Square Enix is performing a Final Fantasy XI maintenance tomorrow on October 18th. The maintenace will start at 10:00 and last for five hours to 15:00 (PDT). All servers will be offiline during the maintenace.
Once this maintenance is completed, the client update will start automatically after logging back into Final fantasy XI. Just follow the instructions that appear on your screen. You may receive errors such as "POL-1160" or "POL-0010" during the download process due to heavy server traffic. If you are unable to access the update, they ask that you please wait a while and then try again.
Here are the estimated download times for the different platforms and version:
[File size for clients with "Chains of Promathia" and "Treasures of Aht Urhgon" installed.]
[File size for clients without "Chains of Promathia" and "Treasures of Aht Urhgon" installed.]
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