Really bad lag in NA servers

[Lizellea]

Is anyone else on NA servers having horrible lag in all content? I switched to an alt on another region and everything was fine. But as soon as I come back to NA its so bad that I can barely move or crash just taking a step.

[Jillian]

I'm getting a bunch of delay input lag as well.

[Coletergeist]

There's been a high number of DCing everywhere; you're not alone. Been like that for a few days now.

[Lizellea]

Ok so I am not going crazy.

[Rehayem]

Yeah, lag is awful, can't even craft properly without it failing or run some dungeons.

[Eenkalzet]

Greetings fellow Eorzean,

I'm sorry to hear that you have been experiencing these connectivity issues. Does the lagging lead to a full disconnect from the game? If you do get disconnected, do you get any error messages? I would also like to ask on what platform you are playing the game on and if you are using a wired or wireless connection?

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[YunYunHakusho]

Greetings fellow Eorzean,

I'm sorry to hear that you have been experiencing these connectivity issues. Does the lagging lead to a full disconnect from the game? If you do get disconnected, do you get any error messages? I would also like to ask on what platform you are playing the game on and if you are using a wired or wireless connection?

We hope we can be of assistance with this. Thank you for visiting the FINAL FANTASY XIV Technical Support Forums!

Hi, I'm not the OP of this thread, but I've been having issues with lagging in this game for the past week too. I don't know why even, because it's been fine before that.

The lagging does not lead me to disconnect from the game fully. But it makes playing instanced dungeons or raids extremely difficult/frustrating because the connection would stutter. If I'm in a crowded area with people walking around it would look like they're constantly stopping and going. I'm playing on PC and am using an Ethernet cord, so wired.

Like with OP, I don't have this problem in the JP servers, at least.

[XionBarzhad]

Greetings fellow Eorzean,

I'm sorry to hear that you have been experiencing these connectivity issues. Does the lagging lead to a full disconnect from the game? If you do get disconnected, do you get any error messages? I would also like to ask on what platform you are playing the game on and if you are using a wired or wireless connection?

We hope we can be of assistance with this. Thank you for visiting the FINAL FANTASY XIV Technical Support Forums!

Also not the OP but feel it best to just respond here instead of creating additional compounding threads.
Since Tuesdays (5/9/23) long NA Data Center maintenance, I have been having a lot of intermittent lag within instanced areas. Doesn't seem to matter which instanced content I'm participating in (observed in dungeon roulettes, alliance raid roulettes, Eureka, Eureka Orthos). Behavior will appear as if I'm on an unstable connection and everything on screen will just freeze in place randomly from one second and at worse up to five seconds. No disconnects have occurred as a result of this but it has made gameplay content difficult if not impossible to complete since time sensitive mechanics cannot be reliably handled. This behavior was not experienced at all prior to the latest patch and my setup has not changed after that patch.

Platform: PC (Standalone Client)
Connection Type: Wired, Fiber Internet
Region: NA (US Central)
Game Server: Aether/Cactuar

[Sparkl]

I can confirm that I'm also experiencing this lag ever since the last maintenance. It seems to get worse the longer I'm online without restarting and can be bad enough to be unplayable, making even single weaves impossible. I am on a stable connection, no external programs are lagging, ping tests and speed tests come back normal. It is only FF14.

[rainichan]

I'll add in my issues as well; only really happened during PvP matches when there's a lot of people on my screen. Sending numbers are usually normal, but Receiving numbers will rocket into the 10k or higher, and there was some insane input lag that I don't think I've ever had happen since we were on the old JP servers before migrating back in 2.x. No disconnects, but it's hard to play content when you're lagging bad enough to think you'll disconnect.

PC Standalone Client, hardwired.