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[Alhanelem]

P.S.: And before you come at me with nonsense about checking my connection cables, I've included all the pictures even a speed test done from my own PC, so you can see that everything here works perfectly fine except FFXI.

Other games working doesn't mean you don't have a problem. Everyone uses this logic but it just doesn't work that way. FFXI depends on a lot of obscure stuff some of which is even depricated now (i.e. directplay) and there may be things that aren't configured ideally for FFXI even if they aren't technically "wrong."

So as a P.S. to you, please don't tell people not to ask certain questions. Every tech support person in the world will thank you- They have to follow a troubleshooting script which has steps in a certain order for very important reasons.

That said, the most common network problems I see today are badly configured or malfunctioning backbone internet routers (not YOUR router, but a router along your shortest path to the server), which cause intermittent reliability issues. Most often these issues can be worked around by use of a VPN, which allows you to force your connection to take a different path to reach the server and can resolve many connection issues. This is also a perfect example of a problem that may only affect a specific game but is not the fault of that game itself.

I don't see any kind of commitment to offering the community a service that justifies what we pay per month

Please don't play this card. 99.99% of the time these problems have nothing whatosever to do with Square Enix. They didn't put a rule on the servers that says "don't let this one guy connect." But if you want to blame them anyway, by all means speak with your wallet and stop paying them money. If it was a server-side issue, you'd see a lot more people complaining about it. and even THEN, usually it's a temporary issue. A DDOS attack, some peice of equipment went down, etc.

FFXI has extremely good uptime so out of all the reasons not to give them money, I would not agree this is one of them.