Final Fantasy XIV: Realm Reborn - Lag/Packet loss?
Hard mode primal fights? 
Same boat, similar story, it's been noticeable a week or two now. Really wasn't like this before, but it seems to be limited to the evenings (the only time i can play without swapping gaming for sleeping, which I'd rather not do). Guess I'm going to have to plan for a late night and join a pick up group if I want to beat Titan...
I'm on wired ethernet, short run to the router, on Plusnet Unlimited Fibre.
I ran a tracert last night during a particularly laggy spell, and according to the level3 node names, it's going London -> Paris(huh) -> London (huh, again?) -> New York -> Montreal. 2-3% packet lost of pings to SE datacentre.
I'm in Brighton and worried that this is coinciding with the university term times, as I've been with providers who fall over the moment the students come back (only to say it's resolved a few months later during the holidays, and rinse and repeat).
What information can we provide to start getting this looked at? (doesn't seem to fit into the normal category of speed problems, can be lagging in this game but speedtesting at 60/16, so the problem seems to be on this specific route.
From my work connection the routing is EXACTLY as I would expect it (London -> New York -> Montreal, but it's going over as6453 not level3).
(also ping from work is 106ms whereas it's varying 200-300 on plusnet)
(and gaming usage is showing as zero, been playing this game heavily since beta, and i know it's using quite a chunk of bandwidth, so that's another anomaly)
Same boat, similar story, it's been noticeable a week or two now. Really wasn't like this before, but it seems to be limited to the evenings (the only time i can play without swapping gaming for sleeping, which I'd rather not do). Guess I'm going to have to plan for a late night and join a pick up group if I want to beat Titan...
I'm on wired ethernet, short run to the router, on Plusnet Unlimited Fibre.
I ran a tracert last night during a particularly laggy spell, and according to the level3 node names, it's going London -> Paris(huh) -> London (huh, again?) -> New York -> Montreal. 2-3% packet lost of pings to SE datacentre.
I'm in Brighton and worried that this is coinciding with the university term times, as I've been with providers who fall over the moment the students come back (only to say it's resolved a few months later during the holidays, and rinse and repeat).
What information can we provide to start getting this looked at? (doesn't seem to fit into the normal category of speed problems, can be lagging in this game but speedtesting at 60/16, so the problem seems to be on this specific route.
From my work connection the routing is EXACTLY as I would expect it (London -> New York -> Montreal, but it's going over as6453 not level3).
(also ping from work is 106ms whereas it's varying 200-300 on plusnet)
(and gaming usage is showing as zero, been playing this game heavily since beta, and i know it's using quite a chunk of bandwidth, so that's another anomaly)
Good new to hear about the work on the sig, thanks for letting us know
True, there have been lag issues, and server problems, but those are mostly in the past since Square Enix massively upgraded data centre capacity. Alot of the non-server lag issues that I'm aware of in the UK were for BT Infinity customers on certain packages, due to throttling treating the game as peer to peer traffic and applying shaping. I'm not sure if that was resolved on those packages yet (does plusnet share game sigs with BT?), but the person I know who was affected switched package and since then has not had major issues.
I can also say with certainty this is a fairly new state of affairs on plusnet, whilst the person in my group using BT was having issues, my connection was perfect. In the last week or so, my connection has got to the point where I am sitting out of events as I pose to much of a risk (as I mention it has been bareable by the early hours, but still significantly degraded over what I was used to before). When 7 other people on team speak can see my character dead on the floor for about 10 seconds before I can, there's something really quite wrong, and it's not an issue on the game server itself.
If it is a peering issue, how can we go about getting that confirmed?
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True, there have been lag issues, and server problems, but those are mostly in the past since Square Enix massively upgraded data centre capacity. Alot of the non-server lag issues that I'm aware of in the UK were for BT Infinity customers on certain packages, due to throttling treating the game as peer to peer traffic and applying shaping. I'm not sure if that was resolved on those packages yet (does plusnet share game sigs with BT?), but the person I know who was affected switched package and since then has not had major issues.
I can also say with certainty this is a fairly new state of affairs on plusnet, whilst the person in my group using BT was having issues, my connection was perfect. In the last week or so, my connection has got to the point where I am sitting out of events as I pose to much of a risk (as I mention it has been bareable by the early hours, but still significantly degraded over what I was used to before). When 7 other people on team speak can see my character dead on the floor for about 10 seconds before I can, there's something really quite wrong, and it's not an issue on the game server itself.
If it is a peering issue, how can we go about getting that confirmed?
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Quote from: shaone Hard mode primal fights?
Same boat, similar story, it's been noticeable a week or two now. Really wasn't like this before, but it seems to be limited to the evenings (the only time i can play without swapping gaming for sleeping, which I'd rather not do). Guess I'm going to have to plan for a late night and join a pick up group if I want to beat Titan...
Yes, ive allready done Titan with zero issues (back when i had no lag and in off peak hours)
what you said further down in your post about the route being taken was the same for me, not tried from work as they block these functions but on 1 occasion for me to notice ive been able to use as6453 using plusnet, my mobile always uses this route(as6453).
I'll be playing from now until the early hours so and am trying to help FC members through titan tonight also which is hard to do with lag so should be a good test
I'm on Fibre Unlimited I've also been playing Final Fantasy XIV since beta with absolutely no issues, and even when the game launched on August the 27th I was able to play at any time of day without any issues for several weeks. Starting maybe 2 or 3 weeks ago I have massive amounts of lag, usually from around 7pm till about 10pm, every night. I also found that I was getting significant packet loss during the traceroutes I ran. Any help? 
Yup, I have the problem tonight. The refund on the pro add on would be really appreciated