Trouble connecting to login

[Walzmyn]

OK.
For somereason, I cannot use EQW, but am managing to get the game client running just fine running it normally. I have changed my eqhost.txt file to what is recommended on the forums here
[Registration Servers]
{
"209.172.32.20:5999"
}
[Login Servers]
{
"209.172.32.20:5997"
}
and it is set to being "read only"

However, when I go into the game and try to login, I ony get a timeout. (It works when I try to connect to "real" eq's server, although I don't have an account)
[insert, friend just asked for more info] I never se a server select screen. I see the login screen. When I hit "enter" it sits for several seconds and then a bubble pops up and says "a time out has occured"

I have ensured that the proper ports are open in winders, and my DSL modem and I have bypassed my router, just in case. I can ping the server itself from the command line and get a good ping, so I'm thinking it's the ports or something else.

Anybody got any ideas how I can get past this and into the game?

 

[Walzmyn]

Just to close the loop, I got this problem solved. I ran the patcher to do a complete re-patch. I had done this before but it had not worked. Buddy of mine said there had just been some new patches put up, maybe that did the trick, I do not know. Anyway, I'm in now.

To give a bit of info so the next newbie might know where they stand: When everything was not working I was getting a login screen with a cute elven chick on it. Now that it is working I am getting a screen with a guy throwing an axe. When it was not working the game client was letting me click and go past all the splash screen stuff at the beginning, now with it working, I have to wait on that junk to float by.

Just thought I would add that so someone else can know if they have the right stuff downloaded and patched up or not.