Zoned into Meriph. Mountains (S). Got booted, Can't log back in main character.

[Karbuncle]

Man that sucks, btw have you tried turning off all the firewalling and see if it works that way?

Also, can you access XI using your brother's computer and move normally that way? And if you can, are we looking into a full OS reinstall here?

Yah, I've tried completely disabling the fire wall, didn't help none. I think we've tracked it to the Router but theres a lot of unanswered questions and no logical chain of thought can place why it works sometimes and sometimes doesn't but works for his computer almost entirely, its getting to the point its hard to explain lol. My brother connected to the Router in my room and was not able to log into the game the same way I couldn't. We tried logging in from his there-after and he was able to get on, and so was I for a short time, but upon exiting and re-entering Meriph I was locked out again entirely as before.

We eventually found a work around by deleting all of my saved Network Keys in some part of my computer I didn't know existed, this allowed me to log on and leave Meriph, but was promptly screwed again upon trying to enter that zone again. My Mule was able to enter Sauromogue Champaign and Ceizac fine after I was locked out in Meriph again, but upon entering Rolanberry, I again experienced the disconnect on him. So far, Rolanberry Fields and Meriph Mountains (S) have both locked my characters out with constant disconnects.

The router is nearly 3 years olds so we thought it might be on its way out and have purchased another, but it seems that the issue more often than not is connecting to the lobby server.

We've destroyed the old router in the way best fitting old routers who drive me insane for 24 hours. BY taking it into my backyard and beating it with a shovel until it was no longer recognizable as a piece of technology. (not really, but I'm going too).

But with the new router connection appears stable but I can't confirm it til I leave and rezone into Meriph, which I'm not doing anytime soon TBH...

[Catmato]

It's a long shot, but have you tried to flush your DNS cache?
Open a command prompt and enter the command:
ipconfig /flushdns

[Karbuncle]

Well with a brand new router, now both me and my brother are Experiencing the "Downloading Data" error with server connection loss/time out preventing us from accessing our characters. This is after it worked fine for a while, while we did campaign in Castle (O) and Plucking Wings.

This time he's experiencing it when entering Ru'Lude, and I'm experiencing it when entering Western Adoulin. Other zones worked fine... Alt characters not in the death-zone work as well. This has to be an XI issue somewhere along the line, cause no of our other services are effected and its only very certain zones causing us to bug out, and the zones seems to not be consistent or have any reason to it.

Now my primary character is lost unable to load into Adoulin, with my sub character working perfectly fine. So FFXI is even half working, allowing one character to roam while another is stuck in a loading screen unable to be accessed.

Still, if this was happening on any consistent basis it would have been reported by people other than me, which makes me keep checking my end trying to diagnose my computer and I keep coming up with nothing... Its frustrating

Edit: Also getting errors intermittently and possibly related, when accessing the Action house and /search function, they sometimes fail to load... getting the "Search Failed" message.

Edit2: Error is still "FFXI-3001" when trying to log in.

[SMD111]

i have some questions
does your internet modem have a router built in??
-if so were you using a second router to connect to that one??
---if so this might be causing your issue try just connecting to the services router/modem
-if not try connecting directly to the modem and if that fixes your issue then the setup on your router is bad or the router your using cant handle 2 high traffic games running at the same time

[Karbuncle]

i have some questions
does your internet modem have a router built in??
-if so were you using a second router to connect to that one??
---if so this might be causing your issue try just connecting to the services router/modem
-if not try connecting directly to the modem and if that fixes your issue then the setup on your router is bad or the router your using cant handle 2 high traffic games running at the same time

Its does not, we replaced the old router yesterday with a new one hoping that would fix it.. however while it worked for a little bit, the issues have happened again.

I even plugged directly into my Modem and this did not fix the issue, and I'm still locked out of my character...

I should mention We've been playing together for the last 2 weeks fine, and its only very specific zones that disconnect us, and they aren't even the same zones for both of us :|

[Raydeus]

It would suck if it ends up being your ISP that is messing up your connection to some servers in Japan.

[Karbuncle]

It would suck if it ends up being your ISP that is messing up your connection to some servers in Japan.

Agreed, but it seems other threads about it are cropping up though

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...-one-character.
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...d-to-read-data

The second one being ATT and I know i have charter :|