Request for information: ISPs and P2P throttling

[Demikz]

BT
UK, South East
Evenings 6pm-12am
I did contact them regarding the issue but was given no reference number.

[Orophin]

- Name of ISP: Cox Communications
- Country of Residence: USA
- When does the problem occur (always, only during specific times?): Constantly

[Undrentide]

- EE / ORANGE
- UK
- whenever it reaches 7pm every single night time till about 12am my connection starts to throttle & lag and the game starts to be unresponsive,

- Abilities can have upto 5 mins delay.
- Zoning takes forever and sometime stuck on the black loading screen.
- Interacting with NPCs or Quests can take 5+ mins before the interaction starts and ends.

im definately getting throttled and when i force close the game due to these things just not responding im locked out the game for the rest of the day due to server traffic pretty much every night from 7pm - 12am

Exactly my issue...i know ive got an hour left to play today after whats been a pretty good day

[terbo72]

ISP: Charter
Country: United States (Washington state)
When: Evenings between 9pm and 1am most often, but it can happen anytime.

[Duke0]

Not sure if this will help everyone but I've been able to fix my throttling by forwarding the ports listed here.
http://portforward.com/english/route...antasy_XIV.htm

I'm now able to play at "peak times" when normally the game was unplayable!

[Launched]

ISP: BT
Country: Northern Ireland
Time: After 7pm GMT

[Tassel]

Originally Wanadoo, which became Orange and is now EE.
UK
Late evenings (till I bought a VPN for the month)

[GetsugaSylph]

Name of ISP: Orange/EE
- Country: UK
- When: bang on 18:00~19:00 until 00:00~01:00
All other hours seem lagless.
You can see via some quotes below that Orange is clearly throttling FFXIV and this must be sorted.

EDIT: this lag has not returned since the patch! haven't felt the lag and have been able to play at all hours!! Thank you SE if this was your doing!!!

- Orange/EE
- UK
- After 6pm GMT onwards till about 11 or 12pm GMT and this happens every night, I play many hours during the daytime no problem at all but as soon as it hits 6pm I get a massive noticeable lag and not being able to click on npc's and being stuck in menus for up to 5mins at times.

Orange
England
7-12PM

EE (Orange)
UK
7pm till about 1am - you can set your watch by it! - The World is Hyperion if that makes any sort of difference.
my ISP are useless - all they advise is call their call centre who tell you to reset the router.

[Velo_Vandore]

- EE (orange)
- UK
- 19:00 - 00:30 approx
- Raised with EE telephone customer support but reference number not given. Was told a note would be made and the issue may or may not be resolved depending on whether the issue becomes "acknowledged" by EE.

[Fennekin117]

Frontier Communications http://www.frontier.com/

US

Happens at random.