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  1. 03-28-2011 05:24 AM #1
    Falkoner
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    Today I have not been able to get onto the game either. I can log into PoL but once I try to load my character I get the Black "Downloading Data" screen but then it never goes anywhere.
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  2. 03-29-2011 03:17 AM #2
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    Quote Originally Posted by Falkoner View Post
    Today I have not been able to get onto the game either. I can log into PoL but once I try to load my character I get the Black "Downloading Data" screen but then it never goes anywhere.
    This sounds like an IP is getting blocked or otherwise is unable to reach your PC. This happened to me several updates ago with certain zones. After researching it with netstat and watching my firewall's log, I picked up a new subnet trying to reach my system from the POL domain--firewall was blocking it. Whitelisted the subnet, and the zones started loading again. This may not be your particular problem, but it IS a problem that exists, and the work around is to either whitelist the IP's or subnets, or at the very least direct the port traffic to the gaming device.

    If you have a home network with more than one system on it, you may need to have the port traffic for FFXI forwarded to your gaming device--especially if it is not on the main PC/laptop that your ISP is defaulting the passthrough data to go to. I forget the exact port traffic as I just whitelist the subnets instead--but that information is out there, probly Google it easily.

    This can be a BIG problem with people on something like cable who also have IP phone from their ISP on the same line--all non-phone traffic may be defaulted to go to a specific PC/Laptop's MAC address. In that scenario, you have to clone that PC/Laptop's MAC address to a router, then set up a forwarding rule to send the FFXI port traffic to your PS2/Xbox/other PC/laptop.

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  3. 03-29-2011 09:39 AM #3
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    Thanks Raist, I will investigate this
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