Any Updates Regarding Latency Issues w/ Endgame Content?

[skillface]

We have both noticed lag spikes and weird latency issues when we are playing via the cable connection.

We have also both noticed that we do NOT have these problems when we play using the DSL connection.

That's to be expected. As mentioned earlier, the problem with cable is that while it has higher theoretical bandwidth, you are also sharing it with everyone in the area, rather than having your own dedicated connection. Plus I believe cable hardware is optimized for pure speed (at the expense of latency), exacerbating the issue. As such, 90% of the time DSL is the preferred choice for gaming (especially if you can disable interleaving with your ISP).

FTTP is obviously preferable but the difference between copper and fiber latency is minimal anyway, unless you live more than a few miles from the exchange or something perhaps (as backbones are usually fiber anyway). Though the copper in a lot of areas has degraded over the years (it's especially bad here in Australia for instance thanks to Telstra's ineptitude), so that can cause packet loss and such, making fiber a significant upgrade to reliability and latency in some circumstances (ignoring the obvious throughput increase).

There was an update today in the dev tracking on the top of the forum. There have been many other posts regarding issues they are having and detailed explainations as to what has been done and what they are going to do. If this is insufficient then I am sorry but I don't know what else to tell you. These things don't get fixed overnight.

For your reference and convenience:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...29#post1204429

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/88643

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...28#post1286828

Those have nothing to do with this issue.