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Hello all! Let me start by saying I'm brand new to the forums. I ran a search for threads with the same issue, but could not find anything. If I missed something, please direct me to the appropriate place.

I am having a great deal of trouble getting Guild Wars 2 running. Playonmac and wine appear to have installed fine, but the game will not connect to the servers so I can begin installing/playing the game. It just says "Downloading 0(0kbps)" For a while before reading "Connection error(s) detected. Retrying..."