connecting to silkroad problems

[nishiki]

ok, i have trouble connecting on to silkroad. i just 1st dl the game like 3 three days ago from fileshach and when i was done dl, i cliked on the silkroad icon, but it said "the server is in examination or out of working time", then a page with the words "option, guide, movie, exit, and a little box with nothing in it, popped up. so i was like w/e and just left it alone. then i tried it agian the next day. i tried it like 20 times and it still didnt wrk so i asked a bunch of ppl i knew. they gave me all these suggestions like turn off ure firewall, download bunch of stuff and all these other suggestions. none of them wrked. so plz if u no anything about this, plz help me out. plz!!!!

[Aquilus]

From the error message it seems like the server is down.
Just wait till it's up again, check their website for more info.