Is POL working for you?Follow

I just finished downloading the COP patch through the use of HTTP tunnel. I am gonna see if I can get the game to connect.

I have been able to see the ffxi shortcut crystal in POL before by going about things normally... It's too laggy to do much after, especially since it took an hour to download the latest file list thing.

I was able to log into my characters through HTTP tunnel, but the bandwidth limitations make me play like a laggy noob. My plants are OK. Looks like my first tree cutting is about to be harvestable soon.
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Retrieving friend's list atm ; ;

Edited, Wed Sep 29 19:03:54 2004 by Mday

I just wanna update for everyone what i heard at work today (I work at a videogame store and this is pretty reliable). A regular customer who is also an avid FFXI player with whom i discuss the game, came in upset about the ordeal as well. He is in networking for a living and has friends who work for OO as techs. He called them personally and they said OO was making ppl work thru last night on the problem and they didn't even realize how much of their customer base played this game. Apparently a large percentage of the game's NE american players are OO users and they heard fromm A LOT of them yesterday. I know this guy and his word is good as gold so yes they are working on it if that is any consolation. But then again i guess fixing it would be better consolation ><

-Smacky

Edited, Wed Sep 29 19:06:59 2004 by DragoonSmacky

This is Really Pissing me off, I want to F%$#@ play!!!

All customer service for any company generally isn't very helpul ^^;; The people you are complaining too, speaking from past experiences, know little to nothing about the problem.

It almost seems like some of you are ready to take tourches over to opt online o.O Yes, we're frustrated we can't play, yes it sucks, but cursing off people or posting page after page of complaints and rumors isn't going to bring back the game right away.

Guess we should all just sit tight and have faith that opt online is doing what they're saying they're doing.

MutherF(&*^)#$&$#( SH*#A@%Sonofa*$&# Barbara Streisand!!!!! Nn..Need...2...Plaaaayyyuhhh FFXI!!!

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(sob) sniff! sniff! :-(

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Edited, Wed Sep 29 19:28:38 2004 by Clorinda

Ok, its not very helpful, but I'll add my customer service experience. I connected to Optimum Online through their online chat mode and spoke to a Tech. He said they are aware of the problem, then he asked me if he could connect directly to my computer to run some tests.
He went to the command prompt, did a few pings on POL and FFXI a few traces and some other stuff (even being fairly computer savvy, I didnt understand everything). Well all being said and done, It had no problem connecting to POL or FFXI servers. He said that there was no problem and I should be able to connect. It appears that they are just as confused as us.
Not very helpful but he said that everyone who connected to them online who let them run tests on their pc (even though I use PS2) they can take that info they received from the pings, traces, etc. and go to Sony with them and try to figure out a workaround. Which they are already in the process of doing, but i guess if others did it, more data for them couldnt hurt
-Sleek

If anyone knows anyone that works up in the upper tiers of techsupport, perhaps having them witness what POL and FFXI actually does may accelerate the process. I am sure anyone that has the game working there is smart enough to figure out that's the fastest way to solve things.

still no luck sniff sniff
crtl-1
/ja "provoke" <t>
commere you stupid lil <t>


sniff sniff

Well i just talked to an online rep for OO



They gave me that script bs til i said

Me: Im Reading an online FF forum and it seems people are getting no response from both ends can you plz explain why?
<pause 2 minutes>
OORep: Is there anything else i can help you with regarding Optimum Online?
Me: .........
Me: Yah the number for Verizon DSL

must gahhhhh!

crtl 1
commere u stupil lil OO tech!
/ws "fastblade"
this is faster than your tech supprot! gahhhhh!

Detic defeats the OO tech

i just drove over to my friend's house with my laptop and tried to connect to FFXI from his OOL connection... no go

see the thing that is pissing me off even more now, is the fact he can connect to both counter-strike and lineage 2

I'm not saying I'm satisfied with opt online, but they are the fastest most reliable connection in my area out of all the others I have tried.

Looks like I haven't missed much since I've been in class.

I love OptOnline's speed, but this is just rediculous. Whatever they did, they should just undo. But apparently it's a bit more then that.


Guess I'll go beat up some cute Nintendo characters in the meantime.