Why Can't I connect to Pokerstars?

Why Can't I connect to Pokerstars? I opened poker tracker and closed it and I can't log on pokerstars. I just downloaded pokerstars and yesterday it connected but sometimes it does/doesn't. Really skeptical on putting some of my FT bankroll on a client that doesn't even connect properly. It will connect some time and other times it will say connecting. I took down firewall is it my router?

I have no problems connecting. Not sure what to tell ya probably on your end though.

any tips from anyone FT works obviously it sometimes connects and loads the games and other times stalls at connecting screen

i dont know what time you tried to log on but at some point they were doing service maintenence.

7AM EST yesterday.

Mail support. It might be a router/firewall issue or something, but Stars support is better qualified to give you an answer than we are.

where are you from cougar? if you use a router for your connection that is sure not the problem... it can give a bit of lagging but only a few seconds .. or may be you can get disconnected but after it must reconnect.... prolly is your firewall or the firewall of your security suite if you have one on your pc... if you have norton and you installed the client after norton try to disable real time protection in your antivirus or security suite and see how its goin

Try right clicking on your PS icon then click to run PS as administrator and see if that works. If not, check your firewall settings. After that, not sure so I would definitely send an email to PS support.
GL!

This is an intermittent problem which IMHO rules out the firewall, and router as culprits. And, although it's always a good thing to try, it rules out running as an adminisitrator as a solution.

It sounds to me like there might be an issue with your Internet service provider blocking or limiting access. They will do that sometimes to limit traffic or preserve bandwidth.

If you know someone else with the same service provider and a computer, you might try to see if they can install and connect to PS with more success than you are having. You need to find a way to point to or eliminate your computer as the problem.

As I am writing this another thought occurs to me. Some viruses change communication settings as a form of self defense to make it difficult to download antivirus or other software to remove them. I had a really nasty one a year or so ago that hard coded some funky IP address in my DNS configuration. It may be that your computer is infected with such a virus. No matter how good your antivirus is, it's never 100% effective.

This happened to me, and I had to call the service provider. They seem to have stopped doing it now, and I have had problem free connectivity for some months now.

The service provider (British Telecom), had implemented the limiting of specific users' badwidth whose usage was far higher than average.... probably as a means to deter piracy.

I am an avid gamer, that's why I was probably flagged.

well strange enough it works today I guess maybe maintenance

I go the same problem. But i found why quickly. I didn't played the internet in time so there is a software that blocks my connection outside from time to time making me press a button on Iexplorer after i read a message like "u have to pay for internet connection in 5 days or u will be diconnected ... bla bla bla". They want to be surre that i read the message.
I think u a problem like this. From one reason or another some of your ports are stopped by the provider.