Guild Wars 2

I don’t get a static IP from my ISP so my IP changes 2-3 times a day. I somewhat improved this by letting the router re-establish a connection on it’s own terms during night time when I don’t care but I still get an IP change at least once a day.
Consequently, I have to authenticate my network at least once every day via email code and the “remember network” option effectively does nothing.

Is there any way to fix this? It’s really annoying.

No idea where I should ask this so sorry for defaulting to general discussion.

If your IP is wildly changing, it’s going to want authentication. There is no fix to that, as it’s working as intended. If you’re always choosing to remember the IP however, it should eventually stop.

If you switch to using a desktop authenticator, you can skip the email step, so it’ll be a little faster.

Well I’d hope maybe to convince them to use geoip or find out about a different solution. Can I disable authentication in my account settings somewhere? (didn’t find it).

Your changing IP address should be within a range (of 0 – 220 or so) and the email authentication will eventually learn that range (as long as you keep remembering) and stop asking.

If you want to change to SMS or other authentication, you can contact the CS Team via the ‘Support’ link above/below and ‘Submit a Request’ for assistance.

FYI: This kind of thread would belong in the Account Support sub-forum.

Good luck.

I can confirm that mine used to do that too. Now that is has remembered enough IPs, I haven’t had that notification for months.

PS: It’s probably a good idea to keep the authenticator, now that you’ve posted that you’re looking to disable it, you’ve just put a target on your back for hackers.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Your changing IP address should be within a range (of 0 – 220 or so) and the email authentication will eventually learn that range (as long as you keep remembering) and stop asking.

If you want to change to SMS or other authentication, you can contact the CS Team via the ‘Support’ link above/below and ‘Submit a Request’ for assistance.

FYI: This kind of thread would belong in the Account Support sub-forum.

Good luck.

So in like 2/3rds of a year if I log in every day? Quickest fix ever ;D

Thanks for your replies guys. Maybe I get lucky and they’ll patch it somehow (this is the only game I have this issue with but not the only game that uses 2factor authentication I have. The Steam client for example doesn’t bother at all). Perhaps another method will make this more convenient.

Would be glad if a mod could kindly move this to Account support then.

It doesn’t take 2/3 of a year. Maybe a few weeks at most. (Unless you only log in once a month or two, I guess.)