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

[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.

[mkaito]

Latency doesn't decrease with a bigger pipe. It's a completely separate issue, as long as you have enough bandwidth for the traffic the game requires, which is really low.

[Michelasso]

Latency doesn't decrease with a bigger pipe. It's a completely separate issue, as long as you have enough bandwidth for the traffic the game requires, which is really low.

It depends. If a proxy has direct or at least a better connections to the SE datacenters and our computers things they will improve. That's what after all they implemented in the KillZone: Shadow Fall online. They use a network of forwarding servers that basically act as routers for the game connections in a fast dedicated infrastructure.

But sure, if the latency is slow at the source or even worse they connection loses packets sometimes, things will never improve much.

Anyway, how do you test the ping to the FF XIV servers?

[Whizawk]

Anyway, how do you test the ping to the FF XIV servers?

You need access to a windows machine as you'll need the command prompt.

You then type the command and the IP of the datacenter. The prompt will then get back to you with the possible route the signal had taken (hops) and the average ping.

[misterdapi]

WTFast is awesome. TWC is Los Angeles is still trying to pin down the bad hops on the way to Montreal.

(If you have TWC in SoCal Send your trace routes to scustomer@roadrunner.com ATTN: Dave)

Meanwhile i'm rocking a perfect connection again using WTFast. Anyone nay saying these services are just ignorant. The difference is night and day.

Still get hit with random spikes at times. Can't win them all. WTFast even shows a real time graph to what your internet is doing and what the tunneling route is doing. Pretty big difference.

[Enfarious]

Normally I wouldn't put much stock in things like this, partly cause I'm paranoid, and partly cause I don't want to pay for a service of this nature when my avg ping time to the datacenter is about 50ms.

Sadly even w/ such a low avg. ping I get (used to get) horrible lag spikes, nothing happening for 2~3 seconds then seeing everything play catchup as the data all slammed home at once. It was horrible and saw me dead more than a couple times.

Since I decided to try WTFast I haven't had any spikes, while it's running, that were enough to cause a problem.

[Harara]

hey Enfarious/Mrdapi,

I also resorted to using WTFast and it's been helping quite a bit, but I noticed some rubberbanding while playing Garuda EX. Just wondering if you both are using the "premium" or the regular sub? I'm almost done with my first month and curious if the extra money for the "premium" is worth it or not.