System Error -2146697208

[KraggyKor]

I am also with BT and yes, BT have connection issues with the forums (and the game I expect too). It's actually BT's US peer:

I have two ISPs, BT and Virgin and simply re-setting my network adapter to use my VM connection is all I needed to do to connect to these forums, and yesterday when it happened re-connect to the game; I'm not at home ATM to try it.

Tracing route to forum.square-enix.com [202.67.50.142]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 10.0.0.248
2 5 ms 5 ms 5 ms 217.32.142.0
3 6 ms 5 ms 24 ms 217.32.142.30
4 6 ms 5 ms 5 ms 213.120.163.122
5 5 ms 5 ms 5 ms 31.55.165.219
6 6 ms 5 ms 5 ms 31.55.165.109
7 5 ms 5 ms 5 ms acc2-10GigE-11-2-0.mr.21cn-ipp.bt.net [109.159.250.206]
8 14 ms 15 ms 15 ms core2-te0-4-0-0.ealing.ukcore.bt.net [109.159.250.131]
9 18 ms 15 ms 15 ms peer3-te0-1-0-1.telehouse.ukcore.bt.net [109.159.254.42]
10 * * * Request timed out.
11 237 ms * * te0-1-0-7-gw1.lax3.asianetcom.net [202.147.58.144]
12 * * * Request timed out.
13 * * * Request timed out.


With Virgin I get this:

Tracing route to forum.square-enix.com [202.67.50.142]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 10.0.0.250
2 6 ms 7 ms 8 ms 10.93.144.1
3 7 ms 7 ms 7 ms bagu-core-2b-ae3-904.network.virginmedia.net [80.5.167.185]
4 11 ms 11 ms 11 ms leed-bb-1b-ae7-0.network.virginmedia.net [80.5.161.245]
5 13 ms 14 ms 14 ms nrth-bb-1b-et-710-0.network.virginmedia.net [62.253.175.50]
6 15 ms 16 ms 16 ms tele-ic-4-ae0-0.network.virginmedia.net [62.253.174.18]
7 112 ms 111 ms 110 ms 195.66.225.158
8 255 ms 253 ms 251 ms te0-1-0-1.gw1.lax3.asianetcom.net [202.147.50.174]
9 252 ms 252 ms 257 ms te0-1-0-1.gw1.lax3.asianetcom.net [202.147.50.174]
10 371 ms 371 ms 368 ms gi11-0-0.cr1.nrt1.asianetcom.net [202.147.61.170]
11 377 ms 376 ms 380 ms gi1-0-0.gw1.nrt5.asianetcom.net [202.147.0.178]
12 375 ms 373 ms 376 ms squareco.asianetcom.net [203.192.149.210]
13 371 ms 375 ms 369 ms 61.195.56.129
14 363 ms 364 ms 371 ms 219.117.144.70
15 361 ms 360 ms 364 ms 219.117.144.49
16 364 ms 364 ms 362 ms 219.117.146.129
17 401 ms 394 ms 388 ms 219.117.146.30
18 373 ms 370 ms 362 ms 202.67.50.134
19 * * ^C

I don't know for a fact, but it's a good guess that the BT hop 10 and VM hop 7 are their East Coast peers, which clearly connect to the same West Coast one for the trans-Pacific hop.