Request for information: ISPs and P2P throttling

[tjharlow]

Optimum Online
Long Island, New York, United States
Dungeons are unplayable.

[Rapture]

ISP: Surewest Broadband (California)
Country: United States
When does problem occur: Intermittently will see a random period of R0 for a couple seconds maybe 2-3 times per hour (usually when a lot of things are occurring simultaneously). Very rarely (once or twice since release) I've seen it occur almost once every couple minutes, at which point I have no choice but to log off.

Note 1: My ISP doesn't throttle any traffic and has an extremely robust active ethernet fiber network, so it must be a routing issue or capacity issue with the S-E servers.
Note 2: This problem did not occur during Alpha or Beta 1-3, the problems started with Beta 4. Notably this was when the NA data center was introduced.

[Oyb]

ISP: NTE
Country: Norway
Time: 4pm - 2am

[Avynia]

- Name of ISP: Cox Communications
- Country of Residence: United States - Las Vegas, Nevada
- When does the problem occur: 24/7 and even worse in a dungeon. Started since the last maintenance.

Definitely not being throttled. Its entirely a routing issue as you can see in the link below. Hopper 5, 13, 14 and 15 consistently times out.

http://pastebin.com/4zF5DnLP - Some trace routes taken every 6 hours.

[Mapleine]

-Name of ISP ~ Cox Communications
-Country of Residence ~ USA - Las Vegas, NV.
-Problem Occurrence ~ Pretty much always, very difficult to do anything timing based like a dungeon or a fate, won't be paying for any more game time if this keeps up.

You need to look at this thread:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...%29-lag/page37

Because I do not think it is throttling. Something seems busted.

[Hooty]

Called Cox in Arizona and they told me to get a new modem. LOL. This game is unplayable right now.

[Anova]

ISP: Comcast
Country of Residence: USA
Problem Occurrence: Seems to be always problematic. There's been a couple of days per week where the problem is not so bad. Specifically, 9-13 10pm-12pm, 8-26/27 5pm-3am, and 9-8 8pm-12pm have been the only times playable for me. Every other day has been punctuated by 30 seconds of lag spikes, disconnects, or unable to connect to NA/JP server.

[Mjuffsan]

ISP: Glocalnet
Country: Sweden
Time: Around 5PM GMT+1. Lags really bad in instances and congested areas.

[Saltz]

East Coast (USA)
Comcast

5-20 Second Lag Spikes. Really makes this game unplayable. Dungeons and instanced fights are just frustrating. I play many games online and none of them have issues with lag like this one.

[Elphan]

- Name of ISP: Vodafone
- Country of Residence: Spain
- When does the problem occur: Seems like it is 24/7
- Reference number from your ISP: N/A

I had some problems but after maintenance it got worst with high spikes of lag and dungeons are often unplayable. Not sure if my ISP throttles P2P but maybe given the amount of time I play they may started doing it.

Edit: Did a tracer and most of the problems comes from 85.205.24.230, which is indeed a Vodafone Group Services IP.