Im having the same problem. It could be a temporary thing (just discovered it a few minutes ago, thats why im on this forum, to solve it). Oh well, on to the technical forum

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Read it!!! Who needs a global? I don't.

Thanks Nog, but take into consideration not every person on the planet with FL is inclined to utilize ASE. Like me for instance.

I have a most unusual problem all I get is message saying its waiting for the global gateway.

I use ASE or the command line switch and still no servers appear in the LAN or INTERNET view. I understand these direct connections should appear in the LAN window.

I have :-
Reinstalled Dx9a and tested direct play with friends
uninstalled, cleaned and reinstalled freelancer
reinstalled sound, network and GFX drivers (Nvidia 4.35 dets now)
no firewall is present

Yet my laptop installs it and it works fine no problem

This is not the only case of this on the forums, using command line or ASE does not fix it for everyone.

As far as I can tell Freelancer is not even attempting to connect to the network.

Spent 40mins on the phone with Microsoft UK today, finally getting through to someone who can at least speak knowledgably about XP and how it works. I await a response from them.

If anyone has further suggestions I'd be most interested to hear them

Stinger: I know that, but you may want to consider this.

ASE makes it's own server lists and uses 6 globals to do it, meaning there is never a problem with server listing, even if one of theirs crashes.

ASE can update the entire list and poll all of the servers in about 10 seconds for broadband players. No more waiting for minutes for Freelancer to fully update the server list to see if a sever actually is full or not.

ASE gives you information such as total hops, ping fluxuations, and can poll a full server till it has an open slot and fire up FL automatically.

ASE tells you what nation the server is located in.

What wil happen in the future for FL support:

The ability to configure ASE to hunt for servers running mods such as the Babylon 5 mod.

The ability to view server news panels before entering the game.

The ability to poll for machine and connections specs.

Even if you don't normally use ASE, I can say one thing that makes it a invaluble
tool to have.

Less than 8 hours after ASE gained FL support, it proved it's worth by being able to get a server list, ping it, and succesfully get freelancer to connect to an internet server, all while Microsoft's global was down and out for the count .

I highly reccomend tools like ASE and Game Spy, simply because they stomp in-game browsers into the ground. It up to the user to use them.