borntobesting: May be hard wired but he still has to have a modem. And at times the modem needs to be restarted. I was having the same problem yesterday and I restarted my modem. After the modem restart the game loaded as fast as always
I'm very happy that worked for you.
It did not work for my friend. He has restarted his modem multiple times. He called his ISP, who did a complete reset of his modem remotely. He said his internet speed has never been better after that. It works fine when he does iRacing and goes to other web sites. But last night, even after all that, he was not able to get in again.
The fact that it is happening to multiple players, on all platforms (PC, Mac, Steam, mobile), and ONLY when launching the WGT app, points to something on WGT's side. Again, I've told them exactly where to look to find the problem. All they have to do is look there.
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EDIT: He was finally able to get in and play around 9:00pm CST tonight. No changes made on his end.