Hello, I live in Singapore and connect to the American servers when I play FFXIV. I usually average 170ms even without mudfish, and only use it when my connection starts to get weaker for some reason. My ping has been skyrocketing lately, at around 400ms-600ms with insane amounts of packet loss.
I ran a traceroute without mudfish -
Tracing route to 204.2.29.8 over a maximum of 30 hops
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms router.asus.com [192.168.1.1]
2 5 ms 4 ms 5 ms 183.90.54.1
3 3 ms 3 ms 3 ms 183.90.44.213
4 5 ms 3 ms 3 ms 183.90.44.173
5 5 ms 5 ms 4 ms 203.118.7.73
6 4 ms 3 ms 3 ms 203.118.7.94
7 4 ms 4 ms 4 ms unknown.telstraglobal.net [210.176.138.173]
8 6 ms 7 ms 6 ms i-93.sgcn-core01.telstraglobal.net [202.84.219.178]
9 180 ms 184 ms 181 ms i-93.sgcn-core01.telstraglobal.net [202.84.219.178]
10 182 ms 180 ms 182 ms i-10851.eqnx-core02.telstraglobal.net [202.84.136.2]
11 180 ms 180 ms 180 ms i-92.eqnx03.telstraglobal.net [202.84.247.17]
12 173 ms 173 ms 173 ms sjo-b23-link.ip.twelve99.net [213.248.75.146]
13 463 ms 479 ms 523 ms ntt-ic-323771.ip.twelve99-cust.net [62.115.12.53]
14 470 ms 461 ms * ae-10.r24.snjsca04.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.3.26]
15 517 ms 509 ms 502 ms ae-4.a00.scrmca03.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.7.57]
16 523 ms * 493 ms xe-0-0-5-0.a00.scrmca03.us.ce.gin.ntt.net [128.241.2.18]
17 * * * Request timed out.
18 513 ms 508 ms 500 ms 204.2.29.8
I thought turning on mudfish would fix the problem and while my ping seems to have gone down going by the numbers, the game still feels extremely laggy and I’m still experiencing packet loss.
Here’s a traceroute with mudfish on -
Tracing route to 204.2.29.8 over a maximum of 30 hops
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 10.254.62.1
2 352 ms 176 ms 176 ms 10.254.254.1
3 176 ms 176 ms 176 ms 10.255.254.98
4 * * * Request timed out.
5 * * * Request timed out.
6 * * * Request timed out.
7 189 ms 176 ms 179 ms lo0-0.gw4.scz1.us.linode.com [173.230.159.134]
8 177 ms 177 ms 177 ms ae50.r12.sjc01.ien.netarch.akamai.com [23.203.158.52]
9 177 ms 177 ms 177 ms ae0.r11.sjc01.ien.netarch.akamai.com [23.207.232.32]
10 181 ms 177 ms 177 ms ae-11.a03.snjsca04.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [140.174.28.105]
11 177 ms 177 ms 177 ms ae-6.r24.snjsca04.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.2.158]
12 180 ms 180 ms 180 ms ae-4.a00.scrmca03.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.7.57]
13 181 ms 181 ms 180 ms xe-0-0-5-0.a00.scrmca03.us.ce.gin.ntt.net [128.241.2.18]
14 * * * Request timed out.
15 180 ms 180 ms 180 ms 204.2.29.8
Since mudfish wasn’t working well either, I downloaded exitlag and the game seems to run just as it did before any of these problems started. Does anyone know why mudfish isn’t working well, are there any settings I can change or things I should check?