I have been playing this game for awhile but not until recently have I had problems with it. It started when I bought my laptop that has well beyond and then some what it takes to run the game. I would be playing every once in awhile and boom! FFXI is not working or has stopped responding and I get kicked. This has been going on for 4 months off and on. Well the whole month of DEC I didn't get kicked but like 2 times so I was good.
Then all the sudden SE made the new DEC patch and ever since its been really bad. Right now I'm just trying to solo because I don't want to bother any partys that need a tank who DCs every fight. I am now getting DCed like every 1-5 minutes mostly when I start a fight or start casting a bunch of spells. I run VISTA with a great laptop um... I don't know what I can say that will help you out very much.
Thank you in advance I'm going on leave for the next 10 days in the hope that it will be fixed by the time I get back. I just really doubt that however.