'Retrying to Authenticate' only on Oceanic hosts

[Banicks 55]

I receive the 'Retrying to Authenticate' message whenever I attempt to connect to an Australian/New Zealand server.

I can join the LA/US servers almost immediately within the same minute of abandoning my failing join attempt.

Is there an issue going on here with communication between oceanic server hosts and the central database?

If not, I'm using Steam copy of Arma 2 - Combined Operations. Just can't pinpoint why this is occuring only for my local servers.

[lvg 1690]

Are you using the beta?

[Banicks 55]

No - 5 chars

[Dr Device 0]

I have the same problem, running off steam installs of CO, get retrying to authenticate on Oceania servers, but can connect to US servers just fine.

[lvg 1690]

No - 5 chars

You're running 5 characters?

Also try upgrading to the beta, that's the fix for most join problems.

[ReploidGodX 0]

as LVG has said you need to run the beta Arma 2 Patch, you can't just install it either you have to find the shortcut in the game directory afterwards that says "launch Arma2 OA beta patch". use that from then on, regardless of where you bought your game.