Launcher is VERY slow and I'm unable to login..

Hi there.. Having this problem today where the launcher screen loads EXTREMELY slow and in pieces (sometimes the news links load first, sometimes the login/pwd boxes, but in all cases the launcher window takes 5+ MINUTES to fully load). When I'm finally able to enter my credentials and login, it once again lags for another 2-3 minutes then returns the error message:

Unable to complete version check. [30410][30607][10009][10019]

I've had similar problems when trying to enter the forums - I get an error message "400 Bad Request : Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand."

Any issues seen elsewhere that uses flash? Sluggish internet in general? Have you tried a test at something like www.speedtest.net to make sure your network/internet in general is functioning normal? Then there's the old malware/virus scan process... can get a free scanner from www.malwarebytes.org that works pretty good.

I've been having those problems all day actually. It eventually let me log in, and once I got in the game, I had zero problems.

The forums have been doing this to me all day:

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Error messages when trying to post a quick reply, the top looks like HTML/XML issues, and in general, the forums, the Lodestone, and the Launcher are all *extremely* slow for me and only those sites. Every other site I visited today worked normally. I blamed Firefox, but the plugins aren't the issue because the site does this with them disabled too and today is the only day I've ever had a problem with it. Which wouldn't explain the Launcher slowness, I guess. Well like I said, I've no explanation for it, it just let me log in later in the day.

Yeah same here Rhindas.. It took me another hour or so to finally get logged into the game, but once in I had no issues.

As for my connectivity, that's a separate issue lol.. I'm currently using Clearwire 4G so my latency is horrendous - I've given up trying to run Titan/Ifrit/Lev Extreme & Second Coil because I can barely dodge stuff.