Bad lag again with NTT's NA server network

[Pyrrus]

Adding my voice in here. I am also an AT&T customer and I am East coast. Up until today I was running around 75-85ms steadily for nearly a year and now as of today when I do a check, I am around 130-135ms. Pretty big jump.

It was like this before around a year ago and contacting AT&T as an individual will do nothing. I have tried. Square Enix needs to contact AT&T (or NTT if they are responsible from what I am reading in the thread) and tell them it is affecting their customer base to be taken seriously (something an AT&T told me when I was on the call was that they can't do anything from the individual complaints on their end) or figure something out like they did before. When this happened a year ago, I remember there was a big announcement at some point and then something Square did fixed it. I am hoping that SE will fix it quickly this time.

The only temporary solution is to pay for a VPN until SE contacts AT&T -- or NTT as I've come to learn from this thread -- again to work things out like however they did it last time when it was big enough they put out an announcement. I did this before and it worked well to bring my numbers from around 130 down to around 90. I used mudfish since it was the cheapest I could find.