Hi there, I'm new to this. I've read alot of info on these forums the past several days to get primed and ready to go.

First: the problem. I cannot get both WoW clients to connect to the same realm at the same time. I'm not sure if this is a blizzard problem or not. I *CAN* get both wows connected to different realms, and either wow will connect to my desired server if it is the only one I'm attempting to connect to that server.

In other words, I can get WOW1 to connect to Shadowsong fine, but then WOW2 no matter how many times I try keeps coming back to the realm list after about 30 seconds. If I switch realms or close WOW1, then after about 5 or 6 additional tries on WOW2 it will connect to Shadowsong. Now I try to connect WOW1 to Shadowsong again, no go even if I try several (read: 20+) times, it keeps coming back to the realm list.

My setup, since I know you're going to ask:

One PC. Two copies of WoW in separate folders. WinXP Pro SP3. No junction links, two entirely separate copies of the game.
Two WOW accounts

Here may be the issue: they're both linked together under a battle.net account. This cannot be undone, and I did this in the past without thinking it may affect my future plans to dual-box.


Does anybody have any clue? Anybody else experiencing this? Is it a blizzard problem? I'm of the mindset it might be, since the other night I had the same issue (albeit less severe) when running just one wow client. It just would not connect to certain realms, until I tried several times after being punted back to the realm list.


Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks