Packets lost connecting to EU/US servers (Proof In pic)

[Toludin]

You people do realize that a traceroute shows responses from all servers until it reaches the final destination (se)... Plus lag or high pings can be caused by other things such as high traffic, internet providers, and rerouting of hubs because of downed servers... Stop blaming se for something that isn't on their end... They control their servers only not the path of how your connection gets there...

I don't pretend to be an expert on these matters, but from the test I ran (and others I've seen), don't these show some amount of packet loss in the last few hops, which are most likely by the time it reaches SE's network? My tests just had IP addresses at the end with the packet loss, no address names, so I'm not sure what they are, exactly.

I play several MMO games and am not having equivalent issues in any of them right now, and haven't had this sort of issue before. It may very well be an issue with how my ISP (TWC) is handling this traffic, or something like that, but it doe seem, for me, to be limited to FFXIV.

If you have any advice or other things I can test to narrow down where the issue is, I'd very much appreciate it.

[typelethyl]

You people do realize that a traceroute shows responses from all servers until it reaches the final destination (se)... Plus lag or high pings can be caused by other things such as high traffic, internet providers, and rerouting of hubs because of downed servers... Stop blaming se for something that isn't on their end... They control their servers only not the path of how your connection gets there...

In most cases I'd say this isn't SE's fault but if you compare traceroutes from other users, towards the end, the last 3–5 hops are all generally the same pathway. There's A LOT of people that seem to have issues, usually a REQUEST TIMED OUT, in the last 5 hops of a trace.

If this is something that is consistent amongst a large group of players, this is not something that "is the player's fault, stop qq'ing" but something that SE needs to address.

[Ryuu_chan]

I tested ping for entire night now!
I'm pissed that we got eu servers in us but from the other side - for the entire night I had really good and stable connection.
Packet lost - 3 times for almost 10 hours and ping was checked every 2.5 sec.
The ping was stable between 150 and 200 ms. most of the time 160-170.

And be aware that I'm using mobile internet connection with wireless router!

So let's face it - the servers provided by SE are really good and that's hwat makes me happy!

[ShuyinTakahara]

You people do realize that a traceroute shows responses from all servers until it reaches the final destination (se)... Plus lag or high pings can be caused by other things such as high traffic, internet providers, and rerouting of hubs because of downed servers... Stop blaming se for something that isn't on their end... They control their servers only not the path of how your connection gets there...

Quote me In any part of this thread where I am blaming SE and we'll have a valid debate. But until then stop throwing accusations around as your claim isn't backed up.

[Nekodar]

Quote me In any part of this thread where I am blaming SE and we'll have a valid debate. But until then stop throwing accusations around as your claim isn't backed up.

Plenty of others blame SE for this, even with evidence pointing to an upstream provider.
The only thing SE can do really is escalate to them or look for alternatives.

[ShuyinTakahara]

Plenty of others blame SE for this, even with evidence pointing to an upstream provider.
The only thing SE can do really is escalate to them or look for alternatives.

Yea true. I think In reality It was probably about getting the cheapest servers possible but that to me has backfired.