Update Congestion

[Jerbob]

How is it even possible for this to be such an issue? It's an embarrasment to everyone concerned, not least of all us for playing a game that is obviously so badly supported. I've not actually managed to download a single file yet.

I've got an image in my head of a single overworked server from the mid 1990s in the centre of a completely chaotic scene; SE's four FFXI employees are screaming and running around with their hands over their eyes, tripping over cat5 cables and colliding with metre high stacks of 720k floppy disks as magnetic tape spools whirr furiously overhead and literally kilobytes of data are transferred per second through a single, overworked ISDN line. In the corner a small twitching man flails hopelessly with a telephone switchboard-type construct, desperately trying to plug each FFXI user into a new port for every file they attempt to download.

Don't be angry if your download cuts out half way through. Think of the poor file switchboard man.

[Juilan]

How is it even possible for this to be such an issue? It's an embarrasment to everyone concerned, not least of all us for playing a game that is obviously so badly supported. I've not actually managed to download a single file yet.

I've got an image in my head of a single overworked server from the mid 1990s in the centre of a completely chaotic scene; SE's four FFXI employees are screaming and running around with their hands over their eyes, tripping over cat5 cables and colliding with metre high stacks of 720k floppy disks as magnetic tape spools whirr furiously overhead and literally kilobytes of data are transferred per second through a single, overworked ISDN line. In the corner a small twitching man flails hopelessly with a telephone switchboard-type construct, desperately trying to plug each FFXI user into a new port for every file they attempt to download.

Don't be angry if your download cuts out half way through. Think of the poor file switchboard man.

You're wrong, an ISDN would just queue us getting rid of the 1160 error.

[Jerbob]

Was anyone else amused by the annoucement that the problem had been "resolved" (i.e. most people had finished the download) and the subtle implication that they'd actually fixed something?

You're wrong, an ISDN would just queue us getting rid of the 1160 error.

That really wasn't the point!

[Camiie]

Was anyone else amused by the announcement that the problem had been "resolved" (i.e. most people had finished the download) and the subtle implication that they'd actually fixed something?

Then they'll hope we forget about it till next update when the exact same thing happens all over again.