Connection Issue from South KoreaFollow

Too many zerglings?

Sorry, I'll lay off the stereotypes

Can somebody post that site with the 'worldwide internet health' that would always show internet status in most of Asia as, for lack of a better term, 'cluster-@#%^ed'?

Edited, Aug 28th 2008 2:55am by Ranzear

I'm in Seoul, South Korea also and I haven't been able to log in today either. I'm also getting the POL-1160 error.

I've been playing from South Korea for the past three years and have never had a problem before. Not sure what could be going on...

Wow, other people here who play FFXI! That's really cool. I assume you're either teachers or soldiers. We should get together. But after we can connect again. Still can't here, it's been about 10 hours now.

Taiwan has always been fine.

I don't know about this week though, since im using a borrowed laptop.

I'm caught in it now too ><;

Edited, Aug 29th 2008 3:28am by Gitanti

So anybody have any luck getting a hold of SE to at least figure out what the error code means? Every time I try I forget the time zone difference and they are closed.

Edit: BTW, I tried reinstalling on my PS3 and I get to the same point the 1160 code pops up on PC but on PS3 I get a 0006 code instead. I imagine they mean the same thing but just coded different for the different versions.

Edited, Aug 29th 2008 12:53pm by Gitanti

same problem!

anyone fix?

I have KT telecom internet (Fiber Optic)

I been having this problem since Friday afternoon (KST)

still having it, tried reinstalling, cut my firewall, etc, nada.

So, I contacted SE...

I gave them my IP address and they told me that the address has been restricted and I needed to contact my internet service provider. SE also gave me a list of port numbers that needed to be unrestricted in order to connect to POL. According to SE, once I contacted my internet provider and gave them the port numbers, the connection problem would be solved. The numbers were:

TCP
25
80
110
443
50000-65535

UDP
50000-65535

I use KT for my internet access, so I contacted them. The English customer service center seemed to be able to understand my problem, and they are sending a technician to my apartment today (Saturday) at 5:00 to check my port connections.

I also informed KT that this was not an isolated incident with me, and that others in Korea are also having the same problem.

For now, I'll just have to wait until the technician arrives to see what they will do about this. I assumed, perhaps incorrectly, that if I gave KT the port numbers over the phone they would be able to "switch" them on and all would be right in the world again. But, I guess it's not that easy.

I was also informed that the technician will not speak English, so this should be fun...

I thought korean people played wow >.> im half korean >.>

Thanks for the IM Spooktc. If I have any difficulties with the technician while he's here, I'll give you a call.

The English customer service number is 02-520-7800. A woman will answer (always seems to be the same one) and once you explain the issue, she will transfer you to technical help. The gentleman at technical help also speaks English well.

Maybe if we all bombard the service center with calls, they will get the fix a little faster. Even though the gentleman on the technical help line said he understood my problem, and he said he would explain it to the technician, I have a feeling that the technician who will come to my apartment won't be able to do much, or won't be able to find a problem...

So you being a stereotyping douche bag is "ok" since you're half korean.

Hey can you refer me to the service guy so they can get a mass-fix going? Y7499038
thats my service number.

I tried getting through by phone and they kept having busy tones