All Worlds Emergency Maintenance (Jun. 1)

[Rajwa]

Also, I have been able to log in just fine before during SEs server congestion while others had trouble logging in for hours. Must mean its the individual and not SE eh? Even when SE confirm its due to the server.

[ringthree]

If I remember right, the DDoS attacks didn't necessarily DC everyone either. So I guess that was caused by people's individual connections?


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I don't know a whole lot about internet connectivity, but I don't think you do either.

[ringthree]

Also, I have been able to log in just fine before during SEs server congestion while others had trouble logging in for hours. Must mean its the individual and not SE eh? Even when SE confirm its due to the server.

I don't think SE has ever "confirmed" anything was due to server problems. Unless you are talking about when server's have actually reached their max capacity, and unless you are on Odin you haven't experienced it.

You are kind of making the assumption that the tubes of the internet go directly from your router to SE, and that there are no other connections in between.

The net is vast and infinite!

[Spekkio]

it's entirely possible they're all on the same ISP that has some botched routing. i remember dealing with one support call where the individual was complaining that they couldn't get their email. tracerting the hops to the server i found 2 routers on the path that believed each other was the next hop to reach the destination server. pingponged back and forth between them till the message timed out. it wasn't a server problem, but it would certainly affect many people on the same ISP. i'm not claiming that this is what's happening here (otherwise you'd never be able to get on) only that multiple people with spotty connections do not represent conclusive proof of a server problem, even if it does increase the likelihood.

[Rajwa]

You are kind of making the assumption that the tubes of the internet go directly from your router to SE, and that there are no other connections in between.

The net is vast and infinite!

No I'm not, I know perfectly well how the internet works. When over a dozen people from 3 separate places of the globe are all experiencing identical problems at identical times that is either a really huge coincidence, or there is a center source to the issue. Since none of us could in anyway use the same ISP we can rule that out, since we are on 3 separate continents you can rule out a region issue. None of us experience any connectivity issues with any other online service at that time other than FFXI.

And in the past every update resulted in SE releasing a note with "server congestion". So I don't know what you mean they have never confirmed it.

[isladar]

I don't know a whole lot about internet connectivity, but I don't think you do either.

Let's just quote this here thing right dere.

[ringthree]

No I'm not, I know perfectly well how the internet works. When over a dozen people from 3 separate places of the globe are all experiencing identical problems at identical times that is either a really huge coincidence, or there is a center source to the issue. Since none of us could in anyway use the same ISP we can rule that out, since we are on 3 separate continents you can rule out a region issue. None of us experience any connectivity issues with any other online service at that time other than FFXI.

And in the past every update resulted in SE releasing a note with "server congestion". So I don't know what you mean they have never confirmed it.

I tried to write a post in response to this, but I know that your response is just going to be "No way, it happened to me and my friends, therefore it must be true" so instead I am going to write a limerick.

There once was a man from Nantucket,
Who put all his tubes in a bucket,
An internet he'd win,
he thought with a grin,
but he just turned out to be some fucking kid that doesn't know what the fuck he is talking about.

Picard out.

[Viq]

Bravo, limerick man

[Thorny]

I tried to write a post in response to this, but I know that your response is just going to be "No way, it happened to me and my friends, therefore it must be true" so instead I am going to write a limerick.

There once was a man from Nantucket,
Who put all his tubes in a bucket,
An internet he'd win,
he thought with a grin,
but he just turned out to be some fucking kid that doesn't know what the fuck he is talking about.

Picard out.

i love you

[Stumps]

So about this improper method of obtaining gil, or is someone in the middle of writing a scathing retort the the limerick in order to defend his e-manhood.

[isladar]

Haiku will not cut it, just a heads up.

[Aksannyi]

That makes me so sad.
I had one all planned out, now-
You have dashed my dreams.

[isladar]

Ringthree has explained
You cannot shot internet
Aksannyi loves cock

[Aksannyi]

<3

[Mizango]

Mad skillz.

[Deband]

There was a young man from Italy
Who sat all day reading BG
He thought he was cool
But he was still at school
He was fat and his name was Ringthree

[Linktri]

I don't think Italy and Ringthree rhyme.

[Deband]

Well i tried

[Ultimagi]

It-ahl-ee
Bee-gee
Ring-three
Doesn't rhyme?

[BunkMonk]

If it's not people's individual connections, how do you explain all the people that haven't had any R0 issues the past few days? Sure, a lot of people R0 at once, but if it were a server issue, everyone would have, not just some. At a Khimaira the other day, half the alliance R0ed at the same time... but that also means half the alliance did not (myself included).

In my defense, I never said it was server wide. I simply said I don't believe it is our individual connections While the mass R0's were happening in WG, people in my shell in other zones were perfectly fine. Seems to only affect specific zones.

Also, I never actually DC'd, but I was getting R0's every 20 seconds or so