anyone else besides me having connection problems? i try to connect to guild wars and it says connecting to arenanet and it stays at 0%. so i thought id just reinstall gw. now when i try and install it says contacting arenanet...the status bar moves for about 2:24 seconds and then it stops and sits there doing nothing. anyone have any idea what im doing wrong...all firewalls are off. im running it as an admin(vista) everything and i just cant connect. i let it sit for 5 hours once. and nothing! whats going on. apparently alot of people are having trouble connecting to both gw and other mmo's. is this a mass mmo server failure. i cant connect to archlord patch server cant connect to gw cant connect to Fury online barely connected to eve online. yet all of my games that are not mmos work fine online. supreme commande...CRYSIS...age of empires. is it possible that arenanet is having serious server issues and does anyone know if the archlord servers are blocking ip's?

I'm not experiencing any issues. By the sounds of it its your connection considering you can't connect to so many games. It could also be your ISP blocking ports or something along those lines, so you'll have to contact them and see if the problem persists.

Considering you got problems with connecting to all other MMOs the problem may occur because something is "eating" your internet connection. It definitely sounds like it's some problem that you got, and not the servers, since there is no real connection between the EVE Online servers and the Fury ones. I would suggest you to go through your programs to see if you're downloading something else at the same time, if anything else takes a lot of internet connection or if anyone else is using the internet a lot. Apart from that I agree with Lydon.

I and a few friends have started experiencing some connection problems as of late. It's gotten to the point where one of my friends can't connect anymore and I connect with a very high ping, which isn't good when you're playing an assassin. Empathy + Lag = Death.

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Originally posted by Lydon
I and a few friends have started experiencing some connection problems as of late. It's gotten to the point where one of my friends can't connect anymore and I connect with a very high ping, which isn't good when you're playing an assassin. Empathy + Lag = Death.

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Some day ago me and my friends also suffered from quite severe lag. Trying to play ranger and spiking in HA with 3k+ ping can become quite tricky; and considering whole our team suffered from such high lag we were likely to not manage very well. Luckily enough for us it did however end after a short time and we were able to continue; and get fame. But I think the lag and high ping may have something to do with Anets server hosts upgrading their servers, however I can't now find the link to where I saw about it.

Two days ago we had a very interesting AB experience. Literally every single person on the map was lagging so badly that they were moving backwards. We all made it through the teleports but our characters refused to move forward for a few minutes. Was pretty interesting.

or maybe it has something to do with  Guild Wars 2...