Macro crafting on a poor connection tips?

[Elamys]

Thanks for the replies everyone, I'll just drag out my pause times for now.

Sorry but stories like yours touch a nerve with me.

It's something my fiancee and I have discussed many, many times. AT&T is the only internet provider available here, and they know it. We pay more for our crappy DSL than fiber customers do, sometimes twice as much. And a lot of game companies completely forget that they have a rural fan/customer base. Automatic downloads, huge file sizes, constant patching, streaming, terrible handling of latency... FFXIV is particularly unfriendly to those with bad connections. The fact that you don't get even a tiny chance to get your materials back if you DC kills me.

inb4 "just move somewhere else" - we're trying, obviously.