lots of ISPs do it a lot of different ways, i would say changing your MAC almost definitely isn't going to give you a new IP address though
Lol. I'm pretty sure that won't either. Using a VPN is a good option as well. If that fixes your issue, then it's definitely a routing issue with your ISP. They maybe blocking certain ports etc. It's happened to me a few times out of the year. I turn on my VPN then until they've fixed the issue.
I am really starting to think this is the case. Cuss everything i do is pointing to the ISP.
but I tried with my phone again before and now my phone wont work ether. Do you think it could really be my files?
I would delete that temp folder with your char name. It won't hurt your char or macros etc. If that doesn't work, then yeah, something on the network end is being blocked.
If i delete that folder will i lose my spell order and my item order?
i haven't been able to get on my characters either since yesterday. either it times out while trying to connect or if it does log in, i immediately R0 and then it shuts down pol. i was able to get on several mules, but as soon as i zoned, it would time out and kick me. is it a bug in the game or something and is it likely to be fixed?
also on optimum, i wonder if they changed something that's making this happen, still having trouble days later. i can get in on my main, but as soon as i zone, it dc's and after another 30 attempts, I have to walk my way out of town step by step through the dc's just to get out of a crowded area. then the nest time I am able to get on, i can walk around the zone, but the second i try to go anywhere, it's more of the same.
My updated information, I can log into other characters that are not in port bastok, but if I log into a character in, or move into port bastok, that character gets disconnected with a FFXI-3001 error.
so it does seem that optimum users are having these issues right now and optimum is denying they are having any problems despite their website showing they are having an abundance of reported connection issues in various areas. always so helpful when the responsible party refuses to admit when they are having a problem.
On one character that I had an issue with previously, I waited 24 hours and was able to log in and zone freely thus far. I recall this being mentioned previously with other people who had this issue. Just an update.
so it does seem that optimum users are having these issues right now and optimum is denying they are having any problems despite their website showing they are having an abundance of reported connection issues in various areas. always so helpful when the responsible party refuses to admit when they are having a problem.
as a person who works for an ISP, I can say most likely that if you call and speak to someone, they don't really know much of what's going on, essentially a front line worker, mainly want to see if they have someone in network engineering (at least what we call it), who can investigate and check it out and open a ticket with them.
as a person who works for an ISP, I can say most likely that if you call and speak to someone, they don't really know much of what's going on
Man, I remember a few months ago I called my ISP because my modem was constantly kicking me from 5G while my 2.4G was working perfectly fine. I told buddy on the phone that resetting did nothing and that I wanted a new modem, and the *** didn't believe me and wanted to FaceTime/video chat with me to walk me through how to reset it. I told him to basically *** off and hung up and called back to get another rep and they sent me a new modem.
I've been having this problem for 2 weeks now. Literally started 15 days ago, after no similar issue for 17 years, 4 years in same location with same ISP. Now it takes an act of god to even log in, let alone stay logged in.
Tried changing DSN.
Tried using VPN.
Tried just waiting it out (2 weeks).
Nothing helps. Others can log into my char just fine to change zones when I get stuck in black "downloading data" screen, but it just happens again. Sometimes 10 minutes, sometimes an hour. In 17 years, I've been logged in standing around for weeks at a time with no issue, now all of the sudden the game is literally unplayable. What the actual ***?!
Definitely not a router issue. A lot of people in the same area, on the same ISP (myself included) have been having this issue. I've had to resort to playing off of a hotspot as someone else had suggested. I've been having the same issues as others. I haven't tried using my regular connection in a few days now. Been keeping an eye on this thread for a bit now. Might give the ISP a call and see if it can be escalated to network engineering or something...
i really just find it funny that there is a very clear trend of people all having the same ISP having this issue and the ISP refuses to admit there's a problem. still no luck here for the past 5 days
i really just find it funny that there is a very clear trend of people all having the same ISP having this issue and the ISP refuses to admit there's a problem. still no luck here for the past 5 days
It's not an ISP issue. I live nowhere near the people with Optimum that are having the same issue. I also heard from someone yesterday who's in the same boat in Brazil. It's absolutely an issue with SE servers. There is no single fix, what seems to work for some makes no difference to others.
I've since tried changing my IP address, changing routers, talking to ISP, fixing files, reinstalling game. I was using VPN yesterday and still got stuck in "downloading data" screen. It's insane.
Well, I’m glad I’m not alone and came looking for a thread.
I have 6 characters, and 2 of them have this. Those 2 happen to be the guest login characters that I type in manually.
I’ll report my progress after work on attempting these fixes. I’m Canadian and with ISP Bell and have been having internet issues off and on the past 2 months in general.
so two days ago i could still play, i've changed nothing in my network or software wise (only thing changed is my son wanted to play battlefront). Now since yesterday i can login, but as soon as i try to zone into reisenjima i get a connection time-out and i get disconnect during the downloading, if then i try to log in i usually am not able to get into the pol's lobby, this on 2 seperate characters (while my other character is able to zone into reisenjima fine, but when i zone with vienner into reisenjima it all gets stuck). Now here's what i tried this far (be aware, i'm not that great with computers).
-did a pol and ffxi filecheck
-reset my router
-attempted to boot vanilla
-made someone else move me away from reisenjima and after this was done i was able to login i even was able to do a dyna event with my ls, but as soon i try go to reisenjima my game dies
-set my router back to factory settings
-checked to see if it was my firewall
any help?
