Please help me figure this out, it is driving me nuts. I came back home after the summer, ready to play some GW. When I started it up, it is just sitting at a screen which says "Connecting to Arenanet" and stays at 0%. Everywhere I look people just say it is a firewall issue. However, GW.exe is an exception on my firewall, and it did nothing. Then I disabled my firewall completely, still nothing. I ran a diagnostic test on GW and as far as I can tell, here is the problem:
= Discovering external address
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Connect failed
Completed in 10.03 seconds
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= Checking server connectivity
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Diag.ArenaNetworks.com
206.127.147.153:6112 - connect failed
216.107.245.41:6112 - connect failed
216.107.245.77:6112 - connect failed
206.127.146.41:6112 - connect failed
206.127.147.153:80 - connect failed
216.107.245.41:80 - connect failed
216.107.245.77:80 - connect failed
206.127.146.41:80 - connect failed
File1.ArenaNetworks.com
216.107.245.113:6112 - connect failed
216.107.245.41:6112 - connect failed
216.107.245.77:6112 - connect failed
216.107.245.113:80 - connect failed
216.107.245.41:80 - connect failed
216.107.245.77:80 - connect failed
Auth1.ArenaNetworks.com
216.107.245.70:6112 - connect failed
216.107.245.84:6112 - connect failed
216.107.245.86:6112 - connect failed
216.107.245.87:6112 - connect failed
216.107.245.117:6112 - connect failed
216.107.245.118:6112 - connect failed
216.107.245.119:6112 - connect failed
216.107.245.120:6112 - connect failed
216.107.245.121:6112 - connect failed
216.107.245.70:80 - connect failed
216.107.245.84:80 - connect failed
216.107.245.86:80 - connect failed
216.107.245.87:80 - connect failed
216.107.245.117:80 - connect failed
216.107.245.118:80 - connect failed
216.107.245.119:80 - connect failed
216.107.245.120:80 - connect failed
216.107.245.121:80 - connect failed
Completed in 30.09 seconds
If anyone needs to see more of the diagnostic test, let me know.
No matter what I try, nothing is working. I really want to play GW but this is getting really frustrating. Someone please help me out!
Please Help, Can't connect to Arenanet at all!
Shattuck
tigzzz
I had the same problem for a while. I solved it by deleting the gw.dat file. I had to re-download everything, but it worked. I might also recommend trying a complete uninstall and reinstall.
Shattuck
Thanks for the tip, I actually figured out a different way to do it though. I disabled Windows Firewall completely, stopped it, then went into the command prompt and deleted sharing. Then I downloaded a new firewall (Comodo) and restarted my computer. For some reason that did the trick. Or at least it seems to, I am now waiting on an update to finish downloading (haven't played the game in about 6 months) so I will report back here when it is finished, if it actually works.
Kumu Honua
Did you happen to install PeerGuardian2? It's defaults block all traffic to guildwars.