Game launch error & website awefully slow

[ksufoley]

For me, this was not an issue that was resolved through SE but rather my own ISP. I'll try to make this brief but the issue I had was far from that. My epic journey basically ended when I call my ISP, found out they had most of asianic IP addresses blocked and got them to unblock SE servers. Both from the NA/EU server and Japanese servers. ISP's are there not to block you but to protect you so just call and tell them why you need these unblocked and that they are not a risk to the server integrity.

Japanese server block: 124.150.152.0 - 124.150.159.255
NA/EU server block: 199.91.189.0 - 199.91.191.255

beyond the trouble that I had with this and not being able to get to the SE forums or support to get help, I eventually got the game to work again and will finally be able to look forward to 2.2. This was my last resort sort of because I tried everything else and some of the other options might be easier and work for others. I tried ipconfig settings, router settings, port forwards, and anything else I could find info on the web but this is what worked for me.

However, here is some other information I got through the process.

Port Forwarding for FFXIV
TCP
54992-54994
55006-55007
55021-55040

This is the best information I have on this subject but I'm no techie. But the error report your getting is a connection error either from your router itself or your ISP and if this doesn't work then you can always call or get live chat from SE and simply ask them to run a tracert to YOUR IP address and see where it stops. The last IP before it times out is usually where the connection problem is... its where mine was.