Guild Wars 2

Watson.6492:

MakeYouMad.5301:

Watson.6492:

Updated my post with some information relating to the VPN solution. Long story short, it works, and you don’t need to stay connected to it.

Without the VPN my connection returns to insufferable 0-50KB/s speeds.

What type of ISP provider do you have and where are you located?

Thanks!

Yidrizon Wireless, Northeast. Sorry to hear that. Hopefully it works for other people.

I’m on Verizon Fios @ NorthEast.

here is what i’m getting:

non-vpn connection:
http://imgur.com/RVV4kaO

vpn connection:
http://imgur.com/RsCpFMk

I tip my fedora to you Arena Net.

Watson.6492:

Updated my post with some information relating to the VPN solution. Long story short, it works, and you don’t need to stay connected to it.

Without the VPN my connection returns to insufferable 0-50KB/s speeds.

What type of ISP provider do you have and where are you located?

Thanks!

This is unbearable, I don’t want to be connected to some “FreeVPN” to download this game. This means my computer is unusable throughout the whole download process – unacceptable. [Can’t use steam/Battlenet w/ VPN :^)]

ArenaNet plis comment on solution.

plis responde

Elio.6073:

RadiantPrism.2861:

MakeYouMad.5301:

To anyone still having this problem, I’ve found a (janky) solution. I was a bit skeptical of it at first, but it fixed this problem for me; I’m downloading at 1.5MB/sec now.

Confirmed, works!

Confirmed as well it works, but I am not able to log in successfully due to error. Download of client/update ok so I can’t be totally mad.

Yea that’s expected to not be able to connect to the login server. Once the game has been fully updated I’m assuming we’ll be able to play w/o the use of the VPN.

I found this solution to be a…temporary workaround (wtf arena net…). Thank you slemnd.7986 for the solution:

To anyone still having this problem, I’ve found a (janky) solution. I was a bit skeptical of it at first, but it fixed this problem for me; I’m downloading at 1.5MB/sec now.

You can try connecting through a free VPN. This just requires you to temporarily set up a network connection on your computer. (See http://www.vpnbook.com/freevpn for more info) You can delete this connection after the download completes.

- Go to Control Panel > Network and Sharing Center
- Click on “Set up a new connection or network”
- Select “Connect to a workplace” and click Next
- Select “User my Internet connection (VPN)”
- Paste the below into the “Internet address:” box and click next (Note, this address may change in the future, check http://www.vpnbook.com/freevpn for the latest servers)

us1.vpnbook.com

- Enter the following username and password, check the “Remember this password” box, and click “Connect”:

vpnbook
Zu6Adebu

And you should be good to go. Just wanted to share this solution since this was a fairly frustrating affair and I was happy to finally have it resolved.

Note that the password is bound to be changed. So depending on the time you’re looking at this post the password may have been modified, verify it on http://vpnbook.com/freevpn

HOWEVER THIS SOLUTION ISNT APPROPRIATE AND ARENA NET NEEDS TO COMMENT :^). WHY SHOULD I BE USING A VPN TO ACCESS US SERVERS (LOL?)

I just recently bought the Digital Delux Package from the Guildswars2.com website, and I was able to download the client to one of my directories H:\Games\GuildWars2.

However, everytime I start the client to install the game, it’s stuck in limbo doing some sort of client update first (i guess).

I’ve added Gw2setup.exe to my Antivirus/Maleware Exclusions (for ESET Nod32 and Malewarebytes) and even into the Windows Firewall. The client downloads about 1.x~ mb and then the connection gets dropped or something stops it.

I’ve attached an image related to the problem.

http://imgur.com/RKZlxAa

I kept the client running for about 10-20 minutes and it restarted the client update download, but eventually it gave me a <Connection Error! Retrying> message on the client.

I’ve restarted the client w/ admin rights and the same problem exists.

Is this a server side issue?