On July 22nd I saw that SE had posted a message saying that many people were having problems logging on and got the POL-1160 message, and that if you got that message you should restart every piece of equipment you have and try again... or just try again later. They were "investigating the issue" and would resolve it as soon as possible.

That's exactly the issue my husband and I were having, to the point that neither of us could log on for about two days. Since I hate calling tech help over the phone (for fear out-sourcing), I used the web chat-- and after about 45 minutes of waiting was told that we needed to configure the router for port forwarding. That didnt' fix the problem. XP

ASAP certainly doesn't seem to include weekends, as POL help is only M-F, and I haven't seen any updates on that message they left on the 22nd.

/sigh

They obviously hire some retarded person to work for POL. Who ever is doing this is some stupid person ><. That person who caused all this should be fired!!!

Well I'm from Quetzalquatl and I was kicked twice tonight. Is there anyone "not" experiencing problems? If not, what server are you on and how long have you been playing today?

I think that it is entirely possible that the servers could have been attacked again...that crap has happened before. All I can tell you is that there are people working on it now and that complaining about it is only going to **** you off more and raise your blood pressure. Plus, if you wanna *****, take it to SE themselves where its useful. Not much anyone here can do about it. Let them know how distraught you are, in here you're just stoking a fire. I've already voiced my opinion to POL saying that at the very least all current players should not be billed for the next month due to their incompetence. I would suggest you follow suit and do the same. If enough people petition them, they might do something...probably not...but maybe. Well, guess its time for Guild Wars, the fun filled MMORPG with
no subscription
no camping monsters
no ********
and henchmen you can use 24/7 instead of 30 minutes every 24hr. day.

>.< I got home today, wasn't planning on playing right away, but thanks to my nifty Firefox browser clock, I saw I still had time to make the full moon(I thought I'd miss it as I was at work when it started and I'm a Gsmither, I need to be as frugal as possible) so I hurry to my PS2, and have been getting this error for about 2 hours. A couple times I actually got the DNS not responding error, but for the most part it's the stupid "check provider" blah blah blah. And yes I use Verizon DSL

lol shekhan i totally agree!!! and i also just talked to someone on the same server as me who was in the same area as me when i dc'd and he is still on the game.. i have no idea what it could be but im starting to think POL is being picky and only booting/not letting certain ppl on... and most of us just wasted a big chunck of the day on this crap.

/cry.....i always thought it would only be me that gets the mess up end of the deal..^^;;;;;..but anywho...this is BS i say we paying money for this and we get NO SERVICE.....DOWN WITH THEM /em gets his pitchfork rdy to kill....=);;

I'm a Charter user and I keep getting:
POL-1160 and POL-0011 errors -.-

Basically I can't connect at all >.>
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ok this is BS now im getting error code POL-0020

I'm sure your connection is fine. POL is down. Can't even access the POL website at the moment.

I have a friend that is using AOL dialup, and he's on and Playing, it's only Verizon DSL from what it looks like to me I just get error coode POL-0021

WTF..., I turn my PS2 on and go to connect and then it ithers stops at the "Checking playonline viewer verson" or where it checks my password name and DNAS..... Been DCing for the last few days when the reading goes all the way down to 0% then like 30 secs later boots me form the game then says lobby surver is down then go to the playonline viewer and takes 30 secs for it to try to load the messages then goes offline with error codes... any one else having that problem too?

OK i also called POL earlier and they put me on hold and i was on for almost 2 hours so finally i hung up .. is it me or is their "elevator music" (on hold music) really crappy lol =P

Well it looks like we all have problems so I guess this applies to everyone right now?
Or are there some ppl online playing still?
Dunno but this *thing* might take up the whole day like the maintenance =(

Can someone please help me???
I keep getting a error message:

POL-0021
DNS server problem. Please check provider documentation, status of DNS server in use, and network settings

Am I the only one who is getting this error? is something wrong with POL or do you think it's me. I checked all of my cables and connections, and if I can sign on here then there is nothing wrong with me.

Please help me out :) thank you.