For anyone wondering what a network backbone isFollow

For any of you wondering what a network backbone is:

The network backbone at many large sites -where networks can span multiple buildings-usually undergoes many minor upgrades in its lifetime. Most often, the upgrades are simple : You add parts to the backbone, such as additional interface cards in routers or switches.

The simplest upgrade is to add "more of the same." A more radical upgrade has you replacing the router or switch with newer devices of the same general type, perhaps replacing some smaller devices with fewer larger ones. Or you might change the technology of a backbone network, retaining the same backbone routers or switches. In these cases, everything outside the backbone remains the same, and with planning, the disturbance to users and system administrators is minimized.

The most radical upgrade would be to replace routers with switches (or vice versa), to deploy ATM as the primary backbone or to deploy virtual LANs (VLANs) widely, for example. These types of changes require modifications to the configuration of every computer on the network. The network and system changes must be coordinated, requiring extensive work with system administrators. With luck, you might find some lengthy down time and enlist all the system administrators in order to accomplish the necessary changes at once. But, more likely, you'll make the changes over time, moving the network and systems to the new scheme LAN by LAN.

Why you would update your backbone:

To address poor performance
To gain superior performance
To provide the performance required by new applications
To provide the performance required by planned expansion
To increase the reliability of the network

This is a great explanation of why we will wait patiently for this maintenance period.

sadly, i give it 3 minutes before some 'omfg, do u wurk for se? stop defending them u losers lol' troll pops in

I rated you up, but let's face it:

If SE said "We will be taking all worlds down for 10 minutes while we send 100,000,000 gil to everyone's Delivery Box", you'd still hear

"OMG I can't play for 10 minutes!"
"They did this in NA prime because they favor JP"
"Man, and I was off of work today too"
"Man, now I can't xp"

etc ad infinitum.

Even when the updates and maintenances are for valid reasons, people will ALWAYS complain.

Thats because most everyone on this forum acts like a child, weather they are or not. I'm just happy it isn't as prevalent in the game.

Thank you for the explanation. I was wondering what exactly they were doing and what you mentioned makes sense. I would imagine that they have in fact been doing minor changes prior to this major equipment exchange. Personally I don't mind waiting through more maintenance if it is going to make things better. Alot of people are upset that there has been so much downtime but its pretty clear they have been trying very hard to fix and improve everything. Well back I go to play some more need for speed underground 2 for another hour til I can log in :)

P.S. SE please make the next maintenance another day besides thursday,I've missed two dynamis runs since thursday is our set day ~.^ If not I will get over it I suppose :P

lol, that was your problem, you tried to network a printer. those things are the most trouble of all imo (and i have a networking degree lol)

OMG I logged in and sure enough,my 100,000,000 gil was there,ONE GODDAMN GIL A TIME. /cry

Yay, a less ************ thread about maintenance.



I totally agree, there should be a age restriction on FFXI, like 20+ perhaps. That might just eliminate all the immatureness.