Quote Originally Posted by Soukyuu View Post
Actually, I did not notice any difference between ports being open or closed in case of FFXIV's patcher. They are closed on my side at the moment and the patcher was DLing @ 270kb/s (my max being 325kb/s)
for me, open ports mean the difference between 20kb/s and 300+ kb/s when using the patcher. That's been the case for me every time.