Loosing UDP/ then booting

[flyingaround]

for the past 24-48 hours I have lost UDP, and then booted from the MA EVERY 5-45 min.

After around 6 boots on Wed afternoon in an hour 1/2 ish, I called Skuzzy, and asked re. the AH server status.  He checked, and said it was fine.  We chatted re. my udp issue, and all he could come up with was that possibly my IP is getting hammered by a p2p kazaa type issue (I neither have nor use kazaa or any other p2p) and maybe I was assigned an IP from someone that was doing alot of p2p downloading.

Called my cable internet provider, and found I have had the same IP since march 04, and everything looked great.   Wanting to eliminate all options, so I changed my network hardware (Installed a USB nic card that caused my Inter. Prov. to issue me a brand new IP) logged into AH, and was promply booted. (yes i know usb nic cards bad for gaming, was just ruling out MY IP being the issue)

Hmmm...  getin' ticked at this point.

Installed old nic card back and started checkin' off what possibly could be wrong.  Did the basics, removed / reinstalled sound/video drivers (I used driver cleaner, and took all the proper steps), reinstalled DX and that didn't help.

Tried it with/without firewall installed.  That didn't help.

FINALLY just said heck with it, formated the whole thing, and now, after a clean intstall, with nothing BUT windows and AH on my computer I lost udp and was booted 5min upon entering the MA.  (yes all the lastest drivers, all sound video settings set to what skuzzy suggested, and I was usin' anyway).

WTF is going on??  I've run out of options here.  I'm login' now to run a ping plotter, (again) and rule THAT out (Again).

Getin' very, very frustrated with it all.  Skuzzy, are you SURE it's not on your end?  100% sure?

(edited)  just ran ping plotter and that darn chicago savis hop is givin' me 11% to 33% packet loss.  ARRRGGHHH.  Who do I complain to????

(edited, edited) odly enough, pinging the ah server from dos gives me zero packet loss.  Lute starting to lose it.  MUST have AH fix!!

[Schutt]

With internet there is not only two ends, there are tons of swiches between.

So when your provider got some trouble in the swiches, or any of the swiches that are between your provider and ht run nuts, then that can happen without a problem on your side or hts side.

[Skuzzy]

Like I said on the phone, that Chicago route is taking a beating with all the damage to the south U.S. telecommunications network from the hurricanes.
Mother nature has not been kind this year.

[flyingaround]

WHO do I organize my local senior citizens into a letter writing frenzy against?  FEAR the AARP!  We'll flood the suckers with bags of mail moist with tuna drippings and Depend leaks.

STILL mad I can't fly.

I'll give it another day or two to work itself out, then I unleash the geezers.

[flyingaround]

After many days of frustration, I THINK I have fixed my constant UDP losses and boots.  

Stupid cable modem was bad.   ISP tech came out, and they warrantied my 3yr old busted, can't remember WHERE I even got it modem, for a brand new one.  Don't quite know how or why, but new one is free so WOOT.

Variance flat, as is my host que time.  Que time was generally in a zig zag from 0 to 7 ish, but now it's almost dead flat at zero.

I THINK my nightmare is finally over.

[MOSQ]

I was having similar problems a year ago after the switch from ATTBI to Comcast in our area. The fix was a new Motorola Surfboard modem.

Next, I was having similar problems a few months ago. After much frustration I replaced my very old (5 years) Linksys Router with a NetGear. Problem Fixed !

The Linksys had served me well through 3 years of Air Warrior and 2+ years here, but apparently it was failing.

Maybe Skuzzy should add a couple of lines to his connection sticky along the lines of "If your connection has been good for years, but you are now having lost UDP problems, your cable modem or router may be failing."

Can routers slowly fail? I don't know for sure. Usually electronic stuff works perfect or not at all. But the change of routers certainly was the fix for me.