Connection hanging on load screens. Will not Progress past 0%.

Just recently I have been hanging at 0% on many loading screens. IE: It will just say Connecting-0% forever and never progress past this. This is for areas I have already been to and should be in my GW.dat. If I actually load my connection ping is as normal, it's just the loading thats hanging. This problem seems to happen randomly about 1/3rd of the time. Pretty much renders GW unplayable. the other 2/3rd of the time things load almost instantly.

I am not a tech noob. I have already tested to make sure it wasn't firewalls, router ports, or anything else that may be sapping my connection. My connection is perfectly fine and I tested my connection ping and rate and found nothing unusual. all games including even the Starcraft 2 beta works fine and lord knows if SC2 beta works fine everything else should also be working considering how bad the last patch was. I should note that I even conducted speed tests WHILE gw was running in the background and hanging and found nothing wrong, so it can be said with 99% certainty that there is nothing wrong with my internet connection.

Could this be a corrupted GW.dat, is this something serverside I can do nothing about, or is this something a bit more obscure?

I got the same problem. Sometimes it hangs for 10 sec. at 0% before it jumps to 100.

In my case it will never ever stop hanging. If it takes longer than 30 seconds I know the loading will never complete. Searched around the net and it seems this is a rare problem with no known working solutions.

sucks.

Now that I tried a bit more I notice that I'm also crashing alot. It seems the loading screen either hangs or crashes with the whole send-anet-report box coming up.

I have a smilier problem, sometimes it gets stuck on 100% and doesn't let me load the map. The game is still responding , I can hear the music, but the map just doesn't load up.