IAmSupernova
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Well there's something going on, somehow these two things are interacting, because I can play other games just fine (for the most part, there is an occasional lag spike) while downloading a torrent, even at speeds upwards of 1MBPS, but, within 5-10 mins of opening a torrent while on FFXI, the game completely loses connection, I don't just get kicked back to the lobby (only calling it that so those who understand might have an idea of what I'm talking about) I get kicked straight out to the login screen.
Ordinarily I'd be fine with just not trying to do both at the same time, unfortunately, the game has a token (a device that produces a 1 time password (that also only lasts so long) and somehow both my account and a friend of mine's got linked under the same token, he pays for both of our accounts, so he keeps the token, when I need a new password I have to call him to get one, and as you can imagine, I can't just call whenever I want... So I leave my character logged in 24/7.
Anyone have any ideas why this particular game might be singled out, over say, Call of Duty World at War? FFXI uses a ridiculously low amount of bandwidth, it's one of the few games that you can play on dial up out there.. Since CoD uses a massively larger amount of bandwidth, and I do not experience this problem with that game, I highly doubt it's a bandwidth issue (also supported by the fact that I can put the download limit to 1KPBS and still be kicked all the same)
Ordinarily I'd be fine with just not trying to do both at the same time, unfortunately, the game has a token (a device that produces a 1 time password (that also only lasts so long) and somehow both my account and a friend of mine's got linked under the same token, he pays for both of our accounts, so he keeps the token, when I need a new password I have to call him to get one, and as you can imagine, I can't just call whenever I want... So I leave my character logged in 24/7.
Anyone have any ideas why this particular game might be singled out, over say, Call of Duty World at War? FFXI uses a ridiculously low amount of bandwidth, it's one of the few games that you can play on dial up out there.. Since CoD uses a massively larger amount of bandwidth, and I do not experience this problem with that game, I highly doubt it's a bandwidth issue (also supported by the fact that I can put the download limit to 1KPBS and still be kicked all the same)