Hey all...my wife and I both play on PS3 and have been since beta. We've gone through the ups and downs of the duty finder connection issues, D/C's, rubber banding, and for a good while things have been okay...except for fairly recently...
We have DSL and a Wireless Modem/Router combo. We both show signals around 90-95% consistently. When playing mostly in the evenings, my wife will run into severe rubber banding and frequent D/C's, to the point where it's really tough to do a dungeon. She experiences it outside a dungeon as well, but not as noticeable. My connection on the other hand, is 99% fine. Sometimes we'll see us both stop for a while and may D/C or snap back, but that's a once in a while thing. Usually I'm perfectly fine cruising along and she's hopping all over the place. Some nights, like the evening of 2.3 release, we were fine. Last night, we barely beat Tam-Tara (HM) as she was locking up all over the bosses. About the same time of day too.
Thoughts I've had:
1) Our connection: I've tested our speed on both PS3's and we're usually 8-9 Mbps and if I run at the exact same time, may be around 4-5. Both PS3's are close together, not seeing one way up and one way down. I was on in XIV and running the PS3 internet test and I found that I was a bit inconsistent with connecting to PSN or really slow connection. Found this mostly when I was in populated areas or zoning into populated areas, such as Grid or Mor Dhona. Have tried resetting router as well to no difference.
2) Her PS3: Since we're seeing issues with one but not the other, this crossed my mind, however her PS3 was bought at launch, mine is years old, and I've seen hers have a bit better loading speed than mine. Not much, but it's not like she's loading things seconds after I do.
3) XIV Server: While I know people that experience the same issues, I don't understand how I can be fine, she can have consistent issues across multiple days and logins. We've tried changing data centers and back as it was a suggestion, but that didn't seem to help either.
4) Wireless units for DirecTV: we recently altered our DirecTV setup to use wireless devices to connect other TV's boxes. I'm wondering if the traffic from that is conflicting with the traffic from our router and is just causing enough interference to cause her issues. But then, why not me too?
At this point I'm trying to move my modem/router where I can directly connect the PS3's to it and not use wireless. We're also testing a new Modem/Router and going to see if she persists when I'm not online. Does anyone have any thoughts of things we can try to troubleshot this? I'm so thrown off by one of our accounts having issues when the other doesn't even when both on the same network. Wonder if I need a router with more capabilities too.