high ping all of a sudden, exclusively in FFXIV

[w1ntermute]

so since yesterday i started experiencing kind of a high ping for me. usually im at 45-50ms, and since yesterday its around 130-150ms and more. i already tried doing a lot of stuff (like this post here for example)

Tracing route to 80.239.145.97 over a maximum of 30 hops

  1    <1 ms     2 ms    <1 ms  InnboxG84 [192.168.1.1]
  2     3 ms     2 ms     3 ms  100.92.0.1
  3     4 ms     4 ms     4 ms  as25513.asbr.router [212.188.6.45]
  4    14 ms     *        4 ms  mag9-cr03-be12.51.msk.mts-internet.net [212.188.6.44]
  5     6 ms     3 ms     *     mag9-cr02-be13.77.msk.mts-internet.net [195.34.53.206]
  6     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  7     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  8    24 ms    23 ms    23 ms  radio-cr01-ae3.0.hel.mts-internet.net [212.188.29.109]
  9    23 ms    24 ms    23 ms  213.248.88.28
 10    29 ms    30 ms    30 ms  sto-bb1-link.ip.twelve99.net [62.115.122.32]
 11   201 ms   219 ms   211 ms  kbn-bb5-link.ip.twelve99.net [62.115.134.78]
 12    59 ms    51 ms    51 ms  ffm-bb1-link.ip.twelve99.net [62.115.143.32]
 13   140 ms     *        *     ffm-b11-link.ip.twelve99.net [62.115.124.117]
 14   149 ms   138 ms   121 ms  squareenix-ic-369631.ip.twelve99-cust.net [80.239.195.85]
 15   106 ms     *      126 ms  80.239.145.241
 16   139 ms   144 ms   136 ms  80.239.145.97

[Dorfstance]

This happens every single major patch and is an issue that SE creates.

It mysteriously resolves after about the first week of each major patch as well, so all you normally have to do is wait or use a VPN.

I've seen easily 30 major patches and this exact issue has triggered on 100% of them. So don't go letting SE or their sycophants gaslight you into thinking something unusual is happening on your end. It isn't.

[Xupojoonyohl]

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[RezRanger]

It's been pretty bad for me too and I have no clue why.

[Votraftur]

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