12-08-2004, 04:38 PM
From what I know, the "Realms Down" is not really Realms being down.
Rather, it's from entering and exiting games consecutively within a span of a few minutes. You're probably doing the runs from game to game quite quickly. (I can force getting the Realm Down message just by clicking each of my 8 characters in the account/character selection screen successively ==> that is, click/select the 1st character, press Esc to exit, select/click next character and continue that up to the 8th character).
Before you click on the 8th character, you'll get a Realms Down message.
Since I'm using a Dial-Up connection, what I do is to disconnect (dial-up modem) from my ISP (Internet Service Provider) and then redial the ISP (which seems to give me a new IP address). That way, I don't have to wait xx minutes before the Realm Down message appears again.
Rather, it's from entering and exiting games consecutively within a span of a few minutes. You're probably doing the runs from game to game quite quickly. (I can force getting the Realm Down message just by clicking each of my 8 characters in the account/character selection screen successively ==> that is, click/select the 1st character, press Esc to exit, select/click next character and continue that up to the 8th character).
Before you click on the 8th character, you'll get a Realms Down message.
Since I'm using a Dial-Up connection, what I do is to disconnect (dial-up modem) from my ISP (Internet Service Provider) and then redial the ISP (which seems to give me a new IP address). That way, I don't have to wait xx minutes before the Realm Down message appears again.