Horrible lag today EU (light DC)

[Straticus]

It's making the game unplayable for me today. Doesn't seem to be on my end as other internet applications are loading fine. Have heard from some others that are having the same lag.

[LycanFayn]

Chaos (Cerberus, but not relevant) - Had a Thaleia run which took 48m (avg 35, my previous max was 40). +0.5s lag on skill input, reports of resurrection just not taking, dualcast not proccing, mechanics not being visible/appearing all at once. Standard lag issues but across the entire raid implying something serverside. No disconnections though.

[Shikiseki]

Hmm me and someone had that issue yesterday evening (around 6-9pm ST) where we had up to 3second of rubberband lag.
The strange part is that the other 2 that we did the criterion with weren't lagging at all. All of us are spread across europe (uk, germany, denmark, croatia) so it's a very strange case.

It does remind me of the ddos that only seemingly affected random people from time to time and the time would match too.

Will have to check if the same happens in about 4-5 hours from now on...

[Kasdeja]

Returned to the game 4 days ago and issues are happening all the time , not good so close to the expansion ....

[Sheddo]

Having 100% packet loss on EU datacenters since yesterday, can't connect without VPN whatsoever

unlucky

[Leeroy]

Having lag during prime time (6-11 PM CEST) every day for more than a year here. Caused by congested twelve99 routes. Try running a traceroute to 80.239.145.101 and see if the cause is twelve99 as well.

Consider sending a report via official form: https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...a451d5a8daa66f

[gyugyu312]

Having lag during prime time (6-11 PM CEST) every day for more than a year here. Caused by congested twelve99 routes. Try running a traceroute to 80.239.145.101 and see if the cause is twelve99 as well.

Consider sending a report via official form: https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...a451d5a8daa66f

same here. its twelve99. what is that?? the request is timing out there and the ping is jumping way way up. was 250 constantly for months and yesterday it started becoming nuts at 300-320 with multiple request timeouts.

[Caitlinzulu]

Sounds like some pathways between server and players are overloaded. Not something that SE can do much about unfortunately.
If a vpn improves matters i would say server is fine since all a vpn does is change the path between you and the server. You still connect to the same server that now can connect to you.
Cause of overload may be reduced capacity of some backbone, abnormal traffic on some pathways like ao ddos attack on any server located on or near your route.

[DarkArvan]

Got the same Problem, submitted Traceroute via Support Form and hoping SE can do something about it.
But it seems the routing at Twelve99 is the problem in the evening hours.

Dawntrail launch will be fantastic with all the returning players then...