The lobby server connection has encountered an error (2002)

[Evermourn]

Same thing, "The lobby server connection has encountered an error" "2002" after logging in and before hitting my character screen. I'm in Australia, play on Ravana.

[Fingazu]

I'm in New Zealand, have been able to connect just fine until today.

As soon as I try to connect to Materia data center, I get "The lobby server connection has encountered an error: 2002", same as others have described.

[Nisia]

Joined the tribe of game exiles as of an hour or so ago.

DC'ed near the start of a duty roulette, subsequently can't even connect back to the Materia data centre (but can connect to data centres in EU/Japan/NA just fine). Connection error is the same 2002 error everyone else in the thread is reporting.

Another member of my FC also can't connect to the Materia lobby with the 2002 error (but without the preceding disconnect - they were last logged in early Wed morning AEST).

[Kougaiji]

Guys- it's a routing issue @ Sydney. A few of us on another thread got free vpns, routed through Japan and we're back in.

[Hopesmum]

Thank you for the info

[Yensa]

Experiencing same issue since around 5.30pm. Able to connect to all other DCs, just not materia. Tried disabling my firewall, resetting my modem and rebooting my computer with no success.

[HummerBug]

Unable to logon:

server not responding to connection attempts:
From Netstat:
153.254.80.103:54994 SYN_SENT

[Bloodrusher]

Just came back a couple days ago now this.... error 2002 when logging into OCE data centre... If I log into another lobby it works fine...... Using a vpn lets me get into the game but kicks me out 5 mins later and has constant lag...

[Zaniel]

error 2002 when logging into OCE data centre... If I log into another lobby it works fine......

This tells you it's a problem in the Sydney area. As others have posted the NBN is reporting network interruptions due to flooding and they are having difficulty getting the network back online, this isn't a Square/FF14 issue, it's a Sydney telco issue. Nothing we can do but wait until internet services get fixed in Sydney.

[Gharkamus]

I'm getting the same issue trying to login to Oce servers, I tried the usual things, resetting network adapter etc and nothing helped, and it's been going on for many hours now. I can login to the JP servers though, so you seem to be right on this one.