it's more an issue with the connections in general--as in too many people pulling the download atm. Best I've gotten from most any server over there is a 6Mb stream on average during peak traffic (and I've been able to maintain upwards of 12Mb streams to closer sites). Granted, I don't do much pulling from the JP region, as most companies will have a regional server that is better to use.

14's torrent system was using P2P when I was in the beta...so you were using shared pooling amongst the players. That may require more of a change to the underlying structure of the POL system than they are willing to commit to. Would be great if they would do it...I just don't expect them to any time soon. We'd probably have better luck asking for offline regional download mirrors. Given enough time, a new package with the updated ROM's may be made available at one of the FFXI forum sites to that end.