Quote Originally Posted by Sprudling View Post
Known ISP issue. Check this sticky thread:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...P2P-throttling

In the meantime it can be worked around by using a VPN.
It's nothing to do with P2P throttling by ISPs. My ISP throttles nothing and yet that was still happening (later on, I connected and stayed connected, and was flawlessly playing for 14 hours, so it's a bit of a mystery.)

The fact that the servers and the pipes that feed them are being hammered within an inch of their lives (and if everyone's macro-ing login attempts it's geting close to a DDOS attack probably has more to do with it.