Network Timeout during account login in patcher

[Meuda]

<p>Before I left college for winter break, EQ2 worked fine without a hitch. At home during winter break, it also worked fine. But now that I'm back on campus, I cannot get the game to log in. The game gives me a "Network Timeout" error during the authentication process in log in. I've disabled my firewall, but still no dice. Any advice?</p><p>Thanks,</p><p>Walker</p>

[Meuda]

<p>UPDATE: For reasons completely unknown to me, EQ2 now works perfectly. Not that I'm complaining.</p><p>After many brute force attempts of trying to log on over and over, it now logs on fine for normal EQ2 and Beta</p>

[TSR-DanielH]

<p><cite>Meudayr wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>UPDATE: For reasons completely unknown to me, EQ2 now works perfectly. Not that I'm complaining.</p><p>After many brute force attempts of trying to log on over and over, it now logs on fine for normal EQ2 and Beta</p></blockquote><p>You mention being at a University, but are you using on-campus housing?  If so, it seems likely that your University is blocking some of the ports used by the game to connect.  In most cases you can get around that with a few attempts as you noticed, but the only way to prevent it completely would be to have the network admin open those ports.  Let us know if you have any questions.</p>