Curse

Slayer9123 · Jan 20, 2006, 12:14 PM // 12:14

Anyone heard of this before? It is happening randomly to me tonight. It happened first time after a couple minutes and the second time after half an hour. I am thinking maybe it has something to do with the updates and heaps of new accounts but I can't find any info on it whatsoever.

EDIT>>>> well I am guessing now that this is some sort of connection error as I can't even connect now. Wonderful :P

Slayer9123 · Jan 21, 2006, 12:59 AM // 00:59

Well well... looks like a restart fixed the problem.

Some weird network problems have been happening since I started playing Guild Wars.

For instance in the middle of the game I got disconnected and came back to Windows and my D-link 200 USB modem was like it was not connected. Just red flashing lights and acted like it wasn't there so no network. I restarted and was fine. That has never happened before in 18 months like that so I am pretty darn sure it was Guild Wars that did it.

Also when I go to start playing Guild Wars and it won't connect, if I minimize GW and go to check out support or the forums here I can not surf the web or use any networking service, not e-mail or anything. Obviously the trying to connect is taking over the whole connection somehow. If it GW is connected already I can surf and everything while playing the game. In case I want to look up map info or whatever.

Dex · Jan 21, 2006, 01:38 AM // 01:38

Guild Wars uses a regular old socket to communicate through the Windows TCP/IP stack just like almost every other app that uses your network connection. If it's causing problems with your USB modem it probably has more to do with the virtual network adapter being created by your device driver for the modem. Depending on the architecture of the driver it may be waiting for a response from the socket GW is using and causing the process running the driver to hang until it times out. If possible you might have better luck connecting to the modem via an ethernet adapter in your computer, that way it's communicating with your modem via standard TCP/IP instead of using some funky 3rd-party USB device driver.

Slayer9123 · Jan 21, 2006, 02:59 AM // 02:59

Yeah, I am thinking seriously about getting a regular ethernet modem as this modem has drove me crazy now for nearly 19 months :P