Sorry SE, but endgame won't work if you don't fix something.

[Ryuko]

Upgrading ur dl/up wont change anything as u wont get better ping with more dl/up... only fibre or better routing can get u better ping unless u had like 516kb upload and 1mbit dl then u cud prob see an improvement in ping.

There is another way but thats most unlikely and that is when u upgraded they placed u somewhere else which had better routing... but like i said its very unlikely.

It wasn't about ping so much as it was about stability. My ping is actually pretty good (I'm 8 hours away from NA servers). The problem is... I'm in a household with multiple users -- two gamers, at least 5 separate computers, a PS3, Wii, a 'smart' tv and even a few smartphones. We only had 15mbps down and 5 up, but that was always enough because I never had any trouble avoiding anything else in other MMOs. We simply had too much going through that poor modem and router. I'd get lag spikes as different devices struggled to keep up. Playing this game at the same time as my boyfriend was tough -- he's a a tank, so the fight wasn't too bad for him, but dodging stuff as a dps/healer was super hard on me.

I'm also using cable, which fluctuates depending on the time of day because this connection is networked with all of the other cable users in the area. For whatever reason, my internet would get super slow between 8pm and 2-3am. In 1.0, doing Ifrit (extreme) was doable during the day, but near impossible at night. I'm convinced someone in my neighborhood torrented loads of stuff at that time. I even began monitoring usage from each device when I suspected a visiting friend of leeching my bandwidth every night. I was right but he'll never admit it. XD Whatever it was, upgrading helped my issues greatly. I stopped dying to landslide like a noob. (With a cast timer THAT long... trust me, I wasn't being bad when I ran and got hit. If I do something stupid, I'll own up to it. =P) I now use 50 mbps down and 15 mbps up. This upgrade was long overdue in my opinion.