Don't know if you lucky people who DON'T use Verizon DSL know this, but the people (like me) that do use Verizon DSL are/were BLOCKED by Playonline, via domain name ever since some patch was applied this afternoon...the best part was that Verizon said it was POL and POL said it was Verizon. It was like being in a huge he-said/she-said pissing match. Did nothing but **** me off.
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I am still unable to access, and this happened sometime after 2:00PM this afternoon... they must not like having happy users.
I was left to do some thinking during this down time about SE. Now this is just theory. From how this kind of thing happens, and when updates come out we have severe congestion, and thinking about how the loging process works... when we log in there is probably ONE server for POL, then one server for FFXI player accounts. (causing extreme bottlenecks as the servers try to process all the logons...) Once verified we are then routed to our World Server... being the one which is the area we logged off in... probably old news for some of you all, but I was just giving it some thought tonight. They also must have multiple servers that run different areas of our "world" (since they reboot areas without rebooting the whole world...). Never gave it much thought until today... I am one class away from my degree and today was the last day of two of my classes and I was in a thinking mood I guess! LOL!!
Hope to see you all again some day... if I am ever allowed back on....