Request for information: ISPs and P2P throttling

[Arcueid]

I've been using WTFast, no lag/rubberband issues using the DC server for almost 20days. They have a free 30 days trial, not trying to advertise for them but its a temporary working fix for me atm. You can try out the trial and see if it helps you.

tried wtfast, its working so far thanks, but would really like to not rely on these things..

[Holy_Dragoon]

ISP: Start Communications
Location: Clarington, Ontario
Time of Occurrence: After 2.1 Often. Evenings until late into the night and randomly on weekends.

[Dudewhatzup]

- Name of ISP : TekSavvy Solutions, Inc.
- Country of Residence: Canada
- When does the problem occur: Always
- Reference number from your ISP: Have not contacted them

[Slacksy]

Unless its server instability i think I have a problem

-SKY Broadband
-UK
-Since 14 Jan 2014 1700

[Hoobala_Boobala]

Had no problems since launch with FFXIV lag until 10/11th of january. Now getting major lag with rubber banding, mis-fired abilities and just plain game freezing.

ISP - Sky broadband
Fibre optic 80mb/20mb up/down
UK
Since 10 Jan 2014

Tracerroutes below

Tracing route to traceip.ffxiv.com [202.67.52.81]
over a maximum of 50 hops:

1 3 ms 3 ms 3 ms SkyRouter.Home [192.168.0.1]
2 15 ms 32 ms 16 ms 97e70003.skybroadband.com [151.231.0.3]
3 24 ms 23 ms 23 ms 0278098e.bb.sky.com [2.120.9.142]
4 22 ms 20 ms 20 ms ae-1.r00.londen01.uk.bb.gin.ntt.net [83.231.199.161]
5 295 ms 294 ms 298 ms ae-6.r02.londen03.uk.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.3.2]
6 20 ms 20 ms 35 ms ae-4.r23.londen03.uk.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.5.40]
7 308 ms 285 ms 332 ms as-0.r22.osakjp01.jp.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.5.35]
8 296 ms 296 ms 295 ms ae-7.r24.tokyjp05.jp.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.3.221]
9 293 ms 293 ms 293 ms ae-4.a20.tokyjp01.jp.ra.gin.ntt.net [61.213.162.162]
10 296 ms 295 ms 294 ms ge-2-2-1.a20.tokyjp01.jp.ra.gin.ntt.net [61.120.146.94]
11 292 ms 293 ms 293 ms 219.117.144.70
12 295 ms 294 ms 297 ms 219.117.144.57
13 297 ms 298 ms 299 ms 219.117.146.141
14 298 ms 297 ms 297 ms 219.117.146.50
15 301 ms 298 ms 295 ms 202.67.52.81

Trace complete.

Tracing route to traceip.ffxiv.com [202.67.52.81]
over a maximum of 50 hops:

1 3 ms 3 ms 3 ms SkyRouter.Home [192.168.0.1]
2 15 ms 32 ms 16 ms 97e70003.skybroadband.com [151.231.0.3]
3 24 ms 23 ms 23 ms 0278098e.bb.sky.com [2.120.9.142]
4 22 ms 20 ms 20 ms ae-1.r00.londen01.uk.bb.gin.ntt.net [83.231.199.
161]
5 295 ms 294 ms 298 ms ae-6.r02.londen03.uk.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.3.2
]
6 20 ms 20 ms 35 ms ae-4.r23.londen03.uk.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.5.4
0]
7 308 ms 285 ms 332 ms as-0.r22.osakjp01.jp.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.5.3
5]
8 296 ms 296 ms 295 ms ae-7.r24.tokyjp05.jp.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.3.2
21]
9 293 ms 293 ms 293 ms ae-4.a20.tokyjp01.jp.ra.gin.ntt.net [61.213.162.
162]
10 296 ms 295 ms 294 ms ge-2-2-1.a20.tokyjp01.jp.ra.gin.ntt.net [61.120.
146.94]
11 292 ms 293 ms 293 ms 219.117.144.70
12 295 ms 294 ms 297 ms 219.117.144.57
13 297 ms 298 ms 299 ms 219.117.146.141
14 298 ms 297 ms 297 ms 219.117.146.50
15 301 ms 298 ms 295 ms 202.67.52.81

Trace complete.

Have no idea how to interpret these but seems to be really slow once it gets to japan...

[Vanroe]

ISP: Verizon Fios
Location: Massachusetts
Time of Occurrence: After 2.1 Often. Evenings until late into the night and randomly on weekends. (dungeons jittery/stuttering)

It seems to be a problem with the level3 hops. But since its a problem beyond the 5th hop, verizon seems unwilling/able to do anything about it, and have adopted a "it will work itself out/its level3/square's problem" stance.

Since its an issue thats been happening (for me) since 2.1 my only guess is that the increases server position check frequency is not jiving with the Level3 switch. This would also seem to explain why im mostly seeing it in dungeons.

Tracing route to 199.91.189.22 over a maximum of 30 hops

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms Wireless_Broadband_Router.home [192.168.1.1]
2 7 ms 7 ms 7 ms L100.BSTNMA-VFTTP-103.verizon-gni.net [98.118.61
.1]
3 10 ms 16 ms 12 ms G0-14-4-6.BSTNMA-LCR-21.verizon-gni.net [130.81.
212.72]
4 10 ms 9 ms 9 ms so-3-0-0-0.BOS-BB-RTR1.verizon-gni.net [130.81.1
51.218]
5 20 ms 19 ms 19 ms 0.xe-5-0-0.BR1.NYC1.ALTER.NET [152.63.16.61]
6 * * * Request timed out.
7 60 ms 62 ms 64 ms vlan52.ebr2.NewYork2.Level3.net [4.69.138.254]
8 42 ms 45 ms 43 ms 4.69.201.37
9 63 ms 61 ms 64 ms ae-5-5.car1.Montreal2.Level3.net [4.69.141.5]
10 34 ms 27 ms 25 ms ae-11-11.car2.Montreal2.Level3.net [4.69.141.1]

11 59 ms 59 ms 60 ms ORMUCO-COMM.car2.Montreal2.Level3.net [4.59.178.
74]
12 53 ms 52 ms 48 ms 192.34.76.10
13 53 ms 51 ms 51 ms 199.91.189.242
14 53 ms 53 ms 52 ms 199.91.189.22

Trace complete.

[Riko_Futatabi]

Started noticing latency issues a few days back. I'm unable to do anything but crafting/gathering reliably, lol.

ISP: Sky Broadband
Location: Scotland/UK
Time of Occurrence: Started around the 10th Jan. 2014 during 6PM~1AM. However today this problem has persisted passed 3AM.

[Natsu1313]

ISP - Verizon DSL
Location - Clearfield, Pennsylvania
Time - Always (as of patch 2.1)

[Zamotic]

ISP: Verizon FIOS
Location: Long Island, NY
Time of Occurrence: Pretty much since Maintenance 2.1. Seems to mostly affect Dungeons/Raids.

WTFFast appears to resolve it most of the time. Lag got so bad tonight I DC'd (with WTFFast).

Trace:
Tracing route to 199.91.189.57 over a maximum of 30 hops

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms Wireless_Broadband_Router.home [192.168.1.1]
2 6 ms 7 ms 7 ms L100.NYCMNY-VFTTP-116.verizon-gni.net [173.68.109.1]
3 11 ms 9 ms 10 ms G1-15-0-4.NYCMNY-LCR-21.verizon-gni.net [100.41.192.118]
4 7 ms 6 ms 6 ms ae5-0.NY325-BB-RTR1.verizon-gni.net [130.81.163.208]
5 8 ms 10 ms 9 ms 0.xe-4-0-0.BR3.NYC4.ALTER.NET [152.63.23.173]
6 25 ms 30 ms 27 ms te-7-3-0.edge2.NewYork2.level3.net [4.68.111.137]
7 35 ms 34 ms 34 ms vlan52.ebr2.NewYork2.Level3.net [4.69.138.254]
8 34 ms 34 ms 34 ms 4.69.201.37
9 33 ms 35 ms 34 ms ae-5-5.car1.Montreal2.Level3.net [4.69.141.5]
10 * 197 ms 210 ms ae-11-11.car2.Montreal2.Level3.net [4.69.141.1]
11 36 ms 39 ms 36 ms ORMUCO-COMM.car2.Montreal2.Level3.net [4.59.178.74]
12 36 ms 36 ms 38 ms 192.34.76.10
13 33 ms 34 ms 34 ms 199.91.189.242
14 33 ms 32 ms 32 ms 199.91.189.57

[wolfwaffle]

Name of ISP: Cox Cable

Location: Louisiana, United States

Happens once an hour on the dot for a couple weeks now.