I had to just go the extreme fix this myself.

I already had a VPN that I pay for that allows up to 5 concurrent connections. I setup my OPNsense router/firewall with an OpenVPN setup and any outbound traffic from my home network going to an IP within 204.2.28.0/22 gets sent out though my VPN. This would be the only way that I know of for console players to get around these ping problems. They would need a router that supports a VPN that has nodes to get around these bad pings. It took me some testing using the PC VPN client to find the best nodes for my VPN provider.

This is the ping stats for 1 hour (2023-12-26 @ 7 to 8:22pm EST) both normal and though VPN to the FF14 servers. Red & Green are pings though normal Internet. Purple & Green are though the VPN. You can see how the VPN is far more stable.



I have sent in many reports though their website with the data they want but it results in nothing ever changing. I forever need to use a VPN to play this game in the evenings.

P.S. the high and erratic pings only start once you're inside the NTT network within the last 4 hops. I have never had problems on any other game like this ever.