I've had something similar to this happen to me a few times over the last 4 months or so. It's happened 3 - 4 times in the last week or so also. I sometimes have issues with my connection, and know what "normal" warping feels like when I play. When I'm warping, it just looks like everyone else is warping around me, but I seem to be flying normally. I just re-log and it seems to fix itself usually.
But, this other event is different. The first time it happened, i was in auto-climb, and just sittin' back watching, and talking on vox. I was roughly 2k AGL, at about 180 MPH. All of a sudden, my plane started to rapidly, but smoothly accelerate. The dials started spinning around rapidly, but still seemed to be reading what I would assume was accurately. I'd say I was moving at about 1500MPH, still in a climb. In maybe 5 seconds I was at like 50,000 feet AGL. That time I lost Host Connect, and when I came back in, all was fine. Vox still worked. Several times last week I had it happen to me while flying/fighting. When it happens then, I speed way up, like over 1000 MPH, and the controls get so sensitive I lose control, and auger. It just turns into a massive over-control fest in roll, and I wobble in left/right rolls until I hit the ground. No compression of control surfaces like I'd expect at that speed though, and the wind noise stays the same. Vox still functions normally here too, it seems. I don't lose Host Connection in these instances, but I re-log anyway, so it hopefully won't happen again.
The last time it happened, I was in auto-level omw to an enemy base to furball. Smooth rapid acceleration to like 1500 MPH, alt stayed the same, flew right past all the friendlies, and in about 2 seconds I moved more than a sector. Then it went away, and I flew normally again. But I was still like a sector further ahead then I should have been. The funny thing is, I can still see/hear everyone around me, and they seem to be flying normally, not disappearing or warping like they do when I get glitches in my connect. Usually I lose vox when I get those glitches too, if only for a few seconds.
I've been chalking them up to my dial-up connection, and quitting the game to restart my connection, hoping to get it back to normal.
My internet dial-up always shows as between 48.6, and 50.2 on a 56k modem. My ping time when I log in says 175 to 235 normally.
When I bring up net status on the clipboard, the top line is just a squiggly line right in the middle of the center line, less than 1/32 inch tall, with really no hitches in it. The bottom line is about 1/4 inch tall, made up of vertical up/down slashes, and stays that way. I've been assuming that this is a good connection.
When I get glitches the line on the top jumps all over the place, bottoming out on the top and bottom, and is bad like this for 15-20 seconds, seems like. This is when I lose the TCP/UDP thing, but everything stabilizes itself after that, with no loss of Host Connect. I get this glitch every single time I play within 5 - 10 minutes of logging on, usually as I fly toward the nearest fight.
I have no access to high speed internet where I live, and likely won't for several years. I could get satelite internet, but they want $600 for install, and $60 a month after that. That ain't happenin'.
This is not a complaint, just relating the problem as I've experienced it. Like I said, I think it has something to do with my connect.
This weekend, my connect was terrible, and I kept getting booted from the MA. My Net Status was making regular spikes like a heart-monitor, and I chalked it up to bad internet, and was quite irked. I had the speed-up thing happen several times. I ended up updating my Spyware detecter, and found another spy in my system. I deleted it, and my connect went back to normal, with no more speed-ups yet. It very likely could have been that.
