Been having intermittent connection issues with FF14 and lodestone website for awhile now, usually lasting anywhere from 10-20minutes, but today I got hit with a big one, so far 6 hours+ and counting.

talked to both SE customer service and my isp, both say they're not blocking anything, and the problem is on the other end, go figure :/

I've tried resetting winsock, flushed dns, switched to 3rd party dns, bypass the router etc., nothing seems to be working So far I've ruled out my pc, as my phone can't access the lodestone forum either when using the network, which would suggest that the router could be the issue.... but yet it does the same thing when it's modem direct to pc as well.

The only way for me to access lodestone and the game atm is through a VPN, but that's not really a permanent solution, anyone got any ideas?