Quote Originally Posted by bwalker36 View Post
If you have not, I would suggest disabling your anti-virus. I have hear rumors some don't play nice. I would disable it, restart the client in admin and see what happens.
Dont disable your anti virus, ports forwarding doesnt fix this issue either.
The real cause is there are ISP that have issues with the connection while playing the game
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...P2P-throttling
Welcome to the club, you are not the only one with this issue.
As of now all I can suggest is to keep using the VPN until Square finds a solution to this issue, and pray that the fix is soon...