Bad lag again with NTT's NA server network

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I just registered my account to the forum so I could post this, but I'm experiencing the issue at a novel time of day now. I don't have a traceroute to post because I don't know the next thing about how to do that. For me the lag has always started sometime between midnight and 02:00 AM in my time zone (Eastern US), but about 15 minutes ago it began over 12 hours ahead of that range. This is the first time over the past week that I have personally had this happen in the middle of the day, so I'm praying it isn't indicative of the situation actively worsening. I'm frustrated of course, but I'm not so frustrated yet that I'd get a separate subscription to have a VPN only so I can actually use my XIV subscription. Here's hoping it doesn't persist, and lord willing that Square Enix gets back to us about this more substantially.