Quote Originally Posted by InfinitiZ35 View Post
has this been a repeatable situation with other PC users?
This tends to be a pretty isolated issue, coming up from time to time and I imagine it is caused by something on the route to the servers (there are many "stops" on the way from our homes to the server after all, and probably most of us take a different one).

I've had this issue perhaps a few times since 2005, and it was always an issue with my connection to the game server, not something that SqEX could help with.

On that note, yes, other services can continue to work just fine, since they are not using the same route as the connection to the FFXI servers are, so that is not necessarily an indication that "all is well".

If you haven't yet, it might be worth contacting your internet service provider about the issue, though often they will not be able to actually do anything (or refuse to do anything), especially if the issue is on the way past them. Usually all we can do at that point is wait, and hope that who ever is responsible will fix the issue.

All of this is of course based on my experiences and observations, and are not a solid, hard truth. I could be wrong. :]

In any case, hopefully it is a temporary issue in this case, and will go away soon.

I did notice that you have a wireless connection. Is that just from the PC to the router box thing, or wireless as in mobile network such as 4G? If it's the former, is it possible for you to try and connect the PC to the router/modem using a cable?