Quote Originally Posted by roflcaust View Post
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I don't want to rain on your parade OP, but this is not a fix. This has absolutely nothing to do with you getting past or "fixing" Error 3102. That just pure coincidence.

When you ping an IP address, you are sending 32 bytes packets of information (very tiny bits of data) to see what is the response time between your request to send data and receive data from the FFXIV servers.

It doesn't do anything server/client side. It's a very simple command that enables you to check the latency between your computer and SE's servers.
have you tried it?