Author Topic: udp loss (Read 968 times)

jaxxo · « **on:** January 12, 2008, 12:58:41 PM »

cant get into purple orange or blue arenas...all the others work fine...get instant udp loss switch to tcp...than game just sits doing nothing, net status flatlined.....

turned off almost all my services, nuthin changed....anyone else have this?

Skuzzy · « **Reply #1 on:** January 12, 2008, 01:32:14 PM »

Just tried all the arenas from the house and connected up just fine.

Anti-virus? Norton Security? Behind a router?

jaxxo · « **Reply #2 on:** January 12, 2008, 03:29:31 PM »

yeah im beinhd a router linkys...ill try disconnecting it...kinda weird i can get into some arena and not others..all the Norton stuff turned off though

jaxxo · « **Reply #3 on:** January 12, 2008, 04:04:09 PM »

thats some sneaky stuff by norton..i enable everything and now im connecting fine..any suggestions besides getting rid of it?

jaxxo · « **Reply #4 on:** January 12, 2008, 04:06:38 PM »

i take that back it worked momentarily now same stuff happening

jaxxo · « **Reply #5 on:** January 12, 2008, 04:18:14 PM »

uninstalled norton...no joy

same stuff..can log into da..ta..axis and allies...both ma's and purple still say "udp loss..switch to tcp" than host connection lost

TwinBoom · « **Reply #6 on:** January 12, 2008, 04:25:50 PM »

u have to configure your router open ports 2000 through 6000
aloww it acess

Roscoroo · « **Reply #7 on:** January 13, 2008, 03:11:33 AM »

yep allow aceshigh 2000-6000 for your pc's ip in the linksys routor.

beshure its password protected too .

(it happens to me when ever the power goes out ..or i roll my networks ip's )

rogerdee · « **Reply #8 on:** January 13, 2008, 11:41:24 AM »

my squad mate got a problem in that he can only get in the blue arena and other arena and he gets booted,

no router a stright dsl conction

only been happening since last server upgrade

jaxxo · « **Reply #9 on:** January 13, 2008, 08:39:54 PM »

i dont think ports are the prob...if i click on the arena long enuff eventually ill get a good conection..takes about 6 or 7 trys

Skuzzy · « **Reply #10 on:** January 14, 2008, 06:29:53 AM »

I would really like to find ouot what is causing this. Not having direct control over the computersm which are having this problem, and they are a small group makes it difficult.

What triggered it is more than likely the added ports and new IP address the server has.

This suggests firewall, or anit-virus. Possibly the ISP blocking a specific set of ports. It could be security software. By the way, Norton and McAfee patch the Windows kernel as part of thier installation. Once that patch is done, it cannot be undone. Removing the software does not remove the patch.

That aside, it would interesting to see what commonalities there are in these systems, if any.

I cannot duplicate this issue no matter when I try or where I try from (home or work). It is not the server itself causing this. If it was, it would effect everyone equally.

jaxxo · « **Reply #11 on:** January 14, 2008, 11:12:48 AM »

all this happened after my latest Norton update ... just fyi

Skuzzy · « **Reply #12 on:** January 14, 2008, 12:10:01 PM »

It would not surprise me if Norton is the culprit. I know Norton, when running under Vista, will in fact block the game from acessing the servers and there is not a setting anywhere in Norton that allows it the game to work correctly. That's under Vista.

The only option Vista users have is to remove Norton and, in some case, ac omplete re-install of the operating system is required to get things working correctly again.

jaxxo · « **Reply #13 on:** January 14, 2008, 10:54:50 PM »

well I have xp home...isopening the ports 2000-6000 the fix?

Skuzzy · « **Reply #14 on:** January 15, 2008, 05:51:23 AM »

The game uses a subset of ports in the range of 2000-6000 for both UDP and TCP. Depending on your firewall/router then you might have to do that.

It used to be 2000-5000.