Alright, I recently started logging into Nexus since my sister bought a 1-month registration code for me (haha, what an idiot; I'll never pay for this game again
) and when I re-installed the game and tried to play, I couldn't connect to the game. In fact, the EXACT same thing that happened to Sodjiro happened to me: I would open Nexus, the "News" (lulz) pop-up would appear, I'd click "Play Nexus", the game executes, and a black screen with a pop-up saying "Entering the Nexus... It may take a couple of minutes" appears. At this point, it would freeze for about 20 seconds, until finally another pop-up saying "You are unable to enter the Nexus right now. Try again soon," with click-able 'Reconnect' and 'Leave' boxes.
At first, I thought this was due to my REAAAAALLLLLLLY crappy internet. You see, I'm in rural North Africa right now (the Mediterranean coast of Libya) and the only way to connect to the net here is by using my cell phone's GPRS modem and tethering that to my laptop. This gives me very very very slow internet speeds. So when I couldn't connect to the game, I thought that was the reason why.
When Brant posted the link to the Hotspot Shield in this thread, I didn't try it at first. I had an earlier version of Hotspot Shield but didn't bother with trying that either -- I was certain my slow internet was the issue. However, when someone posted on this thread again, I thought to myself, "I might as well download the program in case I ever need it" and upon downloading it (with my extremely slow internet, IDM for the win
), curiosity got the best of me and I decided to install it and try it out. Lo and behold, after I connected to Hotspot Shield, I could easily connect to Nexus.
The thing is, now my 1500ms ping, 20kb/s download, and 10kb/s upload connection (rofl, so bad) now needs to proxy to another server (or whatever HSS does), which leaves me with a ping of 2973ms and <20kb/s DL, <10kb/s UL speeds when playing Nexus. That's putting salt in the wound for me; because I want to get as fast a connection as possible while I'm here and while I'm registered and/or playing Nexus. Basically, I want to find out why I can't connect to Nexus without HSS, so I can fix the problem and connect directly. As I've said, I'm using a tethered phone modem (meaning no router, so no possible router-caused issues), and I've already opened up the appropriate Nexus ports on my Comodo software-firewall. The only thing I can think of is that it's an ISP issue. The Libyan Telecom & Technology ISP really blows, so that's a very plausible cause. That being said, I'd like to know exactly what HSS does to change my connection so I can go to the ISP and be specific in my instructions to get this problem permanently fixed.
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