Been there done that. It stops on two of the hops. Here is the response from RCN after days of contacting them:

"I apologize but at this time there is no ETA being provided. The problem is between ORMUCO-WebHost) and ONAM. A provider issue.

Thanks you for your understanding in this matter. We are working with the providers to resolve the issue as quickly as possible."

While FFXIV's GAME SERVER is not directly at fault, their horrendous hosting service, likely in a co-lo (a server farm in a remote location, saving costs) is at fault. They pay those fools pennies on the dollar to host their services, so they need to be on top of this. Instead, they are going about it as though it's a tiny issue, completely avoiding the fact that thousands upon thousands of players are having this issue.

FYI - My two failing hops are equinox-was12.ip.tiscali.net(206.126.236.19 and is the MAIN culprit) and xe-1-0-0.mtl10.ip4.tinet.net(89.149.185.41 and it sometimes fails albeit not nearly as often as the other hop).