Is it safe to use WTFast or Battle ping to reduce latency?

[Sushieatingbunny]

Before, I used WTFast to play some international games and I'm wondering if this is safe for us FFXIV players? does it Violate any rule from the rules and regulation?

[Rhime]

What latency? Get some high speed cable internet...

[Naryoril]

What latency? Get some high speed cable internet...

FFXIV has some issues where this doesn't help. I'v got 75kb down and 10kb upstream, and still sometimes the game just decides to start lagging like hell and disconnecting me. It usually continues for an hour or 2. Sometimes entering an instanced dungeon solves the problem, sometimes it occurs at the very moment i do this. Even when FFXIV is acting up, everything else works perfectly fine at the same time. And it is the only game where i ever had issues like this (apart from times when an MMOs servers were acting up and everyone was having these problems).

I'v been thinking to try Battleping or the like myself, since several people in my FC could solve these problems with it. But i guess i'll wait for 2.1, and if it still occurs then, i'll try it out as well.

[CalvatE]

I'v got 75kb down and 10kb upstream.

That is low. Really, really, really low. Even by Australian standards which is pathetic enough already.

[Naryoril]

That is low. Really, really, really low. Even by Australian standards which is pathetic enough already.

sorry, my mistake, it should be mbit, not kbit. I looked up the exact numbers on my ISPs website (because the get higher every year) and it says 75000/10000, but i didn't notice that the unit was kbit. So yeah, it's 75mbit down and 10mbit up.

[CalvatE]

sorry, my mistake, it should be mbit, not kbit. I looked up the exact numbers on my ISPs website (because the get higher every year) and it says 75000/10000, but i didn't notice that the unit was kbit. So yeah, it's 75mbit down and 10mbit up.

Can we trade internets? I don't like being on 1MB ADSL ;_;

ps: at least i can dodge plumes LOL thank frick for that.

[Thorauku]

What latency? Get some high speed cable internet...

No matter how fast your internet is, if the latency is there, you'll still experience a slow connection, hence the use of proxies. Genius.

[Shori]

although i'm not aware of it being against rules... why would you? sure the ping between the proxy and the server may be lower but youve still got to connect to the proxy so in other words you're putting your computer at risk connecting to a proxy to actually go further around thw world lol

[HEC]

From the strictly technical point of view there is no way of "improving" your (overall) latency by any kind of proxy-ing and you're actually puting yourself in the risk of having your login details being captured and used etc.

[Rekujen]

ignorance is bliss.

battleping works.