Private proxies enabled and good? YES
Captcha Balance: 5000
Human Emulation: set low...but not too low

ETA on KEI check for 1321 key phrases? I'm at 5 1/2 hrs for 788 checked.

Oh yeah, I'm still getting temporary blocks by Google.

What is the deal?

Brian

Are you using the Google Datacenter rotation in Preferences -> Search safety settings? Try turning that option off and see if the check goes faster. What are your exact Human Emulation settings by the way?

Tried it this way, doesn't work.
Why don't you guys do it the way you can do it in the google keyword tool, where you can just copy paste it in the required field, and get results in one second?

Brian, you say you've got your own proxies that you keep using within the tool. And AFTER that you say you're getting blocks.

So, what's the problem? AFAIK (and I'm sure you can check it via any kind of a traffic sniffer) the only thing the tools does is sending HTTP requests to Google through your proxies (at a level speed you can set up in Human Emulation). After that your proxies get blocked by Google.

See?.. YOUR private proxies are being blocked by GOOGLE. And I'm sure you cannot blame neither this tool nor anyone else of being bad simply because it's a deal between YOU and GOOGLE. Just as I said, the tool simply does the dirty job for you. Google blocks you proxies. Your proxies are blocked by Google. What's wrong with the tool here?

So, GOOGLE wants YOU to use more proxies, or YOU may simply ask the great and mighty GOOGLE not to ban YOUR PROXIES (not sure they care about you though ). Believe me, Google doesn't even know you're using Rank Tracker, the only thing it is aware about are your GREAT PROXIES.

So bro, calm down and don't say the tool is bad simply because you cannot set it up correctly. I personally like the tool very much

::UPDATE::

Here's the problem, rank checking, though slow is working. I'm getting ranking position and competition data but I'm not getting KEI or # of searches data.

I've even reloaded RT.

Do you have your Google AdWords account entered in Preferences -> Google Account Settings? Please enter one, preferably get an account using your Gmail account, Google AdWords keyword tool works better that way lately.

Agreed!

What use to take minutes, now takes hours. This is so frustrating as I also rely on this tool daily for my business

Google AdWords had a limit on around a dozen keywords to be checked at once for some time. Right now the limit is removed and we're releasing an update that will be sending keywords in groups of 50 to AdWords, so things should speed up.

We're in fact doing the best we can to make things quick and easy but there are constraints as we're working with other data sources, some of them as dynamic as Google's services. So sometimes there are temporary issues like that.

Yes, adwords account enabled. # of searches still returning 0

Hi! I am experiencing same issue too. I created new google adwords account to resolve the forbidden status but now getting 0 for searches.