Stuck at "Connecting to data center"

... and that is where nothing happens. It's doing something, there's a small percentage of CPU use, some GPU use, but nothing visible at all.

edit: Firewall rules have not changed, I did try removing the port forwarding, but that didn't help.
edit: The process ffxiv_dx11.exe does not show up as having any network activity on the resource monitor.

It doesn't matter which data center I try to connect to, the result is the same, it gets stuck at "Connecting to data center".

How to fix this, or at least find out what is wrong?



Nevermind, this has been somewhat resolved, it seems to be an ISP issue.

Greetings fellow Eorzean,

We are happy to hear that you were able to resolve this issue.

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