All of this got started when I restarted Ironwang here and ported him over as part of the World Transfer process. I never had a single issue with logging in, internal communication...you name it, for several years until I did the World Transfer. Since then I've had a rolling series of log-in timeouts with "This character is already logged in. Please try again in a few minutes." (for hours), a couple of timeouts during zone changes, and this new slew of communication errors. Logging in with my main Mystara has only had issues once.

Not sure what could have happened there, but it's very disappointing to go from "Running like a Rolex" to "Running like a Pakistani knockoff of a Chinese knockoff watch" just because I restarted my first character when I started FFXI to have a Mule for my main...

As for the tech support, I'm pretty well lost there. I'm not a network wonk of any stripe and I'm smart enough to recognize when I'm out of my league. I also know barely enough to not go rooting around in my registry without knowing what i'm doing, and leave such things to CCCleaner.

The issue isn't me, my router, or my system. Everything else on my network and system was, and still is, running tip-top and without issue. The issue is that I bought a product, the earlier version of said product (which had all of the updates automatically installed from the new product and simply lacked in keys for unlocking certain functions) I had ran great until I asked SE to do what I thought was a basic function of transferring an old character to another server, and it's been a complete Goat Rope since. I don't want to call my ISP to trace where the issue is. I don't want to go through my registry to find some nit-noy potential issue that not affecting a single other operation on my system. I want the product that I have put my time and money into to freakin' work like it did before.