I have considered doing some port forwarding to see if that alleviates the issue but I'm hardly tech-savvy and do not know the specific port numbers I need to look for.
I used these
TCP 25, 110, and 443 for e-mail
TCP 80 for web access
And dynamic ports 50000 to 65535 for various communications
UDP ports 50000-65535 for various communications
There should be a setting to allow you to specify that when your computer requests a port, it will trigger the rule to allow access activating all the other ports for a specific communication with a server. You can set it so that one or more of these ports will trigger the rule:
TCP 51220 (Authentication Login)
TCP 53001 (FFXI Patch Connection)
TCP 54001 (FFXI Connection)
TCP 51300 (PlayOnline Menu Update)
TCP 54000 (PlayOnline Patch Connection)
TCP 51240 (PlayOnline Redirection Connection)
or you can just set it as a range from 51000 to 55000 TCP
Had a similar issue, port forwarding didn't resolve DMZ did