on the serverside. European player on NA DC, just completely unplayable. Nothing we can do as players other than beg Square Enix to please at least acknowledge the issue, at best tell us what they're doing to fix the issue. Maybe even butter us up with some free days (totallynotjustbecauseineedafewmoredaystogrindsomething)

[Kalania]

Crossing my fingers, it seems back to normal to me. (I am on cox internet btw)

Nope: I spoke too soon. It acted normal for 10 minutes than lagged and kicked me from the game.