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

[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?