Request for information: ISPs and P2P throttling

[Raz3r1]

ISP: Bredbandsbolaget
Country: Sweden

Started about 3 hours ago and its completely unplayable, never happened before

[Karloski]

ISP: BT

Country of residence: England

When does the problem occur: 7pm - 11pm. Others with BT haven't however stated any issues over the weekend. This is probably because we've yet to hit a proper weekend of playing (discount early access, we all know it was barely accessible).
However, I did manage to get in to play on Sunday evening and this was when I first noticed my down time. According to the BT website (http://bt.custhelp.com/app/answers/d...andusagepolicy), 'peak times' for the weekend is 9am to midnight, which is basically the whole day.

Platform: PC

[DragoVaughn]

Name - Frontier
Country - United States
Occurrence - Always

Seem to get mini lag spikes randomly constantly def worse in the evenings though, have a 3.1 Megabit connection which is the best in this area, but that should be enough if the game is all i'm running at the time. Def seems like they're throttling it.

pinging google, my connection is stable even when i hit lag spikes in game. Really has to be SE's end or some connection issue between Frontier and them.

[PugCondoin]

ISP: Orange
Country: UK
Occurrence: Every day between 18:00 and 21:00-22:00 GMT

[Liamrir]

ISP: BT (British Telecom)
Country: United Kingdom
Time of day: Heavy lags from 7pm (GMT+1) which makes the game unplayable, usually stops around 11pm.

No lag during any other time of day or night however I am dreading the coming weekend

Would be good to hear whether SE plan to contact BT to address this issue. I have tried to speak to them but they are a bunch of useless idiots who are convinced that running speedtest proves that this is not a problem on their network

[PugCondoin]

ISP: BT (British Telecom)
Country: United Kingdom
Time of day: Heavy lags from 7pm (GMT+1) which makes the game unplayable, usually stops around 11pm.

No lag during any other time of day or night however I am dreading the coming weekend

Would be good to hear whether SE plan to contact BT to address this issue. I have tried to speak to them but they are a bunch of useless idiots who are convinced that running speedtest proves that this is not a problem on their network

Check out this thread: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...t-UK-ISP-BT-EE

There have been a couple of responses from the mods, stating that they are currently working with BT and Orange/EE on this issue.

this thread itself was started by a Mod, so that they can get an idea of the ISPs that treat the game as P2P software and therefore throttle it.

Rest assured, friend. They're working on it

[Yannie]

ISP: Verizon Fios
Location: Virginia, United States
Started: Since the last patch.
Occurrence: All the time.

[Ragnab]

ISP: BT
Country: UK
Time: Seems to be around 7pm 'till midnight for me.

[BeardedLady]

WOW / Sigecom
USA, Indiana
Minimal amount during Beta 4, Constant lag since EA

[Wolfduke]

I'm under no illusions that GMs will reply to any thread - but on the offchance they MIGHT, what sort of timeframe are we looking at to get this sorted?