Cannot connect error 2002

[Malzian]

I don't mean to imply that it is an issue on your end, just want to have people watch there connecting during the entire process to see if FFXIV is causing a connection issue.

From what you posted, I am unsure if you have done the ping test recently before/during/after trying to connect to FFXIV, this is all I am trying to confirm.

Ran a ping test to Google with the -t flag from the moment I clicked 'Play' on the Launcher through the time I got kicked off of the game. No fluctuations. Personally, I'd be interested in seeing the metrics of the NA/EU server's connections, I'm sure it'd be both fascinating and answer a lot of questions.

[Tsuroku]

Ran a ping test to Google with the -t flag from the moment I clicked 'Play' on the Launcher through the time I got kicked off of the game. No fluctuations. Personally, I'd be interested in seeing the metrics of the NA/EU server's connections, I'm sure it'd be both fascinating and answer a lot of questions.

Yes I would like to see this as well. Has frustrating has all this crap is, it also get me curious has to what is going on that is causing all this mess.

[Zervun]

Ran a ping test to Google with the -t flag from the moment I clicked 'Play' on the Launcher through the time I got kicked off of the game. No fluctuations. Personally, I'd be interested in seeing the metrics of the NA/EU server's connections, I'm sure it'd be both fascinating and answer a lot of questions.

The game client is not going to affect the computers network performance. Outside of a flood and/or overloading TCP/UDP sockets it cannot dig into the network stack of the OS (there is no driver attached to the exe). I ran multiple ping tests just for s' and giggles' and all came out perfectly fine.

This is most likely network/connection issues on their end. If they have poor session handling and it's overloaded it could be a major issue. There is a max to the number of sockets and if they have coded something that has issues purging existing connections then it could get maxed (even with the same player trying to log in multiple times).

Odds are though that they have a server cluster sitting behind load balancers. I have more of a feeling that they just have overloaded servers and it's at the server code level that they are not handling things properly (login server for example).

The forum registration and so forth is wonky.

Tsuroku if you do have issues while it's being loaded/played on your system with pinging things you have some larger issues which are probably ISP or driver/resource related.

[Malzian]

The game client is not going to affect the computers network performance. Outside of a flood and/or overloading TCP/UDP sockets it cannot dig into the network stack of the OS (there is no driver attached to the exe). I ran multiple ping tests just for s' and giggles' and all came out perfectly fine.

This is most likely network/connection issues on their end. If they have poor session handling and it's overloaded it could be a major issue. There is a max to the number of sockets and if they have coded something that has issues purging existing connections then it could get maxed (even with the same player trying to log in multiple times).

Odds are though that they have a server cluster sitting behind load balancers. I have more of a feeling that they just have overloaded servers and it's at the server code level that they are not handling things properly (login server for example).

The forum registration and so forth is wonky.

Tsuroku if you do have issues while it's being loaded/played on your system with pinging things you have some larger issues which are probably ISP or driver/resource related.

I understand that the game client isn't going to affect network performance and I stated that the issue wasn't likely caused on my end.

[Tsuroku]

The game client is not going to affect the computers network performance. Outside of a flood and/or overloading TCP/UDP sockets it cannot dig into the network stack of the OS (there is no driver attached to the exe). I ran multiple ping tests just for s' and giggles' and all came out perfectly fine.

This is most likely network/connection issues on their end. If they have poor session handling and it's overloaded it could be a major issue. There is a max to the number of sockets and if they have coded something that has issues purging existing connections then it could get maxed (even with the same player trying to log in multiple times).

Odds are though that they have a server cluster sitting behind load balancers. I have more of a feeling that they just have overloaded servers and it's at the server code level that they are not handling things properly (login server for example).

The forum registration and so forth is wonky.

Tsuroku if you do have issues while it's being loaded/played on your system with pinging things you have some larger issues which are probably ISP or driver/resource related.

Thanks for the info Zervun, I will check both of your suggestions out. Though I think I have hit wall from the ISP end of things.