Taiwan earthquake = Goodbye Astara!

On Boxing day Taiwan had a massive undersea earthquake that severed 98% of the cables between the Asia-Pacific route. The past 3 days Ive been completely blocked from connecting to POL but have managed to make it to the select character screen before the connection stalled and since then the program has yet to make it past the first stage of logging in.

I contacted POL and they informed me that the ISP provider that connects Australia to the FF servers has been lost and it will take upto 4-6 weeks before any substantial connection is re-established. It looks like myself and according to this post >>> http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/forum.html?forum=10;mid=116738308210605002;num=22;page=1 many other Aussie players will be having a forced summer vacation from FFXI!

This article sums it up!
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/12/29/asia/AS_GEN_Asia_Disconnected.php


/orz....see you all again soon. HAPPY NEW YEAR!