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That does work for me dude, once you open it with notepad it changes to a txt file and you can’t delete/rename .txt extension
This worked for me:
Find your hosts file here: C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts
Copy/paste the hosts file to your desktop.
Rename the file so it becomes “hosts.txt”
Now open the file with notepad. (you need to run as admin if you have that option)
Add this line at the bottom:
174.35.56.164 assetcdn.101.arenanetworks.com
Save the file.
Now rename the file again to delete the .txt so it has no file extension anymore and is just “hosts” again.
Now go replace your old hosts file with this new edited one on your desktop.
If you have the GW2 launcher already open, restart it.This was someone else’s fix, but it worked for me when the Google DNS thing didn’t!
Um.. My host file stayed as a txt file, even when I renamed it again. o_o …Is that bad?
Edit: But that Spotflux worked perfectly!
Gaile it’s not FIOS, I was playing earlier just fine today and when the new game build came up it hosed the game. I can’t get past 100kb of data before the download stalls. I can download updates from other games with out any problems what so ever. It is on ANET’s end.. FIOS isn’t going to answer your emails..
Some players have told us that in the last week, they’ve started having trouble with the client download, or with updates.
Here’s what we posted in another thread:
Background: FIOS has been presenting issues with GW2 for a little over a week now. After collecting a decent amount of data we feel this is going to be a DNS issue on Verizon’s side as players connections are not resolving when hitting the server while on FIOS but can usually resolve when using GoogleDNS or Host file edits.
Suggestion: We suggest that players contact FIOS for help. We have sent an e-mail to FIOS already and we have contacted Verizon but at this time we are still awaiting their responses.
A Work-Around Suggestions from our Server Team: Set your DNS provider to Google (https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using) as that fixes this problem and will continue working into the future.
Thank you for understanding and we wish we could help more directly!
Download Client stalls and doesn't install
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Posted by: slashemfast.9740
OK these fixes are fine and dandy, but there are users out there that aren’t tech savvy at all. GW needs to fix this problem on their end.. This is not right for us to have to wait hours even days to play the new content… Get it together already ANET