I live in a very rural area, and have a really terrible internet connection (3 mbps DSL that doesn't even work half the time). It's bad enough that I actually usually use my cell phone's 4G hotspot for connection but it is prone to occasional bouts of lag.

I'm tired of hand crafting everything. It was okay in Heavensward and at the start of Stormblood when I could more or less count on HQing a final product with NQ mats, but now that it seems HQ mats are important, it takes me forever to manually do a craft. But on such a poor connection, macros can be pretty unreliable for me.

TL;DR of this is: Are there any of you out there that craft with macros on a shoddy connection? I realize the only thing I can probably do is to stretch out the pause time at the end of each line (I have it at 4 seconds right now which seems to be okay but I'm still occasionally breaking crafts) but I was just wondering if there were any other ideas like a better pause time or any third party tools to help even my connection out.

I'm still never macroing an end product, though. Too risky.