only time I've noticed POL slow down is when it looses focus for some reason (like after a new version installs and security pop-ups and such happen, all animations come to a near stop in POL). Put the focus back on POL and all is good again. Just one thing to check for I guess--to see if the focus is lost on POL.
Otherwise, there may be some issues with IP traffic stalling or something. If your security software or router is logging connections, I'd check to see if something is getting blocked when you try to log on. SE uses a TON of IP's, something may be blocking some traffic from them for some reason--some block specific things like ping and DNS traffic by default. If you find some SE IP's getting blocked, try white listing them. Or if it's a port traffic routing issue, might need to setup port forwarding properly with your router.
I've found many IP's logged over the years, sometimes I had to whitelist a specific IP to fix things, but I've found one big block leased to SE, so if you see activity in theses ranges it should be safe to allow them:
124.150.152.0 - 124.150.159.255
(found after researching a few IP's getting blocked on my system, ARIN reported this whole block for SE)
If you find IP's outside these ranges, you can get info on the IP at somewhere like www.dnsstuff.com. It will give a small report, and there will be a hyperlink of the IP address for WHOIS info that will give you a full ARIN report for the entire subnet block containing that IP address and who it is leased to.
Ultimately, I added rules to allow these IP's in my local firewall:
124.150.152.0-124.150.152.255
(IP block around quite a few IP's that were getting blocked at different times when zoning)
124.150.154.0-124.150.154.255
(IP block around blocked IP's that resolved names in the pol.com domain (like ffxi00.pol.com), some names are listed within the POL files)
202.67.53.31 dns1.square-enix.net
202.67.53.95 dns2.square-enix.net
202.67.53.32 dns3.square-enix.net
202.67.53.96 dns4.square-enix.net
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Last edited by RAIST; 09-01-2011 at 12:25 PM.
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