I got served!, Damn DNS. Options

[AC9breaker]

So I finally saved up $20 for FFXI CoP. I go and sell 5 games and have enough left over to last me for the rest of the week. I get home install it then get ready to play. I'm sitting there waiting for the POL main menu to show it but it doesn'y come. It just keeps loading and loading and loading. I finally get an error message saying that The server is ether too busy or my connections are not correct. I immediatly run up to my ghetto cpu, and enter command prompt mode.

Type in ipconfig and get the values for my connect all of them show up but one...

connection specifc DNS suffix. The key element to playing online games. So now, im stuck here with a shiney new Cop already installed. Just needeing to be registered and played.

DAM YOU, YOU COMPUTER MAKERS AND COMPLEX TECHNOLOGY!


oh, I'm on cable connection. Im using an ethernet router and have everything set to auto configure. Tried rebooting it to, but no avail. Both the router and the modem. Don't know if that helps any.

[AC9breaker]

I powered cycled the modem and router and it seemed to have worked. I can now play Resident Evil Outbreak and and PSO. But I'm still haviing problems with FFXI. For some reason it doesn't seem to be able my "friend list" and just stays there intill I get an error message. I then retry again and It just keeps loading and get one of two error messages. 0003 that says my Play Online Certificate is having truoble being validated Or POL-Error 1300 which says that the server is ether too busy or my connections are wrong. This is frustrating to the 3rd power.

Im gonna see if there is a way I could complain to Squenix. Could as it seems sevral people in my area seem to be experienceing the same problem too.

*-EDIT> Also I thought maybe it something wrong with my POL. So I just reinstalled POL. So as I log in I have to download everything again from the updates. But eveytime its almost done downloading I get an error message and have to restart the damn thing again.

From what I read at POL website alot of people where affected by this too. They said they fixed the problem but I don't know that since I still have to redownload everything again.