Launcher is VERY slow and I'm unable to login..

[Olorin]

Hi there.. Having this problem today where the launcher screen loads EXTREMELY slow and in pieces (sometimes the news links load first, sometimes the login/pwd boxes, but in all cases the launcher window takes 5+ MINUTES to fully load). When I'm finally able to enter my credentials and login, it once again lags for another 2-3 minutes then returns the error message:

Unable to complete version check. [30410][30607][10009][10019]

I've had similar problems when trying to enter the forums - I get an error message "400 Bad Request : Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand."

[Raist]

Any issues seen elsewhere that uses flash? Sluggish internet in general? Have you tried a test at something like www.speedtest.net to make sure your network/internet in general is functioning normal? Then there's the old malware/virus scan process... can get a free scanner from www.malwarebytes.org that works pretty good.

[Rhindas]

I've been having those problems all day actually. It eventually let me log in, and once I got in the game, I had zero problems.

The forums have been doing this to me all day:

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Error messages when trying to post a quick reply, the top looks like HTML/XML issues, and in general, the forums, the Lodestone, and the Launcher are all *extremely* slow for me and only those sites. Every other site I visited today worked normally. I blamed Firefox, but the plugins aren't the issue because the site does this with them disabled too and today is the only day I've ever had a problem with it. Which wouldn't explain the Launcher slowness, I guess. Well like I said, I've no explanation for it, it just let me log in later in the day.

[Olorin]

Yeah same here Rhindas.. It took me another hour or so to finally get logged into the game, but once in I had no issues.

As for my connectivity, that's a separate issue lol.. I'm currently using Clearwire 4G so my latency is horrendous - I've given up trying to run Titan/Ifrit/Lev Extreme & Second Coil because I can barely dodge stuff.