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I'd hate to necro this thread after almost a year out, but I thought I'd follow up.

Some time after the school year I upgraded my PC. CPU, GPU, storage, motherboard, everything was changed.

I...

sorry, I got outta the loop here since university started. I'll see if anything has changed.

Far as I can tell I've only got like Windows Defender/Firewall



I tried again with a Mobile Hotspot, using cellular and all that. Didn't get through. sounds like it's my PC but the thing is I...

I managed to log in on a friend's machine, and my characters were there, and I got to properly log in... Could the issue be with my PC or my ISP's hardware?

I think I've exhausted everything short of just getting a completely different computer. Is there anything more you can tell me or suggest? Is there anything wrong with my account?

I carried my whole setup into the living room where my modem is, and still no dice, even with a hard wired connection.

I don't see that helping. I'll try connecting with wired connection and see what changes.

didn't work haha...

Spectrum says they use a "fiber-rich broadband network" if that helps

My PC was built by me. SOrry for the delay, I was gonna blow a gasket.

Thank you for the response! As of right now I'm still blocked by Error 3101
To the best of my knowledge, it's updated...

I'm beginning to think this is some kind of issue with SE. I still can't see any good reason for this sorta thing to be failing when every other thing on my computer connects fine.

Edit: I tried...

Direct play is enabled.

I've already tried running it with the antivirus(I only have Windows Defender/Firewall) turned off and it fixed nothing
I made new exceptions for pol/polboot.exe both incoming and outgoing with...

I will try and find what exactly it says. just a moment.
Edit:
>A Word to Our Players
*Play*
>FFXI is a massively multi-player...
*Accept*
>Loading bar flashes and immediately says
>Error...

Good afternoon, sorry for the delay.

124.150.154.122 timed out at Hop 2 and Hop 8, then finished at 21
202.67.54.126 timed out at Hops 2 and 8, finished at 21
202.67.62.70 timed out at Hops 2...

I have a lifetime subscription to a VPN. I connected from an IP in the US and I got the same issue. I can try from other IPs in the country and come back and see what I get.

I hit tracert on that one again, yo. on Hop 2, it timed out. then it timed out again on Hop 8, then it seemed to make it the rest of the way until it just ends at Hop 21, no timing out, after Hop 8...

pinged 202.67.54.126 all the packets made it through
pinged 202.67.62.70 and it worked
pinged 124.150.154.122 and it worked

I tried 202.67.48.0 and 202.67.63.255 and the requests timed out. all...

This is after pressing "Accept" at the FFXI is an MMO-blah blah prompt. I can't even get to my characters.

I am currently using Windows 10. I will try the connection check.

Edit: Enabling connection check did not work.

I don't run the game on a VPN
I don't use mods/addons
I reinstalled the game SEVERAL times, and turned off/on my PC/Modem/Router repeatedly
I've tried port forwarding and making exceptions in my...