Dead Men Walking

Forum Archive 2023 => dMw Gaming => Gaming Archive => World of Warcraft - Dead Men Raiding => Topic started by: Whitey on December 16, 2009, 06:40:22 PM

Title: Connection problems
Post by: Whitey on December 16, 2009, 06:40:22 PM
Is anyone else with BT as their ISP?  I've ruled out "as best I can" any local network issues/firewall etc but I can't traceroute to the eu logon server and am unable to get a connection to WoW.

Before I log a call with BT (which is a very painful experience) I'd like to know if it's a common issue.

Everything else is working fine, I can browse a number of websites and can connect to our CoD4 and CS servers.


Edit:  I did a DNS lookup from my router of eu.logon.worldofwarcraft.com and it comes back with the ip address: 80.239.178.116.  I'm unable to ping that address.  Could someone else give this a try please?
Title: Connection problems
Post by: delankster on December 16, 2009, 07:06:27 PM
have bt and all is well 'ere :)
Title: Connection problems
Post by: Jim on December 16, 2009, 07:12:45 PM
there are some technical difficulties at blizzard atm because my battlegroup, which included my new server, went down and is apparently come back up but the realms aren't on the list....
Title: Connection problems
Post by: OldBloke on December 16, 2009, 07:24:16 PM
Quote from: Whitey;299394... I did a DNS lookup from my router of eu.logon.worldofwarcraft.com and it comes back with the ip address: 80.239.178.116.  I'm unable to ping that address.  Could someone else give this a try please?

I'm with BT and can't ping it either. I get 80.239.180.115
Title: Connection problems
Post by: Whitey on December 16, 2009, 07:56:12 PM
Thanks OB.  I phoned BT and got an automated response that they have had severe issues with their Broadband service and that anyone with problems should switch off their router for 3 minutes and try again, doing that as soon as hit submit.....
Title: Connection problems
Post by: Bastet on December 16, 2009, 09:31:49 PM
The wow servers and most of the other blizzard hubs do not reply to pings. This is to protect them from most common inet attacks as blues posted a while ago.
Title: Connection problems
Post by: Whitey on December 17, 2009, 04:41:36 PM
No other WoW users with BT?
Title: Connection problems
Post by: Bellanie on December 17, 2009, 05:45:02 PM
I'm with BT mate, but i haven't had any problems at all
Title: Connection problems
Post by: Whitey on December 18, 2009, 12:13:01 AM
Too late for the raid tonight but it's now sorted. :)

I don't know what the connection is or why it broke but I had to delete the file dsound.dll in the main WoW folder and that fixed it. :blink:
Title: Connection problems
Post by: JonnyAppleSeed on December 18, 2009, 08:29:18 AM
weird ... glad its fixed :yahoo: