Error [2002] the lobby server connection has encountered an error

[Feldspar17]

Does Charter not service your complex? It does with mine, and I'd like to know if anyone with that ISP is experiencing these problems. I had massive lag issues with FiOS after patch 2.1 launched and if this ISP is going to give me continued headaches, I may just up and switch despite getting a decent deal on fast speeds.

I'll have to check again. When we moved in they said FIOS or nothing, but that may have changed or they may have been wrong. I've been considering upping to Quantum for the extra $10 a month, but with this crap happening, you may be right that Charter would be a better bet.

Wait I have to pay for a one time password?!

You shouldn't have to. You can just activate the two-step authentication on your account and then download the SE authenticator app on your smartphone if you have one. Then you just run that app every time you need to log in. That's what I do, and it gives me no grief about logging in on two different PCs on two different networks regularly.

[Jousha]

May as well jump on the Verizon dog pile

DFW - Verizon Fios
Excalibur

Server error starting on 2/24

[Aevis]

Also with Verizon in DFW. This is the second day that this has been happening for me.

EDIT: just installed spotflux and it let me log in. This is a little ridiculous.

[Sophrosune]

Add on another: Texas, Verizon. 2/24

Able to play on the JP servers but not my own. Been going on since yesterday for both myself and my husband. I've put in a ticket but I don't expect an answer anytime soon and am not optimistic that it will solve this issue. We're going to try Spotflux because it's his two days off and we're trying to level together to catch up to our friends. ><

Is anyone aware if SE has any idea if this is going on for so many people?


Note: Spotflux just let my husband on, I am DLing it now. Other than changing your password, this is a painless solution to a problem that we're not entirely sure is even being addressed.

[ivy_anne]

So if I install this spotflux, if/when the issue finally gets fixed, do I just uninstall? Sorry, if that seems self explanatory...

Also, Verizon has a huge monopoly over a large portion of the DFW area. I can't even get DISH at my complex... Verizon or bust.

[Ixaera]

Also in DFW w/ FiOS - reporting in with the same 2002 error. Seems I can connect to JP data centers, but not Primal (where my server is). Error 2002 over 24 hours now.

[Brashe]

Find it hard to believe this is a Verizon issue when this error has been encountered by users all over since the game was released.

I have to ask why I can log into other data centers and create characters and play but not the data center where my character is. Seems like if it was my ISP (I also use FIOS) I would not be able to log in anywhere.

[Rolfgar]

DFW/FiOS as well...

Getting 2002 every time, except not just when I try and log into a NA data center...I can just sit at data center select long enough and get the 2002 error and get booted.

[punitenshu]

Yeah, as long as it wants to connect to an NA server it'll boot you at the title screen.

Someone mentioned also having problems with YouTube earlier in the thread as well, and figured I'd point out that I just noticed YouTube is sporadicallybehaving oddly for me as well. Some videos don't load at all (except for advertisements) and I get a general error message after 15 seconds or so in the player. For some reason if I drag the bar though, the video will suddenly buffer for a moment and then actually play, but then it seems to eventually reach the end of the buffered chunk and dies out.

Haven't had much time to mess with it, nor do I care to do so since it's inconsistent, but was wondering if others with the DFW 2002 Error problem were having similar problems at all.

[Kitheren]

I'm having the same issue. I can connect to JP or EU servers but neither NA ones. DFW (carrollton) with FiOS. Youtube has been poop all day long on my pc and mobile while connected to wifi (haven't tried without though). Websites are loading slow and my speeds are way down according to speedtest.net. Its comforting to see so many other DFW players having issues meaning it looks more and more like it's Verizon..

Sitting on the phone with them at the moment though I doubt they'll give us any real answers other than "oh it's the other guy's fault".