So how do you know it's not your internet? Just because everything else is working, there may be some kind of issue with communications between your ISP and FFXI. Also I can't help but laugh at the whole "With all the time and work put into collecting assault points to use to purchase permits", you can complete assaults in a couple minutes that give you enough for 3 permits, that's not time or work.

But the one thing I can agree with is the 3min limit on Salvage.