Request for information: ISPs and P2P throttling

[Kaliven]

- Name of ISP
Comcast
- Country of Residence
East Coast Florida, United States
- When does the problem occur (always, only during specific times?)
It has been constant since 12/31/2013
- Reference number from your ISP, if you raised this matter with them
None but I have run the following troubleshooting.

Before December 21st I had no problems playing at all, I went away on vacation, and played during my vacation, but from a different part of the country.

When I returned home, I booted it up, and started having 2-5+ second lag times on combines, mining, and combat, near constantly, with occasional larger spikes.

Thinking it was my stuff I did the following troubleshooting:

I have run ping tests and speed tests, and determined my ISP is running fine for all other applications, downloads and streaming.

My last test was to put it on another Gaming PC to eliminate hardware, it did the same thing.

I will attempt to connect with Hotspot shield tonight and see if that fixes any throttling.

I am halfway through my "free month" I was considering subscribing but if I have to deal with this I probably won't.

[Shikiseki]

- Name of ISP
Vodafone
- Country of Residence
Germany
- When does the problem occur (always, only during specific times?)
It's not always, though it started since 2.1 and it's only affecting certain times for around 20minutes. Usually around 5pm UTC+1.

I have to say it really gets annoying lately but it got really apparent after 2.1

[Ravnis]

- Name of ISP
Verizon FiOS
- Country of Residence
New Jersey, United States
- When does the problem occur (always, only during specific times?)
It has been intermittent issues ever since 2.1 patch. Randomly happens in all aspects of the game.
- Reference number from your ISP, if you raised this matter with them
No reference number needed. Reset my box, router, reaquired ip address, was dynamically changed by Verizon and the problem persists.

I picked up a ping route program and it is slightly better if I hop across the country and back to the SE Data Center but it now causes 90K errors when doing this.

I did a traceroute prior to patch and had 3 hops before hitting SE Data centers, after patch 2.1 I am now getting 15 or more hops.

[Claud]

- Name of ISP
Verizon FiOS
- Country of Residence
New York, United States
- When does the problem occur (always, only during specific times?)
Always since the 2.1 patch.
- Reference number from your ISP, if you raised this matter with them
None raised yet.

[Dalavon]

ISP: Verizon FIOS

Location: Long Beach, CA.

When: Since 12-24-13 I have been getting bad lag, rubber banding etc. I play on PS3, and had no issues with the game at all prior to that period.

With the update that hit tonight, nothing has changed, in fact I fear it may have worsened.
I hope this issue can be resolved, I love playing the game, but I fear I'm holding my group back from progressing t5.

[RamStormrage]

ISP: PLDT
Location: Laguna, Philippines
When: Seems to occur at random times and may last from a few minutes to several hours

Help needed! Same with the above player, I have been getting bad lag post 2.1.

[Decrith]

ISP: PLDT
Location: Philippines
When: Started happening after the FATE Hotfix Patch. Occurs 11pm to 4pm, and 7 to 12mn GMT +8 (Japan is +9)

I know of a lot of people who are having the exact same issue who happen to have the same ISP, I tried calling the ISP but the one who took the call only guided me into stuff that might have been the problem and couldn't find anything.

[Calyanare]

ISP: Verizon FiOS
Location: Tampa, FL
When: Always, since 26 December, and gets worse during peak hours (~3pm to midnight PST). Before Christmas, I had no lag whatsoever; afterwards, it is almost constant.

Every 30 seconds or so, in-game lag spikes causing the screen to freeze for 1-3 seconds and then fast-forward to catch up. AoE/boss effect indicators not showing up on screen at all before the effect hits (this is especially amusing/infuriating with Twintania's Fireballs and Conflagrations, and Titan Extreme's everything). End-game content mostly unplayable.

[ThaddeusMaximus]

ISP: Verizon Fios 50/25
Location: Riverside, California USA
When: Every 30 seconds or so, in-game lag spikes causing the screen to freeze for 1-3 seconds and then fast-forward to catch up. AoE/boss effect indicators showing up too late for me to react on screen before the effect hits. This just started about a week or so ago. End-game content mostly unplayable.

[MomoCakes]

ISP: Cox Communications
Location: San Diego, CA USA
When: Occurs during crafting, gathering, doing end game events(Coil, Ultima EX, Primals EX, or crowded areas)

This issue has started AFTER the Patch 2.1 I did not have this issue previously and my husband and I and our roommate all play FFXIV together at the same time in our house and prior to 2.1 did NOT have this issue. I have spoken to them I upgraded my modem to docsis 3 dual band and upgraded my internet service as well with hopes to solve this but the problem still persists, which leads me to believe it is not an ISP issue here is my speed test. http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3208852657