Thanks Healix, I tried that too, but same issue. For now I wrote a short python script to run the GW2 launcher, wait 20 seconds, kill the launcher and repeat. Gets me 20MB every 20 seconds... extremely slow, but for now better then nothing; at least until Arenanet support can help me out. Would try rebooting my firewall, but the mrs is working from home, so that's not an option until later this evening. (everything else works inhouse, so I doubt it's the firewall)