Thanks for the response! I searched the FFXIV folder and found the .exe's you were talking about and both were not running as administrator so I turned it on, no changes. Energy is set to "High Performance" and I checked that the network driver doesn't turn off too but still nothing.

I have the game installed through steam, could it be the reason for this to happen? Now I mostly avoid logging through steam since I read overlay programs could cause problems with the game so I use ffxivboot.exe (running as admin too) but that didn't change anything either in the last few months. I'm at a total loss since it's the only game I've had problems with.