ERROR 5006 AND 2002 POTENTIAL FIX

[Illyrian]

I was finally able to get logged in late last night, after setting at the queue for about 35 min. Today, I am back to getting 2002 errors.

My computer has Windows 7 on it.

[DarkShado]

Hello all!

I am not making any promising it which is why I clearly labeled it a "potential" fix. We have 1 desktop and 1 laptop in my home in which we both play FFXIV (2 different accounts).

On my Windows 7 desktop, I logged in early this morning (11AM EST) with I believe 1 5006 error message, but it went away after retrying once. The Windows 8 laptop had no issues connecting at all. Played for about 1-2 hours and disconnected.

Fast forward to now around 8PM-9PM EST and the Windows 8 laptop couldn't connect. The Windows 7 desktop instantly connected without any issues, but the Windows 8 laptop kept getting disconnected with 2002 and 5006 errors. I tried a ipconfig /flushdns command on the Windows 8 laptop and that didn't work. I tried troubleshooting by using different wifi connections, that didn't help either. I reconnected multiple times on the Windows 7 machine without issues, but yet the Windows 8 machine would not connect ever with ~90% of the messages being 2002 errors. So, we tested to see if trying a different data center would connect.

We connected to another data center without any issues on the Windows 8 laptop. Then pressed the bottom left X at the character selection screen and changed the data center back to where the Windows 8 laptop's characters were, and it connected!

I am thinking this could be a caching issue with data centers... but I cannot confirm this. Can other people try this and see if it fixing their issue? So to repeat in 3 steps:

1) Choose a different data center at the main screen and it will connect after you press the button.
2) If it does connect, press X and to back to main screen
3) Choose your original data center at the main screen and press the button and hopefully it connects...

If it doesn't, I am sorry if I got anyone's hopes up, but this is what worked for us. It is possible it was just luck... but maybe not...

This is garbage it does NOT work.. a 2002 error is because too many people are logging in at the same
time.

This will NOT fix the error you just happened to get lucky and get in none of this fixes the problem.
Ignore this thread!

[SicariusSeven]

This is garbage it does NOT work.. a 2002 error is because too many people are logging in at the same
time.

This will NOT fix the error you just happened to get lucky and get in none of this fixes the problem.
Ignore this thread!

No. See it works for some of us. As annoying as it is. We do get in with these methods. We'd all like it if this problem was fixed but SE won't do anything. So we have to go with the band aid fixes.

[Belgamin]

There is no playing only zuul.

[Amdonim]

Changing DNS server to google's fixed this problem for me so far.

[Magnificent]

Well I got in, took me about 10 log in attempts. I guess you just have to wait awhile.

[Jarvius]

Been trying for a half an hour know on Aether and nothing just the same 2002 error. tried the different data centers and can get into them just not Aether.

[zooka89]

i have tryed it dont work and i just crash it worked last night but today i did it and it didnt work and i am not sure what que your talking about when you try to join world if you get que and stuck forever quit after few and retry it usly lets you in the game

[OmegaNemesis28]

Still a dud. All day today Aether has been refusing my connection. I can connect to data centers fine.

[Korbash]

I tried changing the data center and flashing the DNS and it's not working. Really frustrating. Still giving some fix is a good thing, because earlier today flashing the DSN worked and I could finally log and play. But not tonight.