I hope this isn't illegal. I've posted this information on two threads in the Forums and once on beta forum.
Fascinating. I have Comcast and am experiencing very slow logins plus trouble with Chat inside the game. I have several cities on the US servers, but am working exclusively on Winyandor at the moment.
Below is what I posted on the beta forums regarding my problems with Chat and what happened when I tried my VPN.
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"Somewhere in my travels trying to figure out what happened to Elvenar's Chat in my city, someone suggested trying a VPN. I have a VPN, but wasn't using it for Elvenar. "Hey, I'll try it!" I declared. Tally ho! and off I go into the wild blue yonder.
The VPN allowed me to login to Elvenar, view Chat and do anything I wanted to here in the game. I logged out feeling I'd overcome the No Chat problem successfully, with little effort.
Then came the downside. Various non-gaming important-for-work sites began freaking out that I was logging in from unknown locations. Security measures kicked in on those sites and our network - and for the last 24 hours, I've been working out the kinks and crooks of this mess. I've gotten back to a semblance of stability, but OMGosh, what a PITElbow! These work sites have never reacted to the VPN in this manner before. I'm baffled.
Who knew attempting to deal with such a seemingly simple part of this game could cause total - and I mean TOTAL - chaos in the real world!"